Archival Spaces 341 Most Expensive Industrial Film Ever Uploaded 23 February 2024 In 1948, the Apex Film Co., a company founded by former MGM executive Jack Chertok to produce educational, industrial, and other sponsored films, was hired by E.I. Du Pont de Nemours to produce a feature-length color industrial on the history of the DuPontContinue reading “341: Most Expensive Industrial Film Ever”
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304: Salka Viertel Biography
Archival Spaces 304 Donna Rifkind’s The Sun and Her Stars Uploaded 16 September 2022 I first read Salka Viertel’s autobiography, The Kindness of Strangers (1969/2019) in the late 1970s, as I was writing my first piece on German-Jewish refugees in Hollywood, “The Palm Trees Were Gently Swaying. German Refugees from Hitler in Hollywood” (1980). TheContinue reading “304: Salka Viertel Biography”
285: Vienna in Hollywood Symposium
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”
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”
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