In 1917 Mary Day Lee was the first woman in New York City to receive a projectionist’s license, and

In 1917 Mary Day Lee was the first woman in New York City to receive a projectionist’s license, and she worked for the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences! The parent institution of Brooklyn Museum, BAM, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Children’s Museum, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (BIAS) was at the forefront of displaying motion pictures, what we today call movies or films. In fact, the first public demonstration of Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope took place at the BIAS Physics Department’s monthly meeting in May of 1893. Shortly thereafter in 1896 BIAS screened the Lumière brothers’ iconic Lumière Workers Leaving the Factory, The Baby’s Breakfast, and the Train Arrival at Ciotat.Mary Day Lee continued this prestigious start by showing educational films at the Children’s Museum. In 1917 the construction of an up to date, soundproof projection booth allowed her to screen titles such as Our Ice Supply, How Plants are Born, Riding School at Saumur, Potters of the Nile, and many others. Our film program is still alive and is thriving under the direction of our Public Programming staff. 101 years after Mary Day Lee became NYC’s first woman to be a licensed projectionist, I think it’s fitting to celebrate Women’s History month by seeing our film series Mujeres Rebeldes, which is being screened in conjunction with Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985.Posted by J.E. Molly Seegers  -- source link

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