Archival Spaces 352 Meeting Leni Riefenstahl Uploaded 26 July 2024 In March 1976, Robert Doherty, the Director of George Eastman Museum asked me to travel to New York to meet with Leni Riefenstahl, the infamous film director of Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia, Parts I and II (1938). At the time, Riefenstahl hadContinue reading “352: Riefenstahl”
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344: Anti-Semitic Film History
Archival Spaces 344 Nazi Film History: Film “Kunst” Film Kohn Film Korruption Uploaded 5 April 1924 Like most of my fellow film historians, I had never actually read the 1937 Nazi tract disguised as film history, Carl Neumann, Curt Belling, and Hans-Walther Betz’s Film-“Kunst”, Film Kohn, Film-Korruption. Ein Streifzug durch vier Film-Jahrzehnte, although I hadContinue reading “344: Anti-Semitic Film History”
342: R.I.P. Wolfgang Klaue
Archival Spaces 342 Wolfgang Klaue (1935-2024) Uploaded 8 March 2024 Wolfgang Klaue, the former director of the Stattliches Filmarchiv der DDR (SFA) and, after German reunification, the founding director of the DEFA Stiftung, died on 16 February. He was a giant in the field of film preservation, winning a UNESCO Silver Medal in 1988, founding theContinue reading “342: R.I.P. Wolfgang Klaue”
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