Archival Spaces 377: Hans Feld, Weimar Film Journalist Uploaded 11 July 2025 Hans Feld is probably the most well-known and prolific film journalist writing for Weimar Germany’s most widely read film industry publication, Film-Kurier, after Lotte Eisner. Hans Feld was born on 14 July 1902 in Berlin and died on the same day, his 90thContinue reading “377: Hans Feld”
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363: M&K Controversy
Archival Spaces 363 Mitchell and Kenyon Discovery in Dispute Uploaded 27 December 2024 I can’t quite remember when I first saw the Mitchell and Kenyon films but Andrea Leigh tells me it was at the AMIA Conference in 2001 when the British Film Institute first began circulating 35mm prints of their restorations. I was trulyContinue reading “363: M&K Controversy”
344: Anti-Semitic Film History
Archival Spaces 344 Nazi Film History: Film “Kunst” Film Kohn Film Korruption Uploaded 5 April 1924 Like most of my fellow film historians, I had never actually read the 1937 Nazi tract disguised as film history, Carl Neumann, Curt Belling, and Hans-Walther Betz’s Film-“Kunst”, Film Kohn, Film-Korruption. Ein Streifzug durch vier Film-Jahrzehnte, although I hadContinue reading “344: Anti-Semitic Film History”
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”
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