Zion Canyon Field Institute will present their centennial film series "A Century of Cinema" starting on August 13, 2009. It will run for ten weeks with showings every Thursday night at 7:30 pm at the Canyon Community Center in Springdale, Utah. Admission is free.

The series will focus on films made within Zion National Park. It kicks off with a lecture by Dr. James D’Arc, the Curator of the Brigham Young University Motion Picture Archive. Dr. D’Arc will speak about the history and context of those films made in Zion over the years.

FILMS TO BE SCREENED:

Ramrod - 1947

In Old Arizona - 1929

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 1969

Jeremiah Johnson - 1972

Eiger Sanction - 1975

Electric Horseman - 1979

Child Bride of Short Creek - 1981

Desperate Hours - 1990

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico - 1997