The National Building Museum is proud to partner with the American Film Institute (AFI) Silver Theatre and Cultural Center to present a film series associated with the Musueum's exhibition Unbuilt Washington. Things to Come: The City Imagined on Film screens films that feature striking alternative visions of urban life.

Transatlantic Tunnel
Sunday, February 19, 4:00 pm

Maurice Elvey’s adaptation of the 1913 bestseller Der Tunnel, was the fourth film inspired by the German novel (Curtis Bernhardt produced both a French- and German-language version in 1933). The premise that a transatlantic tunnel between New York and London could facilitate world peace may be unusual from today’s standpoint, but the video phones, big-screen TVs, and streamlined cars on view certainly are not. These, and other technologies, are incorporated into the film with a remarkable sense of realism, unique for a 1930s sci-fi melodrama. The high price paid, both personally and professionally, by engineer McAllan as he struggles to complete the tunnel, shapes the film’s stripped down narrative. DIR Maurice Elvey; SCR L. DuGarde Peach and Curt Siodmak; PROD Michael Balcon. US, 1935, b&w, 94 min. NOT RATED.

Ticket Information:
BUY TICKETS THROUGH AFI.com/Silver $8.50 AFI and NBM members | $11.50 General Admission | $9 Seniors (65+), Students (with valid ID), and Military | $7 Children (12 and under).  Tickets may also be purchased at the box office (opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day).  Please note that tickets are not available for purchase through the National Building Museum.

The AFI Silver Theatre is located at 8633 Colesville Road in Silver Spring, Maryland, Silver Spring Metro, Red Line.