To commiorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the release of Josef von Sternberg's Morocco, Charles Silver, Associate Curator in the Department of Film and Media, presents a twenty-minute lecture and a screening of the film, which he considers one of the most important in cinia history. Silver's lecture, first delivered at a conference on colonial cinia in Rabat, Morocco, in 2001, addresses the uniquely Romantic and transcendent quality of Sternberg's film, a quality that the curator believes does justice both to the country of Morocco and to the director's vision. Indeed, Silver argues, Morocco is one of the few early sound films to restore the visual glories of silent cinia.