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Posted by: Karen Fishman
The following is a guest post by David Jackson, Archivist, Bob Hope Collection, and Matt Barton, Curator, Recorded Sound. “This chronicle of suffering and destruction is not presented in defense of an enemy. It is broadcast as a warning that what happened to the people of Hiroshima, a year ago, could next happen anywhere.” So …
Posted in: Radio, Recorded Sound
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
Thanks to all who reviewed and commented on our inaugural post last week of unknown film stills. Since last week we posted a series of unknown women, this week, we offer up a series of unknown men. Any suggestions, thoughts, or even speculation on who any of these gentlemen might be is gratefully appreciated and …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Radio, Television, Unidentified Stills
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, a Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. AT THE PACKARD CAMPUS THEATER, CULPEPER, VA: Thursday, August 11 (7:30 p.m.) Raise the Red Lantern (Orion Classics, 1991) This spectacularly photographed, sumptuously colored drama set in Northern China in the 1920s tells the story of 19-year-old Songlian (Gong …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus Theater, Radio, Recorded Sound
Posted by: Karen Fishman
The following is a guest post by David Jackson, Archivist, Bob Hope Collection, Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation. Recently I began the task of processing the papers for the Bob Hope Collection, held in the Recorded Sound Section, at the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia. The papers complement the moving …
Posted in: Radio, Recorded Sound
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Matt Barton, Curator of Recorded Sound at the Library of Congress. Friday, April 15 (7:30 p.m.) Play Misty for Me (Universal, 1971 – R-rated *) Late-night jazz disc jockey and inveterate playboy Clint Eastwood plays the field like he plays records on his show, but meets his match …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus Theater, Radio
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The Packard Campus is excited to host to the tenth edition of the Orphan Film Symposium, April 6-9, 2016; the theme is “Sound,” both with and without moving images. “Orphans X” is presented in conjunction with New York University Cinema Studies and its Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program. You can register for Orphans X …
Posted in: Film/Video, Orphan Film Symposium, Radio
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Friday, February 26 (7:30pm) The Night That Panicked America (ABC, 1975) Radio meets television in this docu-drama that looks back at Orson Welles’s and the Mercury Theater’s infamous “War of the Worlds” broadcast from October 30, 1938. Paul Shenar …
Posted in: National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus Theater, Radio, Television