Founders Day 2010

Hundreds gathered along the parade route for Auburn’s Founders Day 2010. The event is celebrating the city as the “birthplace of talking movies” and the contributions of Auburn’s Theodore W. Case, who invented the first sound films in 1916.


George Kerstetter
Along with Sigourney Weaver, Case’s grandson, Theodore W. Case III, participated in the celebration.


Ron Sharra
One of the focal points of the weekend will be the Case Research Laboratory that preserves Case’s work on Genesee Street behind the Cayuga Museum.


Nick OristanCayuga Museum Docent

Auburn Founders Day Preview , The Case Research Lab Museum

Ellen Ripley & Captain Jack Sparrow



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