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Posted by: Cary O’Dell
We continue with our collection of unlabeled, unidentified movie and TV stills and we hope you can help us. Below are shots of various ladies and, if you think you know who they are, please post in the “comments” section below. For a better, bigger look at the photos, please “click” on the image. As …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Television, Unidentified Stills
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
It is week number seven for the Library of Congress’s collection of “mystery stills.” This week we focus on six stills that seem to belong to productions made outside of–but probably shown in–the US As always, please feel free to post thoughts or guesses in the “Comments” section below. As images are positively ID’ed, we’ll update this blog …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, Television, Unidentified Stills
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
This week, in the Library’s ongoing series of unknown publicity stills, we look at a set of photps that seem to be television-related, perhaps local or national. As always, clicking on any of the photos below will increase their size. We welcome any information on program or performers in the comments section below. If a particular still …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, Television, Unidentified Stills
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
While it’s natural that people would associate the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division with, well, film, video, and sound recordings, we have a tremendous amount of associated documentation like scripts, lobby cards, pressbooks, and copyright descriptive material. We also have well more than a million publicity stills, a fraction of which we’ve used …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Recorded Sound, Television, Uncategorized, Unidentified Stills
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
David Susskind was one of the most prolific yet overlooked producers in the history of American film and television. Susskind’s company Talent Associates (TA for short) was responsible for dozens of feature films and thousands of hours of small screen entertainment over the years. Included in his oeuvre are the sitcoms Get Smart, He & …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Television
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
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Friday, February 19 (7:30pm) Tarzan: Tarzan’s Deadly Silence (NBC/1966) Though he first swung into theaters in 1918, played by Elmo Lincoln, the Lord of the Jungle first came to TV in the personage of Ron Ely in 1968 over …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus Theater, Television
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant the Packard Campus. Friday, February 5, 2016 (7:30pm) Playhouse 90: Requiem for a Heavyweight (CBS, 1956) If the Golden Age of Television can claim to have any gems in it, then surely this Rod Serling original is one of them. Originally aired October …
Posted in: National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus Theater, Television, Valentine's Day