Bray Animation Project Rolls Out
posted June 11, 2011
Years in preparation, the Bray Animation Project has rolled out as an extensive research tool devoted to animated films from Bray Studios made between 1913 and 1927. The studio was headed by J.R. Bray, a pioneer of early comics who opened the New York facility as the first successful commercial animated-cartoon studio. Creator, researcher, and
The War of the Worlds Breaks Up Concrete
posted June 11, 2011
In one its This NOT Just In features, radio station KUOW, in Seattle, reported on the reaction in the town of Concrete, Washington, to the 1938 radio broadcast of War of the World, starring and directed by Orson Welles. KUOW’s Feliks Banel reported that while pockets of panic took hold in the eastern United States,
The Fate of the Original Walk of Fame Footprints
posted June 11, 2011
In 1927, three stars of the silent-film era, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, and Norma Talmadge became the first three film stars to have their footprints preserved in concrete in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. That memorialization occurred by accident, when the theater’s owner, Sid Grauman, asked the three stars to
Two More Chances to Catch “Upstream”
posted June 2, 2011
If you’re in New York or San Francisco, and still haven’t seen John Ford’s Upstream, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen it on Monday, June 20, at the Academy Theater in New York, while the San Francisco Silent Film Festival will show it on Thursday, July 14, at the Castro Theatre