377:  Hans Feld

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”

376: Spielberg Film Archive

Archival Spaces 376: Martina Weisz Named Director, Steven Spielberg Film Archive Uploaded 27 June 2025 I first made contact in 1982 with the Steven Spielberg Film Archive in Jerusalem, when I was researching films for my exhibition, “Helmar Lerski: Photographs and Films,” at the Folkwang Museum, Essen, then in Tel Aviv, Munich, Frankfurt, and SanContinue reading “376: Spielberg Film Archive”

373:  IMAX à la 1900

Archival Spaces 373: American Biograph Co. 68mm Films Added to UNESCO Register Uploaded 16 May 2025 A month ago, the British Film Institute, London, and Holland’s Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, announced in a joint press release that their unique collection of 300 68mm films from the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company had been added to UNESCO’s International MemoryContinue reading “373:  IMAX à la 1900”

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”