Top of page
Posted by: Karen Fishman
This blog post is by David Sager, Research Assistant in the Recorded Sound Research Center. This post celebrates the Centennial of the signing of the Armistice and makes use of recordings in the Library of Congress’s National Jukebox and images found in the Library’s Recorded Sound Research Center. These mementos are a stirring reminder of the …
Posted in: Advertising, Early Recording Industry, Jukebox, Recorded Sound, World War I
Posted by: Amanda Jenkins
Screened in conjunction with The Road Back: Veterans and Literary Writing Symposium on veterans’ “road back,” focusing on the use of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction as a means of healing from the trauma of war, and presented by the Library’s Poetry and Literature Center, Veterans History Project, and Exhibits Office, the Mary Pickford Theater …
Posted in: Film/Video, Mary Pickford Theater, Motion Pictures, World War I
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, November 1 (7:30 p.m.) The Dawn Patrol (First National, 1930) Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. co-star as two ace pilots in a Royal Flying Corps squadron dealing with the stress of combat in France during World War I. John Monk …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater, World War I
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
In November, the Packard Campus Theater will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One with three feature films that take place during the conflict: Howard Hawk’s original version of The Dawn Patrol, released in 1930 and starring Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Wings (1927), directed by William A. Wellman and …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater, Uncategorized, World War I
Posted by: Mike Mashon
During the centenary observance of World War I, we’ve been prioritizing the preservation of films in our collection pertaining to the conflict. Foremost among these is a film called On the Firing Line With the Germans, shot in 1915 by Wilbur H. Durborough and his cameraman Irving Ries. Library staff members George Willeman and …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures, World War I