Was Hollywood Cozy with Hitler?
posted October 24, 2013
Was Hollywood cozy with Hitler? That's the claim of a new book that has proven incendiary — and has been soundly disparaged.
Archive in a Wall Cavity – the series, in one
posted October 9, 2013
When you renovate, keep your eyes open for old film. Three parts, now all in one.
THE THEATERS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
posted October 5, 2013
Part 3 (of 3) about the movies that fell out of a house wall asks: "What kind of societal self-loathing is it that moves us to assign iconic structures to the wrecking ball? Couldn't we redeploy them – preserve at least the buildings as repositories of cultural memory?"
ARCHIVE IN A WALL CAVITY II
posted September 18, 2013
TRUTH TO TELL, the wall-stuffing’s references to still-well-known movies was less interesting than listings of movies little heard of, today, and the generally vanished theaters that screened them.
ARCHIVE IN A WALL CAVITY
posted September 10, 2013
Old houses’ wall cavities can be a delightful kind of moving-image archive: Older ones may well conceal wads of newspaper with captivating movie sections. Cinema enthusiasts may find reading those more compelling than grappling with jambs and architraves.
A Most Diverting Account of the Movie Gimmick
posted August 21, 2013
On the always diverting Collectors Weekly web site, Hunter Oatman-Stanford describes movie and movie-house attention grabbing ploys that now almost define the shock-horror schlocker B Movie.
More from Wunderkino 2013 – Hunt’n n Fish’n
posted August 19, 2013
Some of the earliest films were of a combative nature – there were boxing films, train-robbery films, and – as one of the most accomplished of early-film historians, Paul Spehr, described at this year’s Wunderkino, a gathering run by Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, Maine – films pitched at hunters and fishermen.
Wunderkino 2013 – What You May Have Missed
posted August 18, 2013
Oliver Gaycken discusses a genre of film you may not have known existed: Depictions of the latest in forestry science that government agencies and lumber companies made in the mid-20th century.
The Resounding Demise of an Historic Maltese Cinema
posted July 22, 2013
Stand before a derelict entertainment facility, and it’s not difficult to hear peels of laughter, gasps of thrill or horror, applause. Those are hardly joyful sounds, however, if they merely reverberate eerily through a crumbling, empty hall. Such a cheerless edifice stands in shambles in Pembroke, a town on the small island nation of Malta.
Bing at Home in Spokane, Washington
posted July 18, 2013
Gonzaga University, Crosby’s early stomping ground, is where you can find his boyhood home, and much memorabilia By Peter Monaghan Spokane, Washington – Spokane is not the kind of location you might expect would give rise to one of the most acclaimed careers in 20th-century entertainment – most big-city Americans would consider it to