The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, March 15 (7:30 p.m.) Jazz Greats on the Dick Cavett Show (ABC, 1971-72) Drawing from the nearly 2,000 hours of Dick Cavett’s decades-long talk-show series that Cavett donated to the Library of Congress last year, this program will highlight some of …
This post is by Cary O’Dell, of the Library of Congress, and Jane Klain, of the Paley Center for Media Among the thousands of books, periodicals, and reference works in the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Research Centers is a bound set of every press release issued by the National Broadcasting Company from its founding …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, March 30 (7:30 p.m.) Pay it Forward (Warner Bros., 2000) Emmy Award-winning director and producer (for E.R.) Mimi Leder helmed this drama based on the novel of the same name by Catherine Ryan Hyde. When given a class assignment to “make the …
It’s #14 of our unknown photos series! This time, we return to some photos that are of a musical nature–or so they seem. We welcome your suggestions regarding the names of the people in any of the shots below. As always, as they are identified, we will update this blog accordingly. As always as well, ”clicking” on any of the …
Here is another set of unknowns. These gentlemen may be actors, or they may be directors, writers, producers. And some might not be affiliated with film/TV at all–perhaps they are captains of industry, or TV hosts, or local anchormen. Regardless, we welcome your thoughts as to who they might be. Please place your educated guesses in the …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Wednesday, December 7 (7:30 p.m.) Tora! Tora! Tora! (20th Century-Fox, 1970) As a follow-up to the highly-regarded war film The Longest Day (1962), depicting the invasion of Normandy, Fox Studios set out to make a dramatization of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Seeking …
This time in the Library’s ongoing series of “mystery stills,” we return to what are probably film stills from some very obscure films. We welcome your assistance in telling us the titles or any of the performers pictured. As always, “clicking” on any of the images below will increase their size. As we verify the …
We look at some unidentified young people in this, the 11th, of our mystery photo series. We welcome your suggestions/answers as to these kids’ names in the “Comments” section below. As always, “clicking” on any of the images below will increase them in size. Also as always, as each photo is “solved,” we’ll update this …
Actually, these films do have names, titles, but, at present, we just don’t know what they are. We hope that you can help us out. If you know the films these stills are from, or any of the performers in them, please write it in the “comments” section below. As we determine the titles, we’ll update …
