280: Giornate del cinema muto Online

Archival Spaces 280 Giornate del Cinema Muto 2021 Online Uploaded 15 October 2021 This is the 40th anniversary of what is now the oldest silent film festival in the world. I attended my first Giornate del cinema muto in Pordenone in 1988, when I accepted the Jean Mitry Award in the name of George Pratt, theContinue reading “280: Giornate del cinema muto Online”

278: Restored Paper Prints

Archival Spaces 278Amazing Tales Online: Library of Congress’s Paper Prints restoredUploaded 17 September 2021 The San Francisco Silent Film Festival has been hosting screenings and special Zoom webinars, an extension of their in-person “Amazing Tales” program during the festival, where film archivists report on preservation projects. On 29 August, SFSFF hosted two women from theContinue reading “278: Restored Paper Prints”

271: Ozaphan 16mm

Archival Spaces 271   Ozaphan, 16mm on Cellophane Uploaded 11 June 2021 Ozaphan was a non-flammable safety film format marketed for home use in France and Germany from the late 1920s to the 1950s, which had the peculiarity that it neither used a conventional photographic emulsion, nor was its base di-acetate.  Rather, Ozaphan employed a systemContinue reading “271: Ozaphan 16mm”

268: The Emergence of Early Television 1878-1939

Archival Spaces 268 Seeing by Electricity. The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939 Uploaded 30 April 2021 Even though we think of television as only coming to public consciousness several decades after the birth of cinema, one of the epiphanies of Doron Galilli’s new book, Seeing by Electricity. The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939 (Duke University Press, 2020), is thatContinue reading “268: The Emergence of Early Television 1878-1939”