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Aliens & Music, pt. 2: The Amazing Story Behind The Wisdom of Sun Ra

As I only just posted about, Chicago’s Whitewalls Press published in the spring of 2006 a thin but essential volume entitled The Wisdom of Sun Ra: Sun Ra’s Polemical Broadsheets and Streetcorner...

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Captain Midnight Commands: Catch the Wave

Ah yes, I remember it well! “During a broadcast of the Dr. Who episode Horror of Fang Rock on WTTW Chicago Channel 11, on Sunday November 22nd, 1987, at around 11:15pm, a Video “Pirate” wearing a Max...

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People as Pixels

Awesomeness from Dark Roasted Blend:

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1897 Film Footage of Palestine Recovered by Lobster Films

Serge Bromberg of Lobster Films, a film preservation company based in Paris, reports that 93 small reels of motion picture footage shot in 1897 in Palestine has been recovered and are now being...

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Indianapolis Greyhound Bus Terminal, circa late 1940s

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Restored 1897 Films of Palestine & Middle East to Debut at Pordenone Silent...

As first reported here in July, 93 reels of motion picture film footage shot in 1897 in Palestine and other Middle Eastern locations were recovered earlier this year by Lobster Films from an antique...

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More on Lobster Films’ Rescued 1897 Movies of the Middle East

As I’ve noted previously (here and here [with stills]), early in 2007 Lobster Films in Paris recovered 93 reels of previously unknown actuality and dramatic footage from various locations in the Middle...

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Pordenone Festival Catalog Entry on the 1897 Middle East Films

For further background, please see my previous posts here, here, and here. Following is the official English translation from pages 120-121 of the catalog for the 2007 Pordenone Silent Film Festival...

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A Photo-Tour of the National Archives and LOC

Tonight I stumbled upon a pithy and entertaining (if sporadic) anonymous history blog called Historians’ Corner, which has some fascinating stuff about the Alsos secret mission at the end of World War...

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Millions of Photographs from the LIFE Photo Archive

The LIFE magazine photo archive hosted by Google has “millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the...

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