“Be thou exorcised oh Dracula, and thy body long undead find destruction throughout eternity in the name of thy dark unholy Master. In the name of the oh holiest and through this cross be the evil spirit cast out until the end of time”

DRACULA’S DAUGHTER (1936)

“Dying for Deco” - Art Deco Illustrated Presentations 2014

Saturday, October 18 - 2:00PM Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood, CA

Presented by the American Cinematheque and the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles

What was it like to be laid to rest Art Deco style? “Dying for Deco: The Funerary Extravagances of the Art Deco Period,” an hour-long lecture digs six feet under to answer that question. The 1920s and ’30s saw an overwhelming change in all of the decorative arts including such funerary decorations as caskets, hearses, head stones, cenotaphs, and mausoleums.

This illustrated presentation by former Art Deco Society of Los Angeles president Rory Cunningham will utilize images and stories of monuments honoring the departed from around the world. Historian Nathan Marsak will display part of his extensive collection of embalming fluid bottles and other funerary relics of the period. Followed by the 1936 Universal horror flick DRACULA’S DAUGHTER.

Doors open at 1:00 PM for a cake reception honoring our ancestors, who opened the Egyptian Theatre on this day in 1922.

35mm print!

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