Archival Spaces 278Amazing Tales Online: Library of Congress’s Paper Prints restoredUploaded 17 September 2021 The San Francisco Silent Film Festival has been hosting screenings and special Zoom webinars, an extension of their in-person “Amazing Tales” program during the festival, where film archivists report on preservation projects. On 29 August, SFSFF hosted two women from theContinue reading “278: Restored Paper Prints”
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277: Bonn Silent Film Festival
Archival Spaces 277 Bonn Silent Film Festival: Panel Discussion Uploaded 3 September 2021 Between August 12 and August 22, 2021, the 37th International Silent Film Festival – Internationalen Stummfilmtage – Bonner Sommerkino – was held in Bonn, Germany, co-organized by the Förderverein Filmkultur Bonn e.V. The live version of the Festival has taken place forContinue reading “277: Bonn Silent Film Festival”
276: Cuban Star Xonia Benguria
Archival Spaces 276 Remembering Cuban Film Star Xonia Benguría Uploaded 20 August 2021 In October 2017, UCLA Film & Television Archive screened a new 35mm restored print of Casta de Roble (1954) in the massive retrospective, Recuerdos de un cine en español: Classic Latin American Cinema in Los Angeles, 1930-1960. Its star, Xonia Benguría, died in Astoria, N.Y. on 31Continue reading “276: Cuban Star Xonia Benguria”
275: Marriage in the Shadows (1947)
Archival Spaces 275 Marriage in the Shadows (1947, Kurt Maetzig) Uploaded 6 August 2021 Although I have been studying German cinema for decades, I’m less familiar with films from the German Democratic Republic, simply because for a long time, it was just harder to see those films. The DEFA (Deutsche Film Aktiengesellschaft) was formed in 1946Continue reading “275: Marriage in the Shadows (1947)”
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