The Bryn Mawr Film Institute has published a digital archive of every movie screened at the Seville Theatre since 1926, logging more than 12,000 titles across 100 annual lists on the film-tracking platform Letterboxd.

Former BMFI staffer Jacob Dickens built the archive by combing through Philadelphia-region newspaper listings and campus publications, according to a PhillyVoice report published Tuesday. Films too obscure to have their own Letterboxd entry, including 1929 curiosities "Zing, Bang, Bong" and "Let George Do It," are noted at the bottom of each year's list. Private screenings and film festival satellite showings are excluded from the main catalog but appear in footnotes.

The project marks a major milestone for the theater and the Bryn Mawr community: the Seville Theatre at 824 W. Lancaster Ave. opened on October 1, 1926, as a single-screen Beaux-Arts movie palace designed by Philadelphia architect William H. Lee.

The theater changed hands several times over the decades. Local owner Harry Fried ran it from 1926 until 1946, when Philadelphia operator William Goldman took over and renamed it the Bryn Mawr Theatre. By 1979, operator Budco had split the auditorium into two screens. United Artists Theatres ceased operations there in 2000 after filing for bankruptcy, and the building sat vacant, at one point facing conversion into a gym.

Lower Merion resident Juliet Goodfriend organized the nonprofit Bryn Mawr Film Institute in 2002 to save the theater. BMFI purchased the building in December 2004 and reopened it on March 12, 2005, with Academy Award-winning actor Ben Kingsley cutting the ribbon, according to BMFI's history page. A $2.5 million restoration campaign reinstalled 400 glass panes in the theater's historic skylight atrium, and two new auditoriums opened in 2014, bringing the venue to four screens. The Seville was added to the National Register of Historic Places in December 2005.

BMFI operates as a nonprofit, member-supported cinema and film education center with 4K, 70mm, and 35mm projection.

The institute is screening selections from the archive as part of its year-long BMFI 100 series. Each showing includes a preshow of era-appropriate cartoons, newsreels and trailers, with newsreel images courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Packard Humanities Institute.

Next up: Terrence Malick's "Days of Heaven" (1978) on Thursday, July 23, at 7:15 p.m., presented alongside a Cinema Classics Seminar taught by Alan Singer, Ph.D. Rob Reiner's "The Princess Bride" (1987) follows on Wednesday, August 12, at 7:15 p.m. Tickets for that screening are $16 general admission and $13 for BMFI members, and each ticket includes a giveaway item. BMFI is also planning a "Centennial Soiree" on Thursday, October 1, the exact anniversary of the theater's opening. Details are at brynmawrfilm.org or by calling 610-527-9898.