The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Wednesday, September 27 (7:30 p.m.) Dom Flemons (Live)–SOLD OUT! Dom Flemons is a Grammy Award-winning, rootsy singer/songwriter with a bent toward Americana, folk, banjo, and jug band music. Flemons first came to the public’s attention as a member and co-founder of the African-American …
The following is a guest post by: Rosemary Hall and Rebecca Thayer, working this summer at the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. “If we fishermen and boatmen get together, we can give Adolf’s subs a run for their money.” -Captain John Bogan, 1942 The Library of Congress’ collections are many and varied, and …
I spent a good deal of early 2016 planning for the Orphan Film Symposium, reviewing proposals with my co-programmer Dan Streible. Since we already knew that the theme would be Sound, I also started spelunking our collection for films about sound in all its many aspects that could either be screened at Orphans, blogged about, …
