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Copyright Breakdown: The Music Modernization Act

Posted by: Amanda Jenkins

Reference librarians in the Recorded Sound and Moving Image Research Centers get hundreds of questions each year about materials in the public domain. For films, which follow the current 95-year restrictions along with many other types of publications, the answer is fairly straightforward: if it was published before January 1, 1924 (as of January 1, …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus (Feb. 7 – 9, 2019)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

 The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, February 7 (7:30 p.m.) Bright Road (MGM, 1953) A year before Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte made the Cinemascope color musical Carmen Jones, they starred together in this low-budget but sincere drama about a rural teacher in a southern school trying …

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Film Night at the Mary Pickford Theater: Tuesday, February 12

Posted by: Amanda Jenkins

Tuesday, February 12th, 2018, 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. This month, …

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Film Loans from the Library of Congress — February 2019

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

Here are some of the titles preserved by our film laboratory that we’re loaning for exhibition this month. As always, we can’t guarantee that schedules won’t change or links get broken, but this is our best information at the time of publication. February 1 -11 , 2019 “Night Nurse” (1931) “Baby Face” (1931) “Strange Loves …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (Jan. 31 – Feb. 2, 2019)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, January 31 (7:30 p.m.) Wanda (Janus, 1970) The only feature film written and directed by Barbara Loden, Wanda is a stark road movie shot on 16mm film on a miniscule budget. The title character, as portrayed by Loden, is a drifter, …

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Remembering the Holocaust: The David P. Boder Collection

Posted by: Amanda Jenkins

January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day—to honor the millions of victims of the Holocaust and Nazism, to promote educational programs and events, and to prevent further genocide. The resolution, passed in 2005 by the United Nations General Assembly, condemns religious persecution and intolerance, rejects all forms of Holocaust denial, and encourages UN member states …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (Jan. 24 – 26, 2019)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, January 24 (7:30 p.m.) The X-Files: I Want to Believe (20th Century-Fox, 2008) When a disgraced priest claims to have visions of the disappearance of a current FBI agent, the agency calls on Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian …

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Inside the Archival Box: Press Books

Posted by: Amanda Jenkins

As Librarian-in-Residence in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, I have engaged in a lot of exploration of the Division’s collections. Among the many film and television treasures in the Moving Image Section are manuscript materials too—paper materials we have received as part of collections and items that were donated, purchased, and otherwise …

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At the Packard Campus Theater — February 2019

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The Packard Campus Theater celebrates Black History Month with a number of films featuring an all or nearly all black cast, including the best foreign language film Oscar winner for 1959, Black Orpheus, and the critically acclaimed and inspirational family film from 2006, Akeelah and the Bee. Romantic movies for Valentine’s Day and beyond include …