Archival Spaces 384: Remembering Bundesarchiv President Friedrich P. Kahlenberg Uploaded 17 October 2025 Prof. Dr. Friedrich P. Kahlenberg would have celebrated his 90th birthday in twelve days. Born on 29 October 1935 in Mainz, where the Main and Rhine Rivers run together, Kahlenberg was one of my most important mentors, the person responsible more thanContinue reading “384: Friedrich P. Kahlenberg”
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383: Weimar Comedies
Archival Spaces 383: Four German Comedies (1931-32) Blu-Ray Uploaded 3 October 2025 Flicker Alley has released a two-disc blu-ray set, “Champagne & Caviar: Four Weimar Comedies (1931-1932),” which for all the many merits of the presentation, is somewhat of a misnomer. Produced during the depths of the world-wide Depression, these are not frothy Hollywood comediesContinue reading “383: Weimar Comedies”
381: Tamara
Archival Spaces 381: Identifying Silent Film Actors Uploaded 5 September 2025 Identifying film actors who are not listed in the credits or misidentified can be a tricky business, because available filmographic resources are not always accurate and comparing images can be deceiving. I ran into this problem a number of years ago, when I helpedContinue reading “381: Tamara”
378: An Early Irish Film
Archival Spaces 378: The Irish Film Company’s Knocknagow (1918) Uploaded 25 July 2025 The San Francisco Film Preservel presented an online lecture by Veronica Johnson on 18 July about the still little-known Film Company of Ireland (1916-1920), focusing on the company’s feature, Knocknagow (1918). An Irish film historian, Dr. Johnson, is following up on workContinue reading “378: An Early Irish Film”