Archival Spaces 390 My Short Government Career Uploaded 9 January 2025 In the Fall of 1987, I received a call from David Paul, a producer at the United States Information Agency, asking if I could compile for them a list of German Academy Award winners. No problem. He followed up with a letter a monthContinue reading “390: United States Information Agency”
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386: Giornate del cinema muto
Archival Spaces 386: Pordenone’s Days of Silent Film, 2 – 12 October 2025 Uploaded 14 November 2025 It was the first time in six years I was back in Pordenone, Italy, for the Giornate del cinema muto, having been forbidden by the powers that be at UCLA to travel to the oldest silent film festivalContinue reading “386: Giornate del cinema muto”
384: Friedrich P. Kahlenberg
Archival Spaces 384: Remembering Bundesarchiv President Friedrich P. Kahlenberg Uploaded 17 October 2025 Prof. Dr. Friedrich P. Kahlenberg would have celebrated his 90th birthday in twelve days. Born on 29 October 1935 in Mainz, where the Main and Rhine Rivers run together, Kahlenberg was one of my most important mentors, the person responsible more thanContinue reading “384: Friedrich P. Kahlenberg”
380: IMLS
Archival Spaces 380: Institute of Museum and Library Services in Peril Uploaded 22 August 2025 Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s as film curator, I applied for and received several Institute of Museum Services grants for cataloguing and preserving the film poster collections at George Eastman Museum. That federal agency had been inContinue reading “380: IMLS”
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