Martha’s Vineyard history comes alive again on the big screen on Wednesday, August 10, with a presentation of old movie clips of the Island, some dating to the 1920s, at the Strand Theatre in Oak Bluffs.

Following two sold-out performances earlier this summer at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center, Tom Dunlop and John Wilson, founders of the Vineyard Gazette’s Historic Movies of Martha’s Vineyard Project, take their popular show to one of the Island’s renovated historic theatres for the first time.

Launched in 2012, the award-winning project locates, preserves and edits for public display important moving images from the Vineyard’s past.

Clips shown at the Strand will include dramatic scenes of hurricanes in the 1950s, footage of Island steamers and ferries from the 1940s and images of offshore swordfishing expeditions in the 1930s. Among the earliest clips are of bathers on Vineyard beaches dating back to the mid 1920s.

The clips are punctuated with bits of Island history, information about the source of the film footage and insight into the process of preserving and digitizing old movies. Mr. Dunlop, a Vineyard writer long associated with the Gazette and Martha’s Vineyard Magazine, and Mr. Wilson, a sports television producer, have lifelong ties to the Island.

Winner of the 2015 innovator’s award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association, the Historic Movies Project is actively looking for more home movies or videotape taken of the Vineyard between the 1920s and the turn of the 21st century. In exchange for helping film owners safely digitize old films for their personal enjoyment, the Gazette enters into a licensing arrangement so that selections of the film may be used in public presentations. Each film accepted for the project is researched so that it is presented in an accurate historical context.

The next presentation of historic movie clips at the Strand starts at 6 p.m. To buy tickets, go to mvfilmsociety.com.

For information about the Historic Movies of Martha’s Vineyard Project, and to view all the films, visit vineyardgazette.com/historicmoviesofmarthasvineyard.