Archive: April 2017 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Mike Mashon; (Year) 2017; (Month) April

A view looking past a digital display screen towards the doors of an indoor theater, with

Bessie Smith in St. Louis Blues (RKO, 1929)

April 26, 2017

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

How Radio Works (or) The Wizardry of Wireless (1922)

April 5, 2017

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

Refined by: (Author) Mike Mashon; (Year) 2017; (Month) April