Archival Spaces 312 Murray Glass – Em Gee Film Library Uploaded 6 January 2023 I’ve been thinking about Murray Glass for the last couple of months because I had planned to interview him for a blog, only to realize that he had died in 2019 shortly before the pandemic started, completely forgotten, certainly without anyContinue reading “312: Em Gee Film Library”
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305: Invaders from Mars
Archival Spaces 305 Invaders from Mars (1953) restored Uploaded 30 September 2022 At the Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles over Labor Day weekend, Scott MacQueen, the former head of film preservation at UCLA Film & Television Archive, presented his restoration of William Cameron Menzies’s Invaders from Mars (1953). MacQueen had previously introduced theContinue reading “305: Invaders from Mars”
304: Salka Viertel Biography
Archival Spaces 304 Donna Rifkind’s The Sun and Her Stars Uploaded 16 September 2022 I first read Salka Viertel’s autobiography, The Kindness of Strangers (1969/2019) in the late 1970s, as I was writing my first piece on German-Jewish refugees in Hollywood, “The Palm Trees Were Gently Swaying. German Refugees from Hitler in Hollywood” (1980). TheContinue reading “304: Salka Viertel Biography”
297: Nitrate Film Fest
Archival Spaces 297 Nitrate Picture Show at George Eastman Museum Uploaded 10 June 2022 After a two-year hiatus, due to the COVID Pandemic, the 6th Nitrate Picture Show was held in Rochester, N.Y. between 2 – 5 June 2022 at George Eastman Museum. Organized by the GEM Film Department’s relatively new curator, Peter Bagrov, theContinue reading “297: Nitrate Film Fest”
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