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Posted by: Cary O’Dell
L.A. NOIR. Los Angeles, the City of Angels, ground zero for film noir. From the pages of a Raymond Chandler novel to the embodiment of his detective Philip Marlowe on the big screen, L.A., the city itself, has been a main character. The seedy, dark side of Los Angeles explained in books found the perfect …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
What is the Spanish word for “terror”? You’ll find out if you watch George Melford’s 1931 US-made but Spanish-language adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic novel. Filmed concurrently with the US/Bela Lugosi-version, “Drácula” is considered by many film scholars to be better than the English version. This version was added to the Library of Congress’ National …
Posted in: Film Essay, Motion Pictures, National Film Registry
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
This coming weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (19053 Mt. Pony Road / Culpeper, VA) Be afraid, be VERY AFRAID! There are “Monsters Among Us” (our theme for this month) and some are man and some are man-made! FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28 @ 7:30 p.m. Suspiria (20th Century-Fox, 1977) Dancing monsters? No, but dancers subjected to …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
This coming weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (19053 Mt. Pony Road / Culpeper, VA) Our trip through the seedier side of Los Angeles ends this weekend with a more recent classic of the L.A. noir sub-genre and an all-star animated cast who find themselves embroiled in some shady and shadowing dealings. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater, Uncategorized
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
Eighty-three years ago, on October 19, 1939, the Capra classic “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” had its debut in–where else?–Washington, DC. Named by the Librarian of Congress to the Library’s National Film Registry in 1989, “Mr. Smith” is, for better or worse, as timely today as it ever was. In the essay below, the late …
Posted in: Film Essay, National Recording Registry
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
This coming weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (19053 Mt. Pony Road / Culpeper, VA) “I used to have demons in my room at night,”…but now they are at the Packard Campus Theater and we spend the month looking at “Monsters Among Us” or, at least, in the movies. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21 @ 7:30 …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by David Gibson and David Sager of the Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress. Since its initial launch in 2011, the National Jukebox has provided researchers the ability to stream thousands of acoustic sound recordings from the very earliest days of the commercial record industry. As the …
Posted in: Early Recording Industry, Jukebox, Recorded Sound, Recorded Sound Research Center
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
This coming weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (19053 Mt. Pony Road / Culpeper, VA) Who wants to be scared? This month–of course, October–the Packard Campus Theater looks at “Monsters Among Us.” FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 @ 7:30 p.m. The Night of the Hunter (United Artists, 1955) Robert Mitchum looks like a good guy but …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Matthew Barton
Even if you have been to the Recorded Sound Research Center of the Library of Congress in person, most of you never met Larry Miller, a longtime staff member of the section who died suddenly on September 26th. But if you have used the Library’s recorded sound holdings in some way, whether as a researcher …
Posted in: Jukebox, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Recorded Sound