Archival Spaces 246 Lion Feuchtwanger and the Fall of France, June 1940 Downloaded 3 July 2020 Eighty years ago, the German Wehrmacht began its invasion of France and Benelux (10 May 1940), surrounding British and French forces at Dunkirk, and occupying Paris on 14 June. It was a staggering defeat for the French, whose militaryContinue reading “246: Fall of France, June 1940”
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245: Strawberry Statement’s 50th
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”
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”
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