Looking ahead to the Fall of 2012, I will be presenting two film series with lectures, at the 92nd Street Y in Tribeca. Beginning October 2nd, and running on October 9th, 30th, and November 6th, I will be presenting The Dawn Of The Hollywood Musicals. Films in this series will include a special 85th anniversary screening of The Jazz Singer, the first film with sound sequences, starring Al Jolson, Harry Beaumont’s The Broadway Melody, from 1929, and two 1933 musicals: Robert S. Leonard’s Dancing Lady, starring Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Nelson Eddy, the Three Stooges, and Fred Astaire (in his film debut); and lloyd Bacon’s Footlight Parade, featuring the dream like musical numbers of Busby Berkeley. Then, beginning on November 13, and running also on November 20th, 27th, December 4th, and 18th, I will be presenting RKO 1935: The Great Films, which focuses on the milestone films released at the studio in that year: Astaire and Rogers in Mark Sandrich’s Top Hat, John Ford’s The Informer, Ernest Schoesdack and Merian C. Cooper’s Last Days of Pompeii, Lansing C. Holden and Irving Pichel’s She, and George Stevens’ Alice Adams. Registration has just begun for the Fall semester, at 92nd Street Y Tribeca.