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Posted by: Mike Mashon
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen. But do you recall that the most famous reindeer of all was the creation of a Montgomery Ward copywriter? And did you know we have that celebrity reindeer’s first appearance on film, in a version rarely seen before? In …
Posted in: Christmas, Film/Video, Motion Pictures, National Film Registry
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. …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Kelly Chisholm, a Processing Technician in the Moving Image Section. Yesterday I mentioned the J. Fred MacDonald Collection; it is a collection of 40,000+ reels that many of my colleagues in the Moving Image Section have spent a good percentage of our time working on over the last …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures
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. Thursday, December 11 (7:30 p.m.) The Castle (Miramax, 1997) This charming Australian comedy was the biggest cinematic hit in 1997 in its native land. After it played at the Sundance Film Festival, Roger …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, Packard Campus Theater
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’re all film buffs of some kind or another, having our favorite genres, stars, decades and movies. I am one of the lucky ones, a professional film buff who gets to combine my …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
In the varied universe of educational films–titles like Facts on Film, which we’ve featured on “Now See Hear!”–few have achieved a wider cultural resonance than the 1947 Coronet Films classic Are You Popular? It’s pretty much the epitome of the type of “social guidance” film that to modern audiences can seem unintentionally hilarious in their …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, November 20 (7:30 p.m.) A Night of Electric Blues: Great Blues Performances on TV (1955-1989) Selected from the Library’s video collections and digitally restored by Video Preservation Specialists at the Packard Campus, this memorable evening features legendary blues artists …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, Packard Campus Theater, Television
Posted by: Mike Mashon
It’s natural that the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center is associated with film, video, and sound recordings–we are, after all, the custodial Division for the Library’s A/V holdings–but in reality we’re so much more than that. I’ve already featured some of our print material on “Now See Hear!”; for example, copyright descriptions, periodicals, posters, and lobby …
Posted in: Motion Pictures
Posted by: Mike Mashon
Thursday, November 13 (7:30 p.m.) Here’s Edie: The Best of Edie Adams on Television (1962-1964) Edie Adams (1927-2008) may be best known as the Muriel Cigar girl, for her movie roles in The Apartment and It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, or for being the wife of actor and comedian Ernie Kovacs. Her work …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, Packard Campus Theater