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News & Notes — Local film found at Library of Congress

June 26, 2017
A print of the Billy B. Van movie "Where Are Your Husbands?" was recently found in a Library of Congress vault. Made on the shores of Lake Sunapee, the movie is to be screened at Dexter's Inn in Sunapee, N.H., on July 12, 2017, at 7 p.m.

After years of poking around, Hanover film archivist John Tariot tracked down Where Are Your Husbands?, a 20-minute silent film that Van made under his Georges Mills film company in 1919. The film was among a stack of unidentified reels that been sitting in Library of Congress vault in Virginia.

A print of the Billy B. Van movie “Where Are Your Husbands?” was recently found in a Library of Congress vault. Made on the shores of Lake Sunapee, the movie is to be screened at Dexter’s Inn in Sunapee, N.H., on July 12, 2017, at 7 p.m.. More information HERE