LSC Schedule Archives
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Below you will find LSC schedule webpages since we first went on the web. LSC has been a cultural phenomenon at MIT since 1944, often unique in many ways from other college film groups. Help us fill in the collective folk history of LSC and MIT, and tell us how it's affected your life.
The Tech claims to be the first newspaper on the web, dating from 1993, and there's no evidence to the contrary. We don't know where we fit in at 1996, but we're probably one of the first dozen movie theaters on the web. Some perspective: Google went online in 1996 and was known as Backrub; Amazon.com put up its first site in July 1995; Yahoo dates from February 1994. Here's the Google archive of a Usenet post explaining the woefully incomplete state of theater websites as late as 1997.
Please be aware that there may be broken links, as well as links to websites that no longer exist. This is a reflection of the speed with which the Internet changes. Also, while we've tried to replicate the original page layout as closely as possible, a modern browser will probably render it differently from a period browser. For some real fun, dig out an old copy of Netscape or Mosaic.
The Beginning: 1996 Design
We can proudly claim that we did not use any <blink> tags in the rush to take advantage of the Netscape tags in HTML. Of interest: the links to the Mississippi State University mirror of IMDB for Spring 1996. The MSU links don't work, but the subsequent IMDB.com links still work, a tribute to backward compatibility. Here's what the IMDB used to look like. Kevin Lynch '96 and Phil Lisiecki '96 worked on the IAP 1996 site. We are uncertain if there was an earlier incarnation of the website.
- IAP 1996
- Spring 1996 - links a bit broken
- Summer 1996
- Fall 1996
- IAP 1997
- Spring 1997
- Summer 1997
- Fall 1997
- IAP 1998
- Spring 1998
- Summer 1998
- Fall 1998
- IAP 1999
- Spring 1999
- Summer 1999 is missing
Release 2: 1999 Design
Alvar Saenz-Otero '98 G designed the new layout for the LSC webpage. Webmasters for this design included Jeremy Daniel '99. Depending on how you count it, our first movie in the new millennium was either Lolita or Dead Poets Society.
- Fall 1999: schedule . Thanksgiving . Star Wars costume contest
- IAP 2000: schedule
- Spring 2000: schedule
- Summer 2000: schedule
- Fall 2000: schedule
- IAP 2001: descriptions
- Spring 2001: descriptions
- Summer 2001: descriptions
- Fall 2001: descriptions
- IAP 2002: descriptions
- Spring 2002: descriptions
- Summer 2002: descriptions
- Fall 2002: descriptions
- IAP 2003: descriptions
- Spring 2003: descriptions
Release 3: 2003 Design
Tao Yue '04 designed the new layout for the LSC webpage. Webmasters for this design included Erica Peterson '02. Of interest: the closed-captioning logo beginning in fall of 2003, when we installed Rear Window Captioning, which makes theatrical films accessible to the hard-of-hearing. Release 3a in Summer 2007 incorporated some small changes to the layout and style, as well as the inclusion of embedded flash trailers on the front page. The photograph of an LSC audience featured at the top of the page was taken by Tao Yue '04.