Archival Spaces 285 Vienna in Hollywood Symposium Uploaded 24 December 2021 Two weeks ago I attended and was a speaker at the Symposium, “Vienna in Hollywood. The Influence and Impact of Austrians on the Hollywood Film Industry 1920s – 2020s.” The event was hosted by the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, USC Libraries, USC’sContinue reading “285: Vienna in Hollywood Symposium”
Tag Archives: German Exile Cinema
284: Georg Höllering’s Hortobágy (1937)
Archival Spaces 284 George Höllering’s Hortobágy (1937) Uploaded 10 December 2021 George Höllering’s Hortobágy (1937) is one of those films I have been chasing after for decades and was finally able to see the film at the German Kinemathek’s recent “Film Restored: The Film Heritage Festival,” in a wet-gate transferred digital copy, restored this yearContinue reading “284: Georg Höllering’s Hortobágy (1937)”
273: John Auer’s Poverty Row
Archival Spaces 273 John H. Auer’s Beginnings as a Poverty Row Auteur Uploaded 9 July 2021 This week I recorded a DVD commentary for The Crime of Dr. Crespi (1934), directed by the Hungarian American director, John H. Auer, which will be released in a four-disc box set by Flicker Alley later this year. According to an appreciationContinue reading “273: John Auer’s Poverty Row”
267: Ufa’s Aryanization
Archival Spaces 267 The „Aryanization“ of the Ufa Uploaded 16 April 2021 Some historians have always understood the Third Reich as a dictatorship that suppressed democratic institutions and oppressed, even murdered its citizenry without due process, but as the example of Germany’s largest film company, the Universum Film A.G. (Ufa) demonstrated, a significant portion ofContinue reading “267: Ufa’s Aryanization”
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