“Cousin Jules”— A Rural Life
posted February 26, 2014
In "Cousin Jules" (1973), Dominique Benicheti depicted an elderly blacksmith and his wife living low to the earth in Burgundy. He also created a documentary film that was remarkable in its day, and remains so, now.
FCC Announces New “Rules” for Closed Captioning
posted February 22, 2014
The FCC has adopted new rules that will require broadcasters to perform much better closed captioning with television and Internet programming. Performance Tom Wheeler, the recently appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. And that is a fundamental failure of the telecommunications industry and federal regulators, he implied: “Reliable and consistent access to news and information for deaf and hard-of-hearing communities is a right,
China Girls, Leading Ladies, Actual Women
posted February 21, 2014
From the days before color film until the early 1990s hundreds of anonymous women graced more motion-picture film reels than perhaps any film star. And yet movie-goers never saw them; they, and their purpose, were known only to film-lab workers and projectionists.
They don’t make ’em like this…
posted February 3, 2014
Imagine if this had been lost to posterity. They don’t make em like Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens, any more. Here they are sometime in the early 1940s on a Soundie in the extraordinary Prelinger Archives (on the Internet Archive @ archive.org). You can select from three versions there, depending on what you have
The Great War in Film and Cultural Memory
posted February 3, 2014
"Europeana 1914-1918," a vast online amalgamation of resources relating to World War I, includes some 660 hours of film reflecting the military and civilian involvement of many nations.