“When is The Field Museum Screening Free Movies?” by S.M. O’Connor

The Field Museum of Natural History will host a free outdoor screening of The LEGO® Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) later this month and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Men in Black next month as part of the Fossils & Flicks series. These events pair a theatrical feature film with a short educational film on a scientific topic. “Fossils & Flicks: Lego Movie 2” will be on Wednesday, June 26, 2019, which is also one of the Illinois Resident Free Days that week.

EVENT SCHEDULE

Film	Date
Fossils & Flicks: Lego Movie 2	Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Fossils & Flicks: Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse	Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Fossils & Flicks: Men in Black	Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Fossils & Flicks: *A Bug’s Life*	Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Fossils & Flicks: *Toy Story*	Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Fossils & Flicks: Bee Movie	Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Fossils & Flicks: Finding Dory	Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Fossils & Flicks: *Frozen*	Wednesday, August 14, 2019

The events will be from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., with the screening starting at 7:00 p.m. Films from Men in Black to A Bug’s Life are screened on The Field Museum’s northeast terrace as part of the Fossils & Flicks series. Family-friendly activities include a specimen cart, a hands-on “Dino Dig” (simulated paleontological dig), and lawn game.

Fossils & Flicks events are free. Registration is not required. If one has a question, one should call (312) 665-7600.

The Field Green Bar & Grill offers food and drinks for purchase, including The Field Museum’s own Tooth & Claw brew and handmade pizzas. No outside food or beverage is allowed at the event. At the end of the evening, guests are welcome to view the Navy Pier fireworks display after each movie.

The Field Museum has over 30,000,000 artifacts and specimens. Over 150 scientists, conservators, and collections staff members work there.

The address is 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605. The phone number is (312) 922-9410. The Website U.R.L. is https://www.fieldmuseum.org/.

The Field Museum of Natural History in March, 2018

The Field Museum of Natural History’s entrance pavilions are at opposite ends of Stanley Field Hall, which has a north-south axis. The two porticos (porches) are each reached by two successive flights of stairs.

Both porticos of The Field Museum of Natural History are flanked by two small porches, which each have two caryatids (columns in the shape of maidens). On the facade, the wings are adorned with a colonnade of attached fluted Ionic columns. The building’s fluted Ionic columns have volutes (spiral-scroll-shaped crowns).

Each portico of The Field Museum is tetrastyle in antis with double-ranked fluted Ionic columns capped by volutes. An entablature crowned by a pediment rests atop the columns. The continuous frieze in each case is relatively plain. The wave-themed acroteria that crown the pediments are borrowed from the Palace of a Fine Arts, which housed The Field Museum until 1920 and now houses the Museum of Science and Industry.

The Field Museum of Natural History isn’t “just” a museum. Visitors can watch scientists at work through windows at the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice DNA Discovery Center’s Pritzker Laboratory.

Mrs. Charles (Laura) Schweppe, a daughter and co-heiress of John Graves Shedd, the former partner of Marshall Field I who succeeded him as president of Marshall Field & Company, and who, under the guidance of Stanley Field founded the Shedd Aquarium, donated an exhibit of 100 bronze sculptures by Malvina Hoffman to The Field Museum. They represent every race, nation, and tribe in the human family (more or less). On January 9, 1933, the first group, Unity of Man, went on display.

In addition to the four figures Henry Hering (1874-1949) made for the corners of Stanley Field Hall, he also made the twelve plaster round lion head shield escutcheons that line it. These are replicas of the marble round lion head shield escutcheon he made for the pediment of the facade of The Field Museum of Natural History.

Christmas at Chicago’s Union Station

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a POLAR EXPRESS display in the Great Hall of Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a closeup of the THE POLAR EXPRESS steam locomotive mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is the headlamp of THE POLAR EXPRESS steam locomotive mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This Union Station Company rail car loaded with super-size gifts is part of THE POLAR EXPRESS mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a Christmas tree in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This Christmas tree in the Great Hall of Union Station in downtown Chicago has emblems of Amtrak, Metra, and historic railroad companies whose routes they now operate like Burlington.

Cinemas sculptor Alfonso Iannelli (1888-1965) Helped Design

This is the Pickwick Theatre Building, an Art Deco movie palace and office building erected in downtown Park Ridge, Illinois in 1928.

The architects were Roscoe Harold Zook and William F. McCaughey. Sculptor Alfonso Iannelli, who also worked on the Adler Planetarium, contributed to this building.

In recent years, the Vlahakis family, who’ve owned the building for 50 years, have been able to turn the building into a multiplex by adding smaller theaters around the original auditorium. The latest one, with a screen four times the size of the one in the auditorium, will open in time to screen INFINITY WARS in May, if all goes well.

The Catlow Movie Theater is a cinema that opened in downtown Barrington, Illinois in 1927. The Tudor Revival style of architecture is not confined to the facade of the cinema. As with the Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge, Illinois, sculptor Alfonso Iannelli (1888-1965) played a role in the design and decoration of The Catlow Movie Theater.