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Posted by: Cary O’Dell
A repost from yesterday’s blog of the Library of Congress by Librarian of Congress Carla D. Hayden The National Film Preservation Board meets at the Library this morning. Photo by Shawn Miller. Something exciting is happening today. Of course, there are always exciting things happening at the Library of Congress, but today I want to take …
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Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, November 1 (7:30 p.m.) The Dawn Patrol (First National, 1930) Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. co-star as two ace pilots in a Royal Flying Corps squadron dealing with the stress of combat in France during World War I. John Monk …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater, World War I
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
As Sally Field’s long-awaited memoir, In Pieces, arrives in bookstores, author Gabriel Miller looks back at her breakthrough film role, Martin Ritt’s Norma Rae, which was added to the National Film Registry in 2008. See the essay below: “Norma Rae“ (1978)
Posted in: Film Essay, Motion Pictures, National Film Registry
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 25 (7:30 p.m.) Homicidal (Columbia, 1961) The horror films produced and directed by William Castle were often more famous for their promotional gimmicks than their effectiveness as movies. This one was typical of Castle’s carnival barker approach with its tagline …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
With its much-anticipated sequel arriving in theaters October 18th, author Murray Leeder looks back at the original 1978 “Halloween”–added to the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry in 2006–and how it was a cut above so many other films of its time. See the essay below: https://www.loc.gov/programs/static/national-film-preservation-board/documents/halloween.pdf
Posted in: Film Essay, Motion Pictures, National Film Registry
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 18 (7:30 p.m.) An Evening of Folk, Blues, Soul and Rock Highlights from ‘Soundstage (1974-1982) Soundstage is a live concert television series produced by WTTW Chicago and distributed by PBS. The original series aired between 1974 and 1985; it was …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 11 (7:30 p.m.) The Wiz (Universal, 1978) Charlie Smalls’s jazzy, updated version of The Wizard of Oz won seven Tony Awards on Broadway in 1975, and was brought to the screen three years later with Diana Ross taking the lead …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, Musical Theater, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
On Monday, November 5 at 7:30 pm, American songwriter, composer and singer Jimmy Webb will be joined by multiple Grammy Award-winning country music singer-songwriter Marty Stuart in a live performance as part of the ongoing “Marty Stuart Sessions” concert series at the Packard Campus Theater. Since his first platinum hit “The Worst That Could Happen,” …
Posted in: National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
In November, the Packard Campus Theater will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One with three feature films that take place during the conflict: Howard Hawk’s original version of The Dawn Patrol, released in 1930 and starring Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Wings (1927), directed by William A. Wellman and …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater, Uncategorized, World War I