[APWG] Free Films in June/July: Pest Fest - Hirshorn Museum - Washington, DC

[Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov]

Ok, this isn't about plants but may interest you alien folks nonetheless 
(couldn't something similar be done for plants during Weeds Awareness 
Week?!)...

At the Hirshhorn Museum, Ring Auditorium, free

Summer Camp: PEST FEST
June 15, 2006 at 8 pm
June 29, 2006 at 8 pm
July 6, 2006 at 8 pm
Take a bite out of the summer doldrums and buzz over for Pest Fest, where 
you will be eye to compound eye with the stars of these classic camp 
features. Film scholar David Wilt will offer brief introductions to each 
of these vintage horror films from the dawn of the nuclear age. 

Them, 1954
Thursday, June 15 
Talk about your great ants! People start disappearing into a New Mexican 
desert near a site where there has been nuclear testing. Local police, the 
FBI, and specialists from the Department of Agriculture join forces to get 
to the bottom of the mystery. Gordon Douglas's classic is no picnic!

Mothra, 1961
Thursday, June 29
Ishiro Honda followed 1950s favorites Godzilla and Rodan with another 
terror in Tokyo. An expedition to a Polynesian island discovers three 
things: the island is inhabited by shipwreck survivors; the spot was a 
nuclear test site but something protected the crew from the radiation; and 
the pair of tiny, faerie-like “princesses” they find are telepathically 
connected to the behemoth, Mothra. 

Beginning of the End, 1957
Thursday, July 6
An experiment at the Department of Agriculture goes wrong and spawns a 
swarm of huge, man-eating grasshoppers that is headed for Chicago. A B-52 
bomber with an atomic load may be the last resort unless entomologist Dr. 
Ed Wainwright (Peter Graves) can save the day in what in some consider 
Bert I. Gordon's best creature feature. Print courtesy of Peter Rodgers 
Organization, Hollywood, Ca. June 15 -  Them
 
>>For more information, see Calendar of Events (left hand column) at: 
http://www.hirshhorn.org/
>>Directions, see http://www.hirshhorn.org/visit/directions.html
 
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