If you like books and you like movies, then the library is the perfect spot for you. The Malden Public Library just recently held their monthly Movie Night on thursday october 26. The Malden Public Library usually holds movie night once a month after the school from 3-5. They have been holding movie nights for a while now.
Although Patrick Brennan, the information librarian in charge of the young adult section and Movie Night at the Malden Public Library, couldn’t recall how long the library has been holding it, it has been a new opportunity to attract everyone and anyone from the community to the library. One reason why Brennan oversees the program is because he enjoys watching movies and films which is one way he could connect to the program.
The Malden Public Library has various movie licenses that they require in order to show movie to large groups of people in a public area. They have licenses for many genres of movies such as Disney movies and Marvel films. They have shown many movies during Movie Night such as Beauty and The Beast, Batman vs. Superman, The Hunger Games films, and many other films. The way the library is able to decide which movie should be played is based on the popularity of the particular film. The movies they choose also has to be rated appropriately, mainly PG13. It’s been noticed by Brennan that the turnout of the film is dependant on the movie they show.
Usually movies that have a popularity rate in theatres get larger audiences. Patrick Brennan notices that the usual audience for most Movie Nights is around 15 people, but with more popular movies such as Beauty and The Beast had an audience of around 40 people. Movie Night is free, so it is not held to promote the library,but to give kids from schools throughout the city an activity to attend after school once a month. He also shared “it’s one of the places in Malden where kids from different schools, especially the k-8 grades, can come to relax and hang out along with places such as the Malden YMCA”.
Movie Night at the Malden Public Library is welcome to everyone in the community especially students of Malden Public Schools. They provide refreshments for the movie as well. They plan on showing more movies in the future including an anime film that they plan on showing in the coming months.
