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Posted by: Amanda Jenkins
November marks Native American Heritage Month – a time to celebrate the rich cultures and traditions of indigenous American peoples as well as to raise awareness of the unique challenges Native Americans face and have faced for hundreds of years. The moving image materials preserved and housed in the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center of the …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures
Posted by: Amanda Jenkins
Thursday, November 15th, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. The Music Division of the Library of Congress presents a screening of the biopic Howard (2018) in the Mary Pickford Theater. This presentation is part of the 2018-2019 season of Concerts from the Library of Congress. A representative from the film will introduce this special screening. HOWARD (Stone Circle Pictures, …
Posted in: Film/Video, Mary Pickford Theater, Musical Theater
Posted by: Amanda Jenkins
Screened in conjunction with The Road Back: Veterans and Literary Writing Symposium on veterans’ “road back,” focusing on the use of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction as a means of healing from the trauma of war, and presented by the Library’s Poetry and Literature Center, Veterans History Project, and Exhibits Office, the Mary Pickford Theater …
Posted in: Film/Video, Mary Pickford Theater, Motion Pictures, World War I
Posted by: Amanda Jenkins
Thursday, November 8th, 2018, at 7:00 p.m. Every month, films from the Library’s collection are shown at the Mary Pickford Theater in the James Madison building, ranging from titles newly preserved by the National Audio Visual Conservation Center film lab, classics from the National Film Registry, and lesser known titles worthy of discovery. NATIONAL FILM …
Posted in: Film/Video, Mary Pickford Theater, Motion Pictures, National Film Registry
Posted by: Mike Mashon
Rarely has the arrival of a film at the Packard Campus occasioned as much anticipation as the day in April 2015 when the sole surviving nitrate print of the first cinematic adaptation of Frankenstein (Edison Manufacturing Company, 1910) was accessioned into our collection. It’s not because the film is all that revelatory—it’s most decidedly not—or …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
Posted by: Karen Fishman
This is a guest post by Josie Walters-Johnston, Reference Librarian in the Moving Image Research Center. The Moving Image Research Center (MIRC) is the point of access to over 1.2 million moving images held by the Library of Congress. These items include theatrical films, newsreels, television programs, education and industrial films, documentaries, television commercials, and …
Posted in: Advertising, Film/Video, Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
Posted by: Mike Mashon
This guest post was written by Amy Jo Stanfill, Processing Technician in the Moving Image Section and coordinator of the Silent Film Project. RKO’s St. Louis Blues, directed by Dudley Murphy and starring Bessie Smith, was named to the National Film Registry in 2006. This two-reel early sound short premiered in New York before the …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures, National Film Registry
Posted by: Mike Mashon
I spent a good deal of early 2016 planning for the Orphan Film Symposium, reviewing proposals with my co-programmer Dan Streible. Since we already knew that the theme would be Sound, I also started spelunking our collection for films about sound in all its many aspects that could either be screened at Orphans, blogged about, …
Posted in: Film/Video, Orphan Film Symposium, Radio
Posted by: Mike Mashon
It’s a good week for silent film lovers at the Packard Campus Theater with four consecutive programs starting Wednesday. And as usual, all will be accompanied by live music. We welcome London favorite Stephen Horne for two WWI related-screenings on Wednesday (On the Firing Line with the Germans, about which I wrote last week) and …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures, Silent Film Project