Archival Spaces 293: Austria Made in Hollywood Uploaded 15 April 2022 Back in December, I reported on the Academy Film Museum Symposium “Vienna in Hollywood. The Influence and Impact of Austrians on the Hollywood Film Industry 1920s – 2020s.” Now, I have finally caught up with an excellent book that focuses less on Austrians inContinue reading “293: Austria on Hollywood’s Screens”
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291: Missing Movies
Archival Spaces 291 The “Missing Movies” Manifesto Uploaded 18 March 2022 Recently, film director Nancy Savoca and screenwriting partner, Richard Guay realized that their 1993 film, Household Saints, could not be screened at Columbia University, because of copyright problems. Nancy eventually worked with her lawyer, Susan Bodine, and Ira Deutchman, the film’s original distributor, toContinue reading “291: Missing Movies”
288: William Thiele in Hollywood
Archival Spaces 288: William Thiele’s Downward Slide in Hollywood Uploaded 4 February 2022 While my recent blog discussed the USC/Academy Museum’s symposium “Vienna in Hollywood,” here is an abridged version of my talk on the Austro-Jewish film director William Thiele, who will be the subject of a book I’m editing with Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert: Enchanted byContinue reading “288: William Thiele in Hollywood”
287: Susan Delson on Soundies
Archival Spaces 287: Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans Uploaded 21 January 2022 Several years ago in a piece on “Preserving Race Films” (2016, edited by Barbara Tepa Lupack) I noted that much African-American film history from the 1930s and 40s had only survived in 16mm copies, which were often treated by archivesContinue reading “287: Susan Delson on Soundies”
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