Archival Spaces 358 Robert Rosen (1940-2024) Uploaded 18 October 2024 Robert Rosen, the former Dean of UCLA’s School of Theatre Film and Television(TFT), and Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive (FTVA), passed away on 2 October in Los Angeles. I owed a huge debt of gratitude to Bob, who hired me as Director ofContinue reading “358: Robert Rosen, R.I.P.”
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355: Charles Puffy
Archival Spaces 355 Puffy’s Tragic End Uploaded 6 September 2024 Whenever they needed a fat man, Károly Huszár at 290 lbs. was there. Starting his film career with Michael Curtiz in Hungary in 1913, the comedian moved to Germany in 1920, before becoming a star of short comedies for Universal in 1924, as well asContinue reading “355: Charles Puffy”
353: Anti-Nazi Western
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”
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”
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