SMCM: ‘The Reel History of Working Women’

Filmmaker Caroline Martel

The Department of Theater, Film, and Media Studies at St. Mary’s College will host the first screening of its seventh annual film series, “Toil & Trouble: The Reel History of Working Women,” on Monday, Sept. 9, starting at 8:15 p.m. in Cole Cinema, Campus Center.

Film-maker Caroline Martel will screen and discuss her film, “The Phantom of the Operator” (2004), a montage documentary of a little-known chapter in labor history: the story of female telephone operators’ central place in the development of global communications technologies. The film series is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Mark Rhoda at [email protected] or 240-895-4231, or visit the TFMS website at www.smcm.edu/tfms.