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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (January 15-17, 2015)

Posted by: Mike Mashon

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. We continue our series celebrating the work of the Packard Campus Film Preservation Lab. Thursday, January 15 (7:30 p.m.) Nothing But a Man (Cinema V, 1964) A groundbreaking work filmed during the tumult of the civil rights movement, this …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (January 8-10, 2015)

Posted by: Mike Mashon

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. We’re starting 2015 by celebrating the Packard Campus Film Preservation Laboratory’s work all month. The process of preserving a motion picture can be a long and tedious endeavor. Repairing old, fragile film frame-by-frame can take weeks, followed by extensive …

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New Year’s Eve with NBC

Posted by: Karen Fishman

Within the Library’s NBC Radio History Collection there is an amazing and comprehensive card catalog of network programs, performers and guests from 1930 to 1960. The 8 x 5 inch cards give a complete history of commercial and sustaining programs (programs without a sponsor and with no advertising), performers and artists, and “radio personalities”  including …

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Our Favorite Scrooge

Posted by: Karen Fishman

Of all the roles I’ve done, the one I’d like best to be remembered for is Scrooge. It is unquestionably one of my favorites. Lionel Barrymore, Dec. 21, 1947. The New York Times. (Interview with Dorothy O’Leary). When MGM Records released A Christmas Carol in 1947, Lionel Barrymore had been playing Ebenezer Scrooge for twelve …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (December 18-20, 2014)

Posted by: Mike Mashon

The following is  guest post by Jenny Paxson, Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus and the Packard Campus Theater programmer for December. We finish 2014 with a quartet of wonderful holiday films, and as a special added attraction, here’s the trailer for Remember the Night, which will close out the calendar Saturday at 7:30 pm. …

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Gargantuan Graphophone Records

Posted by: Bryan Cornell

At some point time around the year 2008 the last physical audio format, the cd, seems to have nearly winked out of existence. Its replacement? An army of wispy, intangible files including mp3, .aiff, wave, ogg vorbis, flac and many others.  Of course, many of these formats produce very high-quality audio, and I can now pack a collection of …

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Who We Are: Kelly Chisholm, Moving Image Processing Technician

Posted by: Mike Mashon

The following is a guest post by Kelly Chisholm. Hello! When I tell people I work with the Library’s film and video collections, they’re often curious about what my job as a Processing Technician entails and how I trained for it, so I thought I would try to answer both those questions here. I discovered …