Archival Spaces 286 The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021) Uploaded 7 January 2022 A couple of years ago I contributed to an anthology on the filmmaker Bill Morrison, The Films of Bill Morrison (2017), edited by Bernd Herzogenrath, and I have been a big fan of Bill’s since he first showedDecasia (2002), his feature-lengthContinue reading “286: The Village Detective (2021)”
Tag Archives: Film Restoration
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”
260: Paul Leni’s Waxworks
Archival Spaces 260 Restoration of Paul Leni’s Waxworks (1924) Uploaded 8 January 2021 A courageous little distributor of classic and silent films, Flicker Alley has just released a blu-ray-DVD dual-format edition of Paul Leni’s canonical Das Wachsfigurenkabinett / Waxworks (1924), directed by Paul Leni. This new digital restoration, carried out by the Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin and the Cineteca diContinue reading “260: Paul Leni’s Waxworks”
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