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link we like: RICK CHACE FOUNDATION
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- July 7, 2011 4:10 AM
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Film preservationist extraordinaire Robert Gitt of the UCLA Film and Television Archive hosts a fascinating lecture on the history of sound in motion pictures. After offering this presentation for years at archival and museum gatherings Bob was persuaded to
link we like: FILM POSTERS
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- July 7, 2011 4:06 AM
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Movie Posters - Original & Vintage
John Hazelton has been selling movie posters since the days of “old-school” printed catalogs. Now he’s online and you never know what he’s going to dig up next,
link we like: BASIL RATHBONE
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- July 7, 2011 4:05 AM
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BASIL RATHBONE: MASTER OF STAGE AND SCREEN
A friend recently led me to this fan site, specifically because of its eye-popping array of behind-the-scenes—
link we like: JIMMY STEWART
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- July 7, 2011 4:00 AM
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James Stewart has always been the pride and joy of his hometown, Indiana, Pennsylvania , where his father displayed the actor’s Academy Award in his hardware store for many years. Before his death, Stewart enjoyed a special homecoming planned in part by the founders of the Jimmy Stewart Museum. If you’re a Stewart fan, it’s worth a visit to this site; you’ll even find some
link we like: AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE MUSEUM
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- July 2, 2011 9:56 AM
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I’ve only recently discovered the existence of the American Vaudeville Museum in Boston, and its founder/curator, Frank Cullen. He writes, “As you know, many
link we like: GENE AUTRY
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- July 1, 2011 9:53 AM
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Here is the official Gene Autry website, packed with details about Gene’s life and career and frequently updated to let you know about
link we like: THE VITAPHONE PROJECT
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- July 1, 2011 9:50 AM
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Patrick Picking is generous enough to host a web page for The Vitaphone Project, that intrepid group of collectors and buffs who dedicate themselves to the earliest talking films.
link we like: LOUISE BROOKS SOCIETY
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- July 1, 2011 9:17 AM
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Not many sites of any kind can claim to be celebrating a tenth anniversary online, but that’s true of the Louise Brooks Society, devoted to the life and times of the magnetic silent-film star and latter-day memoirist. Thomas Gladysz has assembled a
Links To Movie History
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- February 7, 2011 5:30 AM
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History is where you find it, ranging from rare film clips of early Technicolor, silent-era Disney and more, newly posted online, and works of true scholarship, to amazing discoveries hiding in plain sight.
Walt Disney’s early short Clara Cleans Her Teeth—now online from George Eastman House.
Last week Film Forum in New York City screened Fritz Lang’s Hangmen Also Die (1943), the story of the notorious Nazi “Hangman” Richard Heydrich. The indefatigable Bruce Goldstein, who runs their retrospectives, followed up on a tip that the German DVD had about one minute of footage that was cut from the movie’s U.S. release. Bruce dutifully projected those rare moments for his audience after the movie’s conclusion, and says, “According to Patrick McGilligan it would have been Hollywood’s first depiction of Nazi atrocities.” Fascinating.
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