Lance Watsky, coordinator of UCLA’s moving image archiving program, discusses challenges moving image archiving faces:
Rob Byrne, president of the board of directors of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, on becoming a moving image archivist:
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Interviews with Moving Image Archivists
posted by MIAN on April 20, 2012
Wonderful Alices, Throughout the Land
posted by MIAN on April 17, 2012
Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland has been memorably adapted numerous times, as early as 1903 by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow (left).
Throughout April, The Cinefamily, a hearth-warming, Los Angeles familiarizer of film, is presenting versions of the not-just-for-children classic. The selections are excerpted on the organization’s website.
Included in the series are:
Black Moon, Louis Malle’s 1973 “trippy” Alice:
Jan Svankmajer’s 1988 live-action/animation masterpiece of fur, bones, clicks, creaks, and squeaks Alice, “the most gloriously macabre Alice adaptation ever filmed”:
The 1933 Alice in Wonderful that featured W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty:
A 1966 version directed by Jonathan Miller, with Anne-Marie Mallik as Alice, and a slew of well-known players in supporting roles, including John Gielgud, Wilfrid Brambell, Peter Cook, Michael Redgrave, Leo McKern, and Peter Sellers, and with music by Ravi Shankar:
You’d think that some weirdo would have made a porn version of the story, by now. Ah, such a version does exist. It’s the 1976 Alice in Wonderland from Bill Osco and the makers of the softcore hit Flesh Gordon, and The Cinefamily is showing it, too.
Didn’t her mother warn her against drinking unidentified substances from found bottles?
Anne-Marie Mallik proceeds to "drink me" in Jonathan Miller's version of 1966.
More Interviews with Moving Image Archivists
posted by MIAN on April 12, 2012
Stephanie Sapienza, project manager at American Archive, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, talks about skills needed to work in moving image archiving.
Deborah Steinmetz, director of the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive in Jerusalem, describes her work.
Whither the Easter Bunny?
posted by MIAN on April 8, 2012
Whither all the abandoned Easter bunnies?
Jack-rabbit roundup, 1934.
Bunnies, bunnies, bunnies. It’s a bunny fest.
Forget bunnies as pets, buy your loved ones the mp3, instead.
Alice in Wonderland, with rabbit, 1903