"America's Gift to Famine-Stricken Russia" (1922) Film Screening with Live Musical Accompaniment

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Tuesday, May 2, 2023 6:00 pm PT (60 minutes) Hauck Auditorium, Traitel Building, Stanford University

Reception will follow

America's famine relief mission to Soviet Russia in 1921–22 was chronicled in photographs and motion pictures taken by Floyd Traynham, a young cameraman from Atlanta, Georgia. Traynham's films of American food being transported across the frozen Volga River and fed to hungry Russian children on the edge of starvation were shown in movie theaters across the United States. In 1922, a two-reel (22-minute) feature was compiled from Traynham's movies. This evening, that film, "America's Gift to Famine-Stricken Russia," will have its first public screening in a century.

This film screening will be accompanied by the performance of a string quartet of students from the Stanford Department of Music, with music arranged by cellist Jonathan Pak.

Commentary will be provided by Bertrand M. Patenaude, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

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