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Reel to Real: The Making of the Gone with the Wind

May 7, 2013 – 3:00 pm

Winner of 10 Academy Awards, Gone with the Wind remains popular decades after its 1939 premiere.Hollywood’s highly romanticized movie of the “Old South”   is based on Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The true story of how Mitchell’s book became a record-breaking film is revealed in Real to Reel: The Making of Gone with the Wind, [...]

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Run of Reel to Real Exhibit Extended

January 4, 2013 – 1:04 pm

The popularity of the exhibit Real to Reel: The Making of Gone with the Wind has been so overwhelming that the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh will be extending its run through Sunday, April 14. The exhibit was originally slated to close Jan. 13, but now it will remain open three more months. Admission and [...]

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Chipmunks Take the Screen June 6

May 29, 2008 – 12:43 pm

BEAUFORT – Combine three musically inclined chipmunks with a Frustrated songwriter and you’ll get “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” the feature film on June 6 for “Cinema by the Sea.” The outdoor film series for the family, sponsored by the N.C. Maritime Museum,is offered every other Friday night this summer. Bring your blanket or chair and [...]

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Maritime Museum Film Series Begins May 23

May 16, 2008 – 4:35 pm

BEAUFORT – “Harry Potter-Order of the Phoenix,” will be the debut feature film May 23 for “Cinema by the Sea,” an outdoor film series for the family located at the North Carolina Maritime Museum’s expansion site at Gallants Channel, next to Town Creek Marina.  The series, offered every other Friday night this summer, is sponsored [...]

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Fantail Films

April 8, 2008 – 1:55 pm

The ninth annual Fantail Film Festival in Wilmington runs four Friday nights in May, and will feature movies on the big screen outside on the Battleship North Carolina’s deck (fantail), just the way her crew watched movies in the 1940s!  This year’s classic film selection celebrates the “Many Moods of Love.”  Dates are May 9, [...]

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