Monday, May 3, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. at Lighthouse International, 111 East 59th Street, New York

Preceded by animated short film Plane Crazy (1928)

The winner of three Academy Awards® at the very first Oscar® ceremony, including a special prize given for Unique and Artistic Picture, Sunrise tells an intense and emotional tale of seduction, betrayal and redemption in what remains one of the most technically innovative and visually stunning films ever made. It has been restored to the glory that won it the first Cinematography Academy Award, complete with the original accompanying musical score.

Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Bodil Rosing, Margaret Livingston, J. Farrell Macdonald, Ralph Sipperly, Jane Winton, Arthur Houseman, Eddie Boland, uncredited: Gibson Gowland, Sidney Bracy, Phillips Smalley, Barry Norton, Sally Eilers, Herman Bing, Gino Corrado, Bob Kortmann, Robert Parrish, Leo White. Directed by F.W. Murnau. Screenplay by Carl Mayer after Die Reise nach Tilsit by Hermann Sudermann. Produced by William Fox. Photography by Charles Rosher, Karl Struss. Assistant director and assistant to Murnau, Herman Bing. Assistant Cameramen Stuart Thompson, Hal Carney. Edited by Harold Schuster, Katherine Hilliker (uncredited). Titles by Katherine Hilliker, H.H. Caldwell. Art Director Rochus Gliese. Assistant Art Directors Edgar Ulmer, Alfred Metscher. Art Department Gordon Wiles. Comedy Consultant William Conselman. Special Effects Frank D. Williams. Synchronized Musical Score by Hugo Riesenfeld. Make-up Charles Dudley. Fox Film Corporation, 1927. Running time: 95 minutes. 35mm. Black and White. Silent. Print courtesy of Academy Film Archive.

Film restoration by: Academy Film Archive, 20th Century Fox, the British Film Institute.

Academy Award® winner: Actress (Gaynor), Cinematography (Rosher, Struss), Unique and Artistic Picture (Fox). Academy Award nominee: Art Direction (Gliese).

Plane Crazy was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon made although not released until 1928 when the soundtrack was added. Directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. 1928. Walt Disney Pictures. 6 minutes. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive and shown with permission of Walt Disney Pictures.