410: The Slanderers (1924) restored

Archival Spaces 410: New Restoration Screened at 2nd L.A. Silent Film Festival Uploaded 16 October 2026 The 2nd Los Angeles Silent Film Festival, held at the American Cinematheque’s Los Feliz 3 cinema from 11-13 September, premiered two restorations from the HMH Film Archive at USC: Help Yourself (1927), an Al Brendel comedy one-reeler, and theContinue reading “410: The Slanderers (1924) restored”

370: Hobart Bosworth

Archival Spaces 370: Hobart Bosworth Films on Blu-Ray Uploaded 4 April 2025 Unless you are a silent film aficionado, you probably may not have heard of Hobart Bosworth. He was already in his 40s when he started his film career at Selig-Polyscope, starring in The Count of Monte Cristo (1908), after battling tuberculosis for almostContinue reading “370: Hobart Bosworth”

239: Czechoslovak Legions in WWI

Archival Spaces 239 The Czechoslovak Legions in World War I Uploaded March 27, 2020 In the past couple of years, I have written blogs about my dad, Jerome (Jaromir) Horák, who was both a concentration camp survivor (https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blog/international-students-day/) and a refugee from Communist Czechoslovakia (https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archival-spaces/2018/08/31/abduction-petr-zenkl), and whose birthday it is today.  More recently, I have beenContinue reading “239: Czechoslovak Legions in WWI”