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Queen of The Mountain Theresa Goell started her career as an archaeologist with four strikes against her: she was a female, divorced, a Jew working with Muslims and hearing impaired. Goell worked on Bryn Mawr's excavations at Tarsus in Turkey and went on to lead the excavation of Nemrud Dagh. Read more...
From The Scout Report:
"Black Maria Film and Video Festival Celebrates Twenty Five Year Anniversary
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5187124
Black Maria Film Festival [Real Player]
http://www.blackmariafilmfestival.org/
Edison Film and Sound: History of Edison Motion Pictures
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhist1.html
Edison National Historic Site: Virtual Tour
http://www.nps.gov/edis/edisonia/virtual%20tour/labmain.htm
Metropolitan Police Service: Black Marias
http://www.met.police.uk/history/black_marias.htm
Questions & Answers: Black Maria
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bla1.htm
From filmjourney.org:
"Occasionally, I'll check out the revolving exhibitions at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences here in Los Angeles, which often amount to a one-room setup on their fourth floor. Invariably, I'm the only person around whenever I attend, but the exhibitions do tend to run for weeks. So I visited their current exhibition, "Moving Spaces: Production Design + Film," this weekend with modest expectations--which were wonderfully surpassed. The expo was originally curated by the Berlin Filmmuseum, whose official website is a treasure trove of information. (Including 48 pages of illustrated, free PDFs.)"
From today's Daily Pennsylvanian:
Academic exemption sought for laws that limit DVD replication
http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/03/17/441a7d6d39fd7
The website for the Philadelphia Film Festival is now up!
Chris Pavsek of Haverford will have his film TO THOSE BORN AFTER screened during the festival as part of a program of film shorts.
The Bryn Mawr Film Institute will host an Evening with the Curators of the Philadelphia Film Fesitival for an inside look at this year's film selection process on Thursday, March 16 at 7:30 in the Cafe Seville. It's free for BMFI Members, $4.00 for non-members.
As part of the program to make National Archive material available online, last month Google Video added 101 audiovisual clips from the Archives. The films include government newsreels from the WWII era and NASA footage.
http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2006/nr06-64.html
The tennis courts from BLOW UP are still there!
From WFMU'S Beware of the Blog. Includes locales from HAROLD AND MAUDE, LA DOLCE VITA, THE BIRDS, PSYCHO and more...
Ballets Russes From Zeitgeist films: "Unearthing a treasure trove of archival footage, filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have fashioned a dazzlingly entrancing ode to the revolutionary twentieth-century dance troupe..." find out more...
Wild Swans The story of Jung Chang, her mother and her grandmother, three generations of Chinese women in China during the 20th century. find out more...
From the Librarian's Internet Index:
"Use this website from the British National Archives to view public information films. "The first selection of films from 1945 - 1951 features some fascinating events from Britain's [post-World War II history]." Includes a timeline, background about this period that was characterized by austerity and financial instability, and short movies on subjects such as surviving the fuel crisis, using a hankie when sneezing, the Berlin Airlift, and the Festival of Britain."
The current Chronicle of Higher Education features a nice essay by David Sterritt on the exciting recent dvd sets Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941, Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and '30s and By Brakhage: An Anthology.