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Posted by: Cary O’Dell
Since its inception, the National Recording Registry has been about far more than just music. (Though, of course, music–of all kinds–plays an important part in the Registry.) A case in point is this 1952 recording of the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas who was recorded reading his seminal prose poem “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.” …
Posted in: National Recording Registry
Posted by: Stacie Seifrit-Griffin
Today, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced the annual selection of 25 films into the Library of Congress National Film Registry. Films are selected based on their cultural, historic and/or aesthetic importance, and must be at least 10 years old. This year’s selections bring the number of films in the registry to 850, …
Posted in: National Film Registry, National Screening Room, Uncategorized
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! At least as far as this weekend’s movies are concerned. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2022 @ 7:30pm Christmas in Connecticut (Warner Bros., 1945) Barbara Stanwyck stars in the lovely Christmas confection as an unmarried, big city magazine writer who, to sell her homey stories, poses as a farm …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
At one time, the inner sanctum of the psychologist’s office was among the most hallowed of spaces. It was never pierced by outsiders and certainly not by cameras. But, over the past decade, client-therapist confidentiality has often been waived as these one-on-one sessions have become fodder for everything from daily TV talk shows to installments …
Posted in: Motion Pictures
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
Cold, foreign and frightening that’s what we have in store for you this weekend at the Packard Campus Theater. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2022 @ 7:30pm The Ascent (International Film Circuit, 1977) Soviet partisans try to survive a cold Russian winter and do so contending with their German Nazi occupiers. (B&W, 117 minutes; Russian and German …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
Here are some of the titles from the Library’s motion picture collections–many preserved by the NAVCC 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. Filmoteca Española Madrid, Spain THE FOUNTAINHEAD (1949) …
Posted in: Film Loans, Uncategorized
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
In 2005, the album “We’re Only in It for the Money” by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention” was added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry. Recently, we asked Dweezil Zappa–an accomplished musician in his own right–to look back at the album from a perspective that only he can give us–a son’s. …
Posted in: National Recording Registry
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
It’s time to get frozen! Or, at least, ready for winter. There’s a chill in the air, why not come and see some cool movies? FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2022 @ 7:30pm Sky Pilot (First National, 1921) King Vidor directed this snowbound film about a preacher (a “sky pilot”) who helps Colleen Moore walk again after …
Posted in: Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Laura Jenemann
In 1969, the Recording Industry Association of America offered to donate a collection of recordings to the White House “reflecting the wide range of American interest in recorded music, as well as drama, prose and poetry” (White House Historical Association, 1973). This donation resulted in the White House Record Library, a collection of approximately 2,000 …
Posted in: Recorded Sound, Recorded Sound Research Center