Archival Spaces 299 NYU Orphans Film Symposium Uploaded 7 July 2022 I attended my first Orphans Film Symposium in 1999, which was also the first iteration of what has become an important event in the moving image archival field. Orphan films refer to films that have fallen out of copyright or have never been copyrighted,Continue reading “299: Orphanistas Gather”
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298: James Card Lecture
Archival Spaces 298 James Card Memorial Lecture at Nitrate Picture Show Uploaded 24 June 2022 Below is an excerpt of my James Card Memorial Lecture at the recent Nitrate Picture Show at George Eastman Museum on 4 June 2022. As some people know, I started my career there: 47 years ago I began my careerContinue reading “298: James Card Lecture”
297: Nitrate Film Fest
Archival Spaces 297 Nitrate Picture Show at George Eastman Museum Uploaded 10 June 2022 After a two-year hiatus, due to the COVID Pandemic, the 6th Nitrate Picture Show was held in Rochester, N.Y. between 2 – 5 June 2022 at George Eastman Museum. Organized by the GEM Film Department’s relatively new curator, Peter Bagrov, theContinue reading “297: Nitrate Film Fest”
296: Reinhard Heydrich’s End
Archival Spaces 296 Operation Anthropoid Uploaded 27 May 2022 Exactly 80 years ago, on 27 May 1942, the so-called Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich, was wounded in an assassination attempt by members of the Czechoslovak Army in exile in an operation code-named Anthropoid. Flown in by the Royal Air Force and coordinated onContinue reading “296: Reinhard Heydrich’s End”
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