341: Most Expensive Industrial Film Ever

Archival Spaces 341 Most Expensive Industrial Film Ever Uploaded 23 February 2024 In 1948, the Apex Film Co., a company founded by former MGM executive Jack Chertok to produce educational, industrial, and other sponsored films, was hired by E.I. Du Pont de Nemours to produce a feature-length color industrial on the history of the DuPontContinue reading “341: Most Expensive Industrial Film Ever”

340: Zone of Interest

Archival Spaces 340 The Zone of Interest Uploaded 9 February 2024 In June 1990, I flew to Katowice, Poland to work on a traveling exhibit of American film, developed by the now-defunct U.S. Information Agency. While there I took a day trip to Oświęcim, better known by its German name, Auschwitz. In  Auschwitz I, theContinue reading “340: Zone of Interest”

339: Kinemathek Update

Archival Spaces 339 Deutsche Kinemathek Update Uploaded 26 January 2024 The news took a little longer to arrive than initially indicated in my Archival Spaces 319 blog (https://archivalspaces.com/2023/04/14/319-deutsche-kinemathek/)), but it is good, indeed. As reported in April 2023, the Deutsche Kinemathek and Museum für Film und Fernsehen on Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz had lost its leaseContinue reading “339: Kinemathek Update”

338: The Kawakita Diaries

Archival Spaces 338 The Kawakita Diaries 1932 Uploaded 15 January 2024 In April 1993, I was invited by my colleague (and now long-time friend), Hisashi Okajima of the Film Center at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, to give the opening lecture for their three-month film program, “American Films – The Little Known.”Continue reading “338: The Kawakita Diaries”