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”
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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 “
249: Louise Brooks
Archival Spaces 249 The Last Days of Louise Brooks Uploaded 15 August 2020 Louise Brooks died 35 years ago this week on 8 August 1985. I met Louise Brooks for the first time in 1975, long after her Hollywood career had ended, when she was living on N. Goodman Street in Rochester, N.Y., around the blockContinue reading “249: Louise Brooks”
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