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Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post from Rachel Parker, a Processing Technician in the Moving Image Section. “Welcome to the Packard Campus Theater. Please power up your laptops and portable devices and be sure to speak loudly enough during the film so that everyone can hear you.” Not a usual pre-movie show request, is it? …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
We wrap up our June series of westerns and end the month with a live comedy performance from two very funny women, Jody Kerns and Sonya King. Thursday, June 26 (7:30 p.m.) B Western Double Feature The Utah Trail (Grand National, 1938) Tex Stewart (aka “The Pecos Kid”) and his sidekicks arrive to help out …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
Silent films were never silent. From their earliest days as an exhibition attraction, motion pictures were accompanied by some form of music–typically a piano, a musical combo in more modest sized houses, and sometimes an entire orchestra in movie palaces. In some instances, the pianist was joined by a drummer employing sound effects, something I’ve …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures, Paper Prints
Posted by: Mike Mashon
Saddle up as our Westerns series continues, including a terrific silent film this Saturday starring William S. Hart, cinema’s first major cowboy star. Thursday, June 19 (7:30 p.m.) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Warner Bros., 2007, R-rated*) Robert Ford, an eager recruit into the notorious James-Younger Gang, comes to grow …
Posted in: National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
Our focus on Westerns this month continues. Thursday, June 12 (7:30 p.m.) Monte Walsh (National General, 1970) Acclaimed cinematographer William A. Fraker made his directorial debut with this melancholy Western about a down-and-out ranch hand who finds himself part of a dying west. Lee Marvin stars as the title character with Jack Palance (in a …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The Library’s moving image collections are large (1.4 million film reels and videotapes with more arriving every day) and almost unimaginably diverse. We may not have every film or television show ever produced, but it’s a rare occurrence when Moving Image Research Center staff can’t help a patron find at least a little something related …
Posted in: Film/Video, LGBTQ, Motion Pictures
Posted by: Mike Mashon
Like a lot of boomers, The Brady Bunch (ABC, 1969-1974) was a beloved television show of my early youth. It was easy to envy the Bradys. They lived in a large, airy house with a big kitchen, a magnificent open staircase, and, especially, a yard made out of artificial turf. Occasionally a celebrity like Joe …
Posted in: Copyright, Television
Posted by: Mike Mashon
Thursday, June 5 (7:30 p.m.) “Range Busters” Double Feature “The Range Busters” was a lucrative film series of 24 Westerns on the adventures of a trio of cowboys, produced by George W. Weeks and distributed by Monogram Pictures. Many of the movies were filmed at the Corriganville Movie Ranch. B-Western actor Ray “Crash” Corrigan came …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater