Hollywood Comes to Williamsburg: A Century of Movie and Media Productions

Since the birth of the motion picture industry, Colonial Williamsburg has served as the setting for numerous television programs and movies while also producing many of its own educational films that bring aspects of the eighteenth-century to life on the screen. Take a journey through the history of movies, television shows, and media productions filmed in Williamsburg through an illustrated lecture featuring still images, objects, and archival materials from the collections of the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library at Colonial Williamsburg in this presentation by Jenna Simpson and Marianne Martin.