Archival Spaces 353 John Wayne’s Anti-Nazi Western Uploaded 9 August 2024 When I wrote my dissertation on anti-Nazi films made in Hollywood by German Jewish Refugees, I included chapters on the depiction of the Fifth Column, life in Nazi Germany, and the anti-Nazi resistance in occupied Europe. I mentioned that the topic of anti-Nazi refugeesContinue reading “353: Anti-Nazi Western”
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349: German film operettas
Archival Spaces 349 UFA greets Lubitsch: Early Sound Film Operettas Uploaded 14 June 2024 In November 2023, I gave a keynote, titled “UFA greets Lubitsch,” at Cinegraph’s annual film historical symposium, “Danger! Music…Between Film Comedy and Musical.” My Archival Spaces 336 discussed their film program of Weimar German sound films, which included many discoveries ofContinue reading “349: German film operettas”
348: Academy Museum’s Jewish Film Pioneers
Archival Spaces 348 Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital Uploaded 31 May 2024 Two weeks ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Academy Museum opened what most observers called their mea culpa exhibition on Hollywood’s Jewish Pioneers, “Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital,” which occupiesContinue reading “348: Academy Museum’s Jewish Film Pioneers”
341: Most Expensive Industrial Film Ever
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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