The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, January 17 (7:30 p.m.) Selma (Paramount, 2014) David Oyelowo stars as Martin Luther King, Jr. in this award-winning drama based on the Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches in 1965 led by King, James Bevel, Hosea Williams and John Lewis. Directed …
The following is a guest post by David Jackson, Manuscript Archivist, Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation. The finding aid for the papers in the Bob Hope Collection is now available to researchers, providing access to 770 linear feet of textual materials, and 91 feet of photographic materials. The finding aid is accessible online via …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, January 10 (7:30 p.m.) Ed Sullivan’s Toast of the Town (CBS, 1948-1954) The American institution known as The Ed Sullivan Show was first titled Toast of the Town when it began broadcasting live from New York on June 20, 1948 – …
Tuesday, January 15th, 2018, at 6:30 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 …
Yesterday was a pretty momentous day in America, and not just because so many of us got a head start on breaking New Year’s resolutions. It also was a significant milestone in the history of intellectual property rights for a variety of expressive works, including motion pictures. Put simply, motion pictures with renewed copyrights published …
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. January 2, 5, 13, 2019 “Bringing Up Baby” (1938) Cinematheque Seoul Art …
