The Nitrate Picture Show

Goodbye, and thank you for attending this year’s Nitrate Picture Show! It was an unforgettable time, and we hope you enjoyed our program as much as we loved bringing it to you.

Please join us next year for our 11th Nitrate Picture Show, taking place June 3–6, 2027!

📸 Publicity still for GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933, Eastman Museum, Stills, Posters, and Paper Collections

Scenes from Day One of the 10th Nitrate Picture Show 👉

📷 Jackie Photography

Collection Manager Deborah Stoiber and Associate Collection Manager Kirk McDowell rehearse for live gramophone accompaniment during the 10th Nitrate Picture Show.

Classic 78 rpm records will be played live on an antique Victor Talking Machine Co. Model VIC-1 phonograph, commonly called a gramophone, alongside a vintage nitrate print.

But what film will they be accompanying? Find out when titles are announced on Thursday, June 4!

Our thanks to the Antique Wireless Association Communication Technologies Museum for making this first-of-its-kind screening possible through the loan of this remarkable, well-preserved, and fully functional piece of antique sound technology.

Only one week until the curtain rises on the 10th Nitrate Picture Show! Our final waitlist offers will be going out in the next few days. If you are not able to secure a pass to all screenings, we encourage interested attendees to check our webpage for the film schedule next Thursday, then come to the box office for single tickets before each showtime. These will be sold based on seating availability once all passholders have been seated. Purchasing is not guaranteed.

If you have already purchased a pass and cannot make it to the festival this year, please contact us via phone or email by May 29 and we will process your refund and make room for someone off the waitlist!

These are once-in-a-lifetime screenings, and we do not want to leave a single vacant seat if we can help it!

📸 Publicity still for ON WITH THE SHOW (1929), Eastman Museum, Stills, Posters, and Paper Collections.