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Contents | Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies 34, 2 From award-winning amateur filmmakers to leading Canada’s busiest commercial film company by the mid-twentieth century, F.R. “Budge” Crawley and his wife Judith were responsible for an eclectic body of work. Yet tourism promotion films remained a ...

New issue of Canadian Journal of Film & Media Studies recently dropped. Issue is devoted to Crawley Films, Canada’s largest sponsored film company in mid-20th century. With essays by Charles R. Acland and Liz Czach (issue editors) + seven other brilliant scholars!
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Spotted by @orphanfilm.bsky.social from Prelinger Archives @archive.org. YOUR FAMILY — a 1948 Coronet Film about how families should watch home movies together! Love to see it! 📽️🎞️

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Now streaming on Tubi: The #BillMorrison docty, DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME, featuring our @amianet.bsky.social colleagues, the late great Bill O'Farrell and Sam Kula, telling the story of lost nitrate films pulled from the frozen depths of a filled-in swimming pool in the Yukon. A must watch!

Camille | The Plaza Theatre

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Kevin Brownlow's biography of David Lean is required reading.

YouTube video by Tiny Dancer Sesame Street - Mahna Mahna (1969)

Today is the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Mahna Mahna on Sesame Street. You’re familiar with it by now, of course, but... well, it never hurts to be reminded, does it?

#HappyThanksgiving Enjoy this footage of the award-winning Monroe, GA, Girls Corps performing in the #MacysThanksgivingDayParades of 1965, '66, and '69: bmac.libs.uga.edu/Detail/objec...
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You'll be visited by three spirits."

Typewriter Tom fuels a growing interest in analog writing devices Roswell's Tom Rehkopf owns about 1,000 typewriters, which he tinkers with at his workshop and happily shares with fellow aficionados, curious youngsters and even Tom Hanks.

We love Typewriter Tom! ⌨️ Learn more about the man, the myth, the legend who supplied many of the typewriters you can find in Emory Libraries' current exhibit "Striking Characters", up through December 20th: www.ajc.com/arts-enterta...

Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching?

Good morning. This article by @alissawilkinson.bsky.social
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...

It's never too late (until the sale is over) to pick up a copy of my book 80s ACTION MOVIES ON THE CHEAP on sale. Do it today. mcfarlandbooks.com/product/80s-...

CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945) screens at Regal Cinemas nationwide Dec 18 to celebrate its 80th anniversary.

Stanwyck on the big screen. What a Christmas!

www.regmovies.com/movies/hs25-...
#FilmSky #TCMParty

The Philo Vance Radio Program Digital Preservation Project Digitally preserving 104 transcription discs (the complete series) of the radio program 'Philo Vance'

A new Kickstarter seeks to preserve + release the PHILO VANCE radio series.

All 104 episodes will be remastered from original discs — including shows unheard since 1946.

Jackson Beck stars as the detective played on film by William Powell.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bol... #OTR #OldtimeRadio

Defending the WAC: Our Rights, Their Wrongs: The WAC Campaign To Date by John Wyver Just about exactly a year ago, on 19 November 2024, I e-mailed a group of colleagues expressing concern about the Terms of Use researchers had to sign up to it secure access to the immeasurably rich…

The WAC campaign to date

More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.

cstonline.net/defending-th...

Bob Ross painted 'happy little trees.' His art sparked a bidding war at charity auction Three of Bob Ross' 'cheesy landscape' paintings brought in $600,000 at a charity auction to help support public broadcasting following government funding cuts.

3 Bob Ross paintings were auctioned to support PBS — and raised $662k.

27 more paintings will be sold, all to combat Trump's attempt to destroy public broadcasting.

"These funds will help local stations continue to serve their communities"

www.yahoo.com/news/article... #PBS #PublicBroadcasting

Now available online!

A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide!

Available in print in early 2026.

academic.oup.com/book/61621

Bobby Sherman ❤️

Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman announce 2026 Canadian tour as the Guess Who | CBC News The legendary Canadian rock band will be kicking off its first tour in 23 years in Moncton on May 26, 2026.

The biggest news in Canada.

www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Gorgeous! What a great idea!

Studs’ Place: The Lost Sitcom That Put Working-Class Life on TV. Our latest blog post by scholar and guest author Jason J. Nebergall offers an analysis of how Studs Terkel's radical, working-class ethos was translated into the emerging television medium. Read more at: https://loom.ly/JDD26kA

To help right this wrong, you can support the @brownmediaarchives.bsky.social restoration of the '80s alternative music doc "Athens, GA: Inside Out" that features an amazing live performance by the Flat Duo Jets: give.uga.edu/funders/insi.... Great band, great film, great archive.

No - Honestly; it's charming - Comedy Rewind - British Comedy Guide Written by one married couple based upon their own real lives and starring another, discover the mid-70s sitcom hit No - Honestly and its successor.

Some fun background info on it: www.comedy.co.uk/features/com...

Let's not forget them in WODEHOUSE PLAYHOUSE.

I'm so sad to learn of this. Just this week I have been re-watching NO, HONESTLY, one of my favorite of her tv series. She's just a delight in it. RIP, Pauline. 💔

UGA Libraries' Special Collections building in her autumn finery. Another beautiful day in Athens, GA.

Definitely OUT OF THE PAST.

New Documentary Studio Unfeatured Films Plans to Use AI to Bring Archival Photos to Life and Restore Old Footage (EXCLUSIVE) Filmmaker Daniel Clarke has launched Unfeatured Films, which will use AI animate archival photos and footage in documentaries.

Is AI-generated "archival" footage the future of documentary?

A new documentary studio says it is, calling their fake footage of historical figures generated from still photos "filming the past."

variety.com/2025/tv/news... #FilmSky #AI

The Moving Image: Special Issue This special issue will articulate the unique logistical, technological, and legal challenges of videotape preservation while introducing The Moving Image’s readership to the idiosyncratic character of videotape archives and the history of videotape as a medium.

The Moving Image Call for Submissions: Videotape in the Archive. https://loom.ly/CjFjs20

A beautiful autumn day on the UGA campus!