Archival Spaces 402: Film Preservation Hoaxes Uploaded 28 June 2026 Recently, a story circulated on the net that a film archivist at the Carnegie Library in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Rebecca Lang, had found an unlabeled film canister in the basement, which turned out to be a previously unknown silent film from 1923 with Buster Keaton.Continue reading “402: F is For Fake”
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396: Austrians in Hollywood
Archival Spaces 396 Bernhard Frankfurter’s On the Road to Hollywood (1982) Uploaded 3 April 2026 In April 1980, I began working as a researcher for Bernhard Frankfurter’s Austrian TV film, On the Road to Hollywood (1982), travelling to Vienna to meet the film crew and give them some of my exile research. Later that year,Continue reading “396: Austrians in Hollywood”
390: United States Information Agency
Archival Spaces 390 My Short Government Career Uploaded 9 January 2026 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”
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”
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