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Posted by: Karen Fishman
This post was written by Matt Barton, curator of the Recorded Sound Section. The Big Band era and the Golden Age of Old Time Radio were long past in the summer of 1956, when NBC Bandstand hit the airwaves. Live performances by the great dance orchestras had been a staple of network radio in the 1930s …
Posted in: Mary Pickford Theater, Radio, Recorded Sound
Posted by: Karen Fishman
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. Thursday, December 19th at 7:00 p.m. KEY WITNESS (Columbia, 1947). …
Posted in: Film Noir, Film/Video, Mary Pickford Theater
Posted by: Karen Fishman
This blog post was written by Dorinda Hartmann, viewing technician in the Moving Image Research Center. On November 21, 1894, 125 years ago today, inventor Herman Casler submitted a patent for the Mutoscope, an early motion picture device. The Mutoscope was a single-person ‘peep show’ type of machine, coin-operated, and the floor model had a …
Posted in: Motion Pictures
Posted by: Karen Fishman
NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY Each year, the Librarian of Congress selects 25 films of enduring importance to American culture for inclusion in the National Film Registry. The selection takes into account thousands of titles nominated annually by the public, as well as recommendations of the National Film Preservation Board and the Library’s film curators. Once a …
Posted in: Mary Pickford Theater, Motion Pictures, National Film Registry
Posted by: Karen Fishman
NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY Each year, the Librarian of Congress selects 25 films of enduring importance to American culture for inclusion in the National Film Registry. The selection takes into account thousands of titles nominated annually by the public, as well as recommendations of the National Film Preservation Board and the Library’s film curators. Once a …
Posted in: Mary Pickford Theater, Motion Pictures, National Film Registry
Posted by: Karen Fishman
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. Thursday, October 24 at 7:00 p.m. TRICK OR …
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Posted by: Karen Fishman
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. Thursday, October 17th at 7:00 p.m. TEACHER’S PET After …
Posted in: Film/Video, Mary Pickford Theater, Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
Posted by: Karen Fishman
Today’s post is by Harrison Behl, Reference Librarian at the Recorded Sound Research Center. Shortly after the formation of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division in 1978, one of our first reference librarians, James Smart, compiled a listing of the radio broadcast recordings the Library had acquired to that point. Covering the years …
Posted in: NBC Radio Collection, Radio, Recorded Sound
Posted by: Karen Fishman
In conjunction with the exhibit Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote Thursday, October 10th at 7:00 p.m. SUFFRAGETTE A rare screen dramatization of the history of the women’s suffrage movement, an exceedingly underrepresented subject in cinema, this timely and stirring film portrays the personal and social awakening of a laundry worker …
Posted in: Film/Video, Mary Pickford Theater, Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center