We’re pleased to be prominently listed on Film Studies for Free’s end-of-the-year list of “Favorite Online Film Studies Resources in 2011.” We’re grateful to Catherine Grant for including us and running this excellent blog. The end-of-the-year list contains links to some other terrific projects and blogs, including Luke McKernan’s blog
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One of the most popular genres of classic Hollywood cinema is the Pre-Code films – movies produced before the Production Code Administration became effective in 1934. Many of these films are outstanding in their depiction of recognizable human situations and male-female interactions – in marked contrast to the inconsequential fluff
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While we’re taking a break from magazine scanning today, having our turkey dinner on Thanksgiving, enjoy the cover image from the November 1929 issue of Movie Makers. Read the entire issue in the book reader below:
President Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated for his first term on March 4, 1933. The following day, Roosevelt called Congress in session to declare a four-day bank holiday. The movie studios used this emergency to implement across-the-board salary reductions, which although temporary, were not well received by stars or technical staff.
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While Black Friday advertisements are offering BluRay players at knock-down prices this autumn, it’s instructive to see that watching movies at home was once the province not only of movie insiders, but also the rich. This Kodascope ad from the back cover of the July 1929 issue of Movie Makers
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The Media History Digital Library is happy to be collaborating with Domitor in an effort to digitize the history of early cinema. Domitor, the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema, is a non-profit organization that holds a biennial conference and promotes research that examines cinema’s development during the
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This is our first monthly newsletter, to update all of you on our progress with the site and some of our plans. The Media History Digital Library website at http://www.mediahistoryproject.org launched in late September. We’ve been very appreciative of the feedback from fans of the site, and particularly glad to
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