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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (September 11-13, 2014)

Posted by: Mike Mashon

The following is a guest post by Film Preservation Specialist Carol Galbraith, who programmed the Packard Campus Theater September schedule. It’s not as easy as you’d think to program a theater schedule, even for just one month. I wanted to please a lot of people. Everyone had an idea of what to show, and all …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (September 4-6, 2014)

Posted by: Mike Mashon

A Robin Williams tribute and the always-wonderful Jack Benny in his best screen performance highlight this week at the Packard Campus Theater. Thursday, September 4 (7:30 p.m.) To Be or Not to Be (United Artists, 1942) Jack Benny stars as “that great, great actor” Joseph Tura, whose Polish theater troupe is put out of business …

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“Meet” Martha Rountree

Posted by: Mike Mashon

The following is a guest post by Cary O’Dell, Assistant to the National Recording Preservation Board. You might never have heard of her, but Martha Rountree is one of the most important women in the history of American broadcasting. The longevity of her “product” rivals Lucille Ball’s. Her importance and influence is as esteemed as …

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Kachank! A Back-to-School Miscellany from the National Jukebox

Posted by: Bryan Cornell

 Kachank? That’s the sound that signals summer’s end as returning students slam locker doors while swarming high school corridors, yelling, jostling and creating general chaos. Nevertheless, in the windy, rainy and icy days ahead, the Library of Congress National Jukebox can provide you many songs that evoke summers past and prepare you to face the coming school (or …