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...
View ArticleCaptain 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...
View Article1897 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...
View ArticleRestored 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...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticlePordenone 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleMillions 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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