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Posted by: Mike Mashon
I am guest programmer for April, and this week features the most recent film by my favorite director working today, another representing the great flowering of American cinema in the 1970s when I really fell in love with the movies, and the first silent film I ever saw, the one that set me on my …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Kelly Chisholm, a Processing Technician in the Moving Image Section. Back in December, I posted an entry about three versions of a film I found in the J. Fred MacDonald Collection; today, I return with a story about another film from that collection to illustrate a little more …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures, National Film Registry
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, March 12 (7:30 p.m.) The Girl Next Door (20th Century-Fox, 1953) When widowed cartoonist Bill Carter (Dan Dailey) falls in love with his beautiful new neighbor, Broadway star Jeannie Laird (June Haver), it causes a rift with his …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Our final week highlighting selections from the National Film Registry. Thursday, February 26 (7:30 p.m.) The Gang’s All Here (20th Century-Fox, 1943) In The Gang’s All Here, a soldier (James Ellison), who turns out to be a rich playboy …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. We’re dark this weekend because of the President’s Day holiday, so only one National Film Registry screening this week…but it’s a good one, well-timed for Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Thursday, February 12 (7:30 p.m.) Young Mr. Lincoln (20th Century-Fox, 1939) …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. This month, the Packard Campus Theater celebrates the National Film Registry, those films deemed by the Librarian of Congress in consultation with the National Film Preservation Board to be of special cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance. Thursday, Feb. 5 …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The National Audio-Visual Conservation Center has garnered a fair amount of media attention over the years and 2014 was no exception. Here’s a selection of print and broadcast stories from last year that, taken together, provide a good overview of who we are and what we do. The announcement of new additions to the National …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, National Film Registry, National Recording Registry, Recorded Sound, Television
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 …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
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 …
Posted in: National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater