GET LAMP screening in Chicago!
October 7th, 2010 § 3 Comments
The Chicago Interactive Fiction Group will be hosting director Jason Scott (@textfiles) for an hour-long screening of his new documentary GET LAMP, which explores the fascinating history of text-based adventure games in the 1980′s. This screening is part of Jason’s country-wide Jet Lamp tour.
(Jason is also well known in the geek community for his excellent BBS documentary.)
LOCATION: Google Chicago office, 20 W. Kinzie St, 8th floor, Chicago IL
TIME: Thursday, October 21, 2010
SCHEDULE:
- 5:30pm: doors open
- 6pm: screening begins
- 7:15pm: post-show discussion with the director
- 8:15pm: wrap-up
Google will be providing not just the screening space, but also plentiful pizza and soft drinks. Spread the word! Hope to see you there.
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I enjoyed this. Thanks to everyone who helped organize. I wrote about it afterward and tried to leave a trackback (from here) but it didn’t work.