The Remarkable Story of a Woman Who Preserved Over 30 Years of TV History A new documentary film about activist archivist Marion Stokes and her work just debuted at Tribeca! Stokes passed in 2012, leaving her son, Michael, a legacy…
The Remarkable Story of a Woman Who Preserved Over 30 Years of TV History A new documentary film about activist archivist Marion Stokes and her work just debuted at Tribeca! Stokes passed in 2012, leaving her son, Michael, a legacy…
The task of archiving dance is notoriously sisyphean. As an inherently ephemeral medium, what constraints is dance archiving subject to, and how can those be overcome? Further, choreographers are historically “behind the scenes,” not often subject to the scrutiny and…
The Library of Congress’ National Film Registry announced on December 12th its selection of 25 new works to their archive. Among the selections is Something Good-Negro Kiss, a silent film from 1898 of great historical importance. The University of Chicago’s…
A legal dispute in the late 1920s forced Walt Disney to abandon his early signature character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Disney rebounded from this setback by morphing many of Oswald’s key features into Mickey Mouse, the iconic figure of his…
Jordan Peele has coined his 2016 movie “Get Out” as a social thriller (Collider.com). «It’s drama of the most riveting and original kind, one that sucks you into a vortex of (justified) paranoia, turning into a nightmare that suggests a…