253: White Nationalism Black Legion

Archival Spaces 253 White Nationalist Terrorism is nothing new in America: Re-Viewing The Black Legion (1937) Uploaded 9 October 2020 Last week at the first presidential debate, Donald Trump refused to condemn the white nationalist and racist organization, “The Proud Boys,” just as he has encouraged other racist groups, like the American Nazis, whom he characterized as “goodContinue reading “253: White Nationalism Black Legion”

252: Digital Asset Symposium

Archival Spaces 252 DAS – Digital Asset Symposium (Online) Uploaded  25 September 2020 The Digital Asset Symposium – DAS – , originally scheduled for New York’s Museum of Modern Art in June, finally took place online on September 16-17, 2020. Organized by the Association of Moving Image Archivists, and sponsored by a host of vendorsContinue reading “252: Digital Asset Symposium”

251: Thanhouser Collection

Archival Spaces 251 The Thanhouser Collection DVD, Vols. 13, 14 & 15 (1911-1916) Uploaded 11 September 2020 Ned Thanhouser, the grandson of the founder of the Thanhouser Film Company, Edwin Thanhouser, has been busy over the past decade, finding lost films and preserving them in conjunction with various film archives, including the British Film Institute,Continue reading “251: Thanhouser Collection”

250: Volker Schlöndorff’s Baal 

Archival Spaces 250 Volker Schlöndorff’s Baal  (1970) Uploaded 28 August 2020 When I was a teenager, I was fascinated with Bertolt Brecht. I saw my first Brecht play, “The Rise and Fall of Arturo Ui” at the Ruhr Festspiele in 1965, which featured 20 foot high puppets. For my senior thesis in Betty Nichols’ English honors classContinue reading “250: Volker Schlöndorff’s Baal “