Coolidge Corner Theatre presents Science on Screen Jr.
| Hours: | Hours Vary see below |
| Ages: | Kids, Teens |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | $ see below |
| Category: | Learn Something |
It's a morning of classic animated shorts featuring America's favorite wabbit and friends, plus a fun, kid-friendly physics presentation by Harvard University professor Melissa Franklin.
Aimed at children ages 5 to 10, Science on Screen Jr. is an extension of the Coolidge's acclaimed Science on Screen program, which promotes public understanding of science and technology through the magic of cinema.
Science on Screen Jr. creatively pairs family-friendly films with hands-on activities and lively introductions by scientists.
About the film
Looney Tunes, the indelible series of short cartoon films produced by Warner Bros.
from 1930 to 1969, helped define the golden age of American animation, introducing audiences to a cast of unforgettable characters: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Tweety and Sylvester, Marvin the Martian, and many others.
Propelled by anvil drops, Acme rockets, and an endless supply of inspired zaniness, Looney Tunes and its companion series Merrie Melodies reigned for two decades as the most popular animated shorts in movie theaters.
Our line-up of nine Looney Tunes classics features One Froggy Evening, Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century, and other favorites.
About the speaker
Melissa Franklin, the first female tenured faculty member in Harvard University's department of physics, is an experimental particle physicist who studies hadron collisions produced by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with the Collider Detector Facility and the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.
She works in a collaboration of more than 600 international physicists who discovered the top quark at CDF, and 3,000 physicists at ATLAS, where she studies particle interactions and symmetries at the highest energies now available.
Professor Franklin, born and raised in Canada, received her B.Sc.
from the University of Toronto and her Doctorate from Stanford University.
She worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois in Champagne/Urbana, and was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard, before joining the Harvard faculty in 1989.
| HOURS | ↑ top |
10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Doors open at 9:30, presentation begins at 10, movie begins at 10:30
| COST | ↑ top |
$5
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
www.coolidge.org/films/science-screen-jr-presents-looney-tunes
| LOCATION | ↑ top |
290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA, 02446 map
Phone: 617–734–2501
From Mass Pike, I-90 East (Newton and points West): Take exit 18 Allston/Brighton. As you exit tolls, stay to left for Allston exit and merge with Cambridge Street. Follow until you reach Harvard Avenue on your left, after the overpass turn left at the 'Pizzeria Regina' sign. Take the left onto Harvard Avenue and follow through Allston and across Commonwealth Avenue, continuing for about 1.5 miles. Just before reaching the major intersection of Harvard and Beacon Street, you will notice our giant theatre marquee on your right.
From Mass Pike, I-90 West (Boston): Take exit 20 Brighton/Cambridge. As you exit tolls, keep to your right around the off-ramp for Cambridge Street. Follow until you reach Harvard Avenue on your left, after the overpass turn left at the 'Pizzeria Regina' sign. Take the left onto Harvard Avenue and follow through Allston and across Commonwealth Avenue, continuing for about 1.5 miles. Just before reaching the major intersection of Harvard and Beacon Street, you will notice our giant theatre marquee on your right.
From Interstate 93: Take the Storrow Drive exit and follow to Storrow Drive. Take Storrow Drive to the Kenmore Square exit. As the exit splits, stay in the right hand lane. Take the first right onto Beacon Street. Follow Beacon Street through Kenmore Square (past the legendary Citgo sign), staying in the center lane. After you cross the overpass, keep going straight ahead, following the trolley tracks along Beacon Street until you reach the intersection of Beacon and Harvard Street, landmarked by a large Tudor style building with a clock tower (and a Walgreens) on the corner. You'll see us one half block up Harvard, but continue on Beacon to Center Street and turn right to access our parking lot behind the building.
From Route 9: Route 9 inbound to the Brookline Village/Harvard Street intersection. The Brookline fire station is on your right. Go through the intersection and take a right immediately after the fire station, and loop around the back. You can now turn right and cross back over Route 9 onto Harvard Street. Follow Harvard Street through Brookline Village, about one mile to Beacon Street. Cross Beacon Street and you will immediately see our marquee on your left. Parking is along Beacon, or go around the block and enter the lot behind our building on Centre Street.
Parking
Nearby metered public parking is available behind the theatre (on Centre Street one block from Harvard Street) and along Beacon Street. Meters are free after 8:00pm and on Sundays and holidays. Please note that the lots tend to fill up on weekends or during large events, so please plan a little extra time to find space. We strongly recommend public transit for events and films you anticipate will be very busy! Additional parking at an hourly rate is available across Beacon and Centre Streets at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel garage on Webster Street.
Public Transportation
By train: take the Green Line (C branch to Cleveland Circle) trolley from downtown to Coolidge Corner via Beacon Street. The Coolidge Corner stop is at Harvard Street, 5-10 minutes from Kenmore Square.
By bus: take bus #66, Dudley/Harvard Square. All buses and trolleys stop at the Harvard Street/ Beacon Street intersection.
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