Archival Spaces 271 Ozaphan, 16mm on Cellophane Uploaded 11 June 2021 Ozaphan was a non-flammable safety film format marketed for home use in France and Germany from the late 1920s to the 1950s, which had the peculiarity that it neither used a conventional photographic emulsion, nor was its base di-acetate. Rather, Ozaphan employed a systemContinue reading “271: Ozaphan 16mm”
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270: Warner Bros. abandon DVDs?
Archival Spaces 270 Will Warner Brothers Abandon DVDs/blu-rays? Uploaded 28 May 2021 Several weeks ago, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites blew up with the news that AT & T’s Warner Media had announced that the WB would be abandoning the distribution of physical movie media, i.e., DVDs and Blu-rays, turning sales over toContinue reading “270: Warner Bros. abandon DVDs?”
269: 1970s Women Directors
Archival Spaces 269 Liberating Hollywood. Women Directors & the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema Uploaded 14 May 2021 The following review was originally written in October 2019 but remained unpublished. With a woman of color winning an Oscar for directing this year, this book remains hugely relevant. In October 2019, it was announced inContinue reading “269: 1970s Women Directors”
268: The Emergence of Early Television 1878-1939
Archival Spaces 268 Seeing by Electricity. The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939 Uploaded 30 April 2021 Even though we think of television as only coming to public consciousness several decades after the birth of cinema, one of the epiphanies of Doron Galilli’s new book, Seeing by Electricity. The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939 (Duke University Press, 2020), is thatContinue reading “268: The Emergence of Early Television 1878-1939”
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