Archival Spaces 406: Letty Lyndon (1932) screened at American Legion Hollywood Uploaded 21 August 2026 On 25 July 2026, the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles and Hollywood Heritage presented a matinee screening of Clarence Brown’s Letty Lynton (1932), a film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, and Nils Asther, which had not been available forContinue reading “406: Letty Lynton Restored”
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403: Ellen Richter
Archival Spaces 403: Weimar Germany’s Most Popular Unknown Film Star Uploaded 10 July 2026 Despite having starred in ca. 70 films, despite having been one of the most popular actresses in Weimar Germany, and despite operating her own production company throughout the 1920s and early 1930s, Ellen Richter is invisible in the canons of classicContinue reading “403: Ellen Richter”
401: FIAF Prize to Ouagadougou
Archival Spaces 401: Ardiouma Soma Accepts Award Uploaded 26 June 2026 In April, at the 2026 FIAF Conference in Rabat, Morocco, Ardiouma Soma, the retired festival director of the Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO) and a representative of the Cinémathèque Africaine de Ouagadougou (CAO), received the prestigious FIAF AwardContinue reading “401: FIAF Prize to Ouagadougou”
402: F is For Fake
Archival Spaces 402: Film Preservation Hoaxes Uploaded 12 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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