Lunchtime Film Series - Springfield Library

The Springfield Free Public Library is hosting their lunchtime film series.  Today's film is Farenheit 451 (1966).  Acclaimed as a modern classic, the outstanding novel by Ray Bradbury is brought to the screen with all its vividness and imagination intact.  Set in a future electronic age, all books are banned and fireman must keep fires burning at 451 degrees, the temperature at which paper burns.  Julie Christie plays dual roles - one as the wife of fireman Oskar Werner and the other as a book-loving schoolteacher.  Directed by Francois Truffaut. This film is 113 minutes and not rated.

Funding for the film program is made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, through a grant administered by the Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, and by the Friends of the Springfield Public Library.

The series will continue every other Monday through December 12, 2011.  For specific titles and more information about the series, see the Library's website or call us at (973)376-4930.  Admission is free.  Patrons can bring a brown bag lunch to the program - coffee, tea and cookies will be served at 11:30am.  Assistive listening devices are available upon request for those who need them.  The Springfield Free Public Library is located at 66 Mountain Ave., Springfield, NJ 07081.