Archival Spaces 262 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Uploaded 5 February 2021 On 1 November 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated 27 January as “International Holocaust Remembrance Day,” in order to commemorate the liberation by Soviet Russian forces of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau on 27 January 1945. According to the website of theContinue reading “262: International Holocaust Day”
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261: My Fifty Years in Film Studies
Archival Spaces 261 My 50 Years in Film Studies Uploaded 22 January 2021 After my freshman year at Ohio University, which ended prematurely with the Ohio National Guard occupying campus in the wake of the Kent State killings, I transferred to the University of Delaware, because my parents had moved there from Germany and IContinue reading “261: My Fifty Years in Film Studies”
260: Paul Leni’s Waxworks
Archival Spaces 260 Restoration of Paul Leni’s Waxworks (1924) Uploaded 8 January 2021 A courageous little distributor of classic and silent films, Flicker Alley has just released a blu-ray-DVD dual-format edition of Paul Leni’s canonical Das Wachsfigurenkabinett / Waxworks (1924), directed by Paul Leni. This new digital restoration, carried out by the Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin and the Cineteca diContinue reading “260: Paul Leni’s Waxworks”
259: Dutch Films in the 1930s
Archival Spaces 259 Cinefest: 33rd Film Historical Congress Uploaded 30 December 2020 The 17th International Festival of German Film Patrimony, sponsored by the Hamburg Cinegraph, was accompanied by a film historical conference from 20 – 22 November under the heading, “Cinema, War and Tulips. German-Dutch Film Relations.” As in the case of the film festival (see ArchivalContinue reading “259: Dutch Films in the 1930s”