The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, November 12 (7:30 p.m.) William Wellman Double Feature Wild Boys of the Road (Warner Bros., First National, 1933) Historians estimate that more than 250,000 American teens were living on the road at the height of the Great Depression, …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, November 5 (7:30 p.m.) Lafayette Escadrille (Warner Bros., 1958) Relying on his own World War I service in the Lafayette Flying Corps, director William A. Wellman also wrote the original story for what became the final film released …
The following is a guest post by Audio Preservation Specialist Brad McCoy. Collections tend to take pride of place in any discussion of moving images and sound recordings at the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation. It’s understandable — we like talking about the more than 5 million items in our collective care. But we’re …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant and the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 29 (7:30 p.m.) Back to the Future Part III (Universal, 1990) The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty (Michael J. Fox) digging the DeLorean time machine out of a mineshaft to travel …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Wednesday, October 21 (7:30 p.m.) Back to the Future Part II (Universal, 1989) The Future has arrived. Picking up where Back to the Future left off, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), his girlfriend Jennifer (Elisabeth Shue), and Doc Brown …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 15 (7:30 p.m.) Back to the Future (Universal, 1985) Writer/director Robert Zemeckis explored the possibilities of special effects in the 1985 box-office smash Back to the Future. With his writing partner Bob Gale, Zemeckis tells the tale …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 8 (7:30 p.m.) The Errand Boy (Paramount, 1961) Following the great success of his directorial debut with The Bellboy (playing at Culpepers historic State Theatre in cooperation with the Library of Congress on October 9 as part …
Ah, September. The first hints of cooler fall weather, football season starts, and baseball pennant races heat up…even as we ruefully acknowledge that Washington Nationals fever isn’t quite where it was last year. For those of us who toil in the federal vineyards, September also marks the end of the fiscal year. I recently attended …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 1 (7:30 p.m.) Reservoir Dogs (Miramax, 1992, R-rated*) With his directorial debut of Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino went from being an unproduced screenwriter and part-time actor to one of the most influential filmmakers of the 1990s. In …