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Archive: June 2022 (8 Posts)

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS’S PACKARD CAMPUS RESUMES THEATER SCREENINGS!

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater will reopen its doors to patrons with a new season of film screenings on Fridays and Saturdays, beginning July 15. The relaunch of the film screenings at the art deco theater has several new offerings focused on a different theme every month. In July, “Packard Campus Potpourri” will …

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From the National Film Registry: “Nanook of the North” Released 100 Years Ago

Posted by: Stacie Seifrit-Griffin

  One hundred years ago this month, the film “Nanook of the North” premiered at New York City’s Capitol Theatre.  It has been watched and discussed ever since, as a complicated combination of art and ethnography, docudrama and reenactment, exploitation and cooperation. Today, we look back on the film with an essay from Patricia Zimmermann …

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They Start the Victrola and Go Dancing Around

Posted by: Library of Congress

They Start the Victrola by Billy Murray This post was written by Recorded Sound Reference Specialist David Sager Recorded dance music needs no introduction, it has been a staple of the recording industry for decades. Whether techno, disco, rockabilly, or ballroom – records are for dancing! When Billy Murray described the dancers on the recording …

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PBS Goes for Laughs: “The Steven Banks Show” of 1994

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

With the exception of some carefully chosen British imports, you might not normally associate public television with broad-based comedy.  But, in 1994, America’s own PBS did something that they’ve never done since:  they produced and aired a 30-minute sitcom. The program, “The Steven Banks Show,” ran for 13 episodes in 1994.  Five episodes of the …

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Film Loans from the Library of Congress — June 2022

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.   Autry Museum of the American West   …