Archival Spaces 379: Photography by Karel Čapek Uploaded 8 August 2025 The name Karel Čapek (1890-1938) is familiar to American science fiction readers and certainly specialists in Slavic literature, but probably not many others. In the Czech Republic, however, Čapek is revered as one of the greatest authors of the first half of the 20thContinue reading “379: Karel Čapek”
Tag Archives: 1930s
349: German film operettas
Archival Spaces 349 UFA greets Lubitsch: Early Sound Film Operettas Uploaded 14 June 2024 In November 2023, I gave a keynote, titled “UFA greets Lubitsch,” at Cinegraph’s annual film historical symposium, “Danger! Music…Between Film Comedy and Musical.” My Archival Spaces 336 discussed their film program of Weimar German sound films, which included many discoveries ofContinue reading “349: German film operettas”