Archival Spaces 245 50th Anniversary, The Strawberry Statement (1970) Downloaded 19 June 2020 The Strawberry Statement (1970, Stuart Hagmann), based on a bestselling book by James S. Kunen, premiered 50 years ago on 15 June 1970. That academic year I was a college freshman in Athens, Ohio, when reading the novel was de rigeur. as were other youth movement favorites, including OneContinue reading “245: Strawberry Statement’s 50th”
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244: Orphan Film Symposium 2020
Archival Spaces 244 Orphan Film Symposium Online 2020 Uploaded 5 June 2020 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Orphan Symposium, which was to be held in Amsterdam from 23-26 May, was moved online via Vimeo, beginning Tuesday, May 26th and continuing for four days. The original interrelated Symposium themes, “Water, Climate, and Migration” were keptContinue reading “244: Orphan Film Symposium 2020”
243: Hugo Haas’ The White Sickness
Archival Spaces 243 Hugo Haas’ The White Sickness (1937) restored; a Plague Allegory Uploaded 22 May 2020 Thanks to my archivist colleague and friend, Adrian Wood, I learned that the Národní filmový archive in Prague has restored Bílá nemoc (1937) from the original nitrate negative (the sound came from a nitrate print) and made it available online on theirContinue reading “243: Hugo Haas’ The White Sickness”
242: Movie Theatres & the Pandemic
Archival Spaces 242 Will Movie Theatres Survive the 2020 Plague? Uploaded 8 May 2020 On Thursday, 30 April, Ross Melnick and the Carsey-Wolf Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara hosted an online panel discussion, “Moviegoing in the Age of COVID-19,” with Manohla Dargis (New York Times) and Alison Kozberg (Art House Convergence) aboutContinue reading “242: Movie Theatres & the Pandemic”
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