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Archive: May 2019 (11 Posts)

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Happy Birthday, Bob Hope!

Posted by: Karen Fishman

This is a guest post by Frances Allshouse and Susie Booth, librarian/catalogers in the Moving Image Section. Wednesday, May 29, 2019, would have been Bob Hope’s 116th birthday and we couldn’t let the day go by without a bit of a celebration.  This year, our gift is the recently-formed Bob Hope moving image processing project. …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (May 30 – June 1, 2019)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, May 30 (7:30 p.m.) Vibrations, 1972 (WNET, 1972) Produced for PBS by WNET, Vibrations was a music magazine program that ran for only one season, (1972-73) and covered a wide assortment of musical genres. The selected segments for this program include …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus (May 23, 2019)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, May 23 (7:30 p.m.) Whitman in Culpeper – followed by Shenandoah (Universal, 1965) For two months in early 1864, poet, essayist, and journalist Walt Whitman (1819-1892) resided in Culpeper, Virginia, while serving as a volunteer nurse in the Army of the …

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Recorded Sound Research at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Karen Fishman

Curious about doing research in the recorded sound collections of the Library of Congress but don’t know where to start? Then this blog post is for you! Here we’ll discuss finding materials in our collections, offer some search strategies, and point out how to get in touch should you have further questions or want to …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (May 16 – 18, 2019)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, May 16 (7:30 p.m.) Hotel Rwanda (United Artists, 2004) Shown in observance of the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, which occurred during the spring of 1994, Hotel Rwanda stars Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina and his …

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Film Night at the Mary Pickford Theater: Thursday, May 16

Posted by: Karen Fishman

Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 7:00 p. m. Every month, films from the Library’s collection are shown at the Mary Pickford Theater in the James Madison building, ranging from titles newly preserved by the National Audio Visual Conservation Center film lab, classics from the National Film Registry, and lesser known titles worthy of discovery. WHO’S …

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Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams: A Vision of Early TV as More Than Ephemeral Entertainment

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

Guest post by Ben Model, archivist for Ediad Productions Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams were artists and innovators in ways that went far beyond the film and TV work they were best known for. Best known for using video effects in his comedy or for his portrayals of Mr. Question Man, the Nairobi Trio and Percy …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (May 9 – 11, 2019)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, May 9 (7:30 p.m.) The Woman in the Window (RKO, 1944) In this psychological thriller, an unassuming college professor (Edward G. Robinson) becomes involved with a beautiful model (Joan Bennett) and finds himself ensnared in a web of blackmail, deception and …