Melanie Surani's Blog, page 226
August 24, 2015
salesonfilm:
LOST FILMS
LOST FILMS is an initiative of...
LOST FILMS is an initiative of the Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Berlin, funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).
Its purpose is to make visible the invisible portion of film history by acting as a collaboration platform for internet users to bring together relevant information and surviving documents concerning Lost Films.
The archive of titles currently contains over 3500 films believed or declared to be lost.
thedissolve:
thedissolve:
âIn the analog world, most of the...
âIn the analog world, most of the cost of preservation is paid when the archival print is created. But for a digitally preserved film, the cost of migration shows up every five years. Postponing it is going to be tempting, especially during buyouts, changes in management, or any of the near-constant corporate turmoil that puts huge short-term pressure on cost-cutting. Films that continue to make money are probably safe, but for bombsâwhether they were genuinely terrible or interesting failuresâthe incentives are all wrong. Putting a significant part of our cultural heritage in a system where a five-year gap in funding means catastrophic, irrevocable loss seems to guarantee weâll lose some of it.â
Think film preservation is a simple matter in the digital age? Matthew Dessemâs fascinating look at the perilous state of digital archiving explains why that is not the case. [Read more…]
thedissolve:
“In the analog world, most of the cost of...
“In the analog world, most of the cost of preservation is paid when the archival print is created. But for a digitally preserved film, the cost of migration shows up every five years. Postponing it is going to be tempting, especially during buyouts, changes in management, or any of the near-constant corporate turmoil that puts huge short-term pressure on cost-cutting. Films that continue to make money are probably safe, but for bombs—whether they were genuinely terrible or interesting failures—the incentives are all wrong. Putting a significant part of our cultural heritage in a system where a five-year gap in funding means catastrophic, irrevocable loss seems to guarantee we’ll lose some of it.”
Think film preservation is a simple matter in the digital age? Matthew Dessem’s fascinating look at the perilous state of digital archiving explains why that is not the case. [Read more…]
August 23, 2015
Tonights’s installment of the Horror and Suspense Filmfest is...
Tonights’s installment of the Horror and Suspense Filmfest is Walled In (2009)
FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY
Walled In (2009)
Based on Serge Broselot’s bestselling French novel “Les Emmeures,” about a demolition company rep (Mischa Barton) who supervises the razing of a mysterious building and discovers horrifying secrets and past inhabitants entombed within its walls.
Movie | Aired: 03/17/2009 | R | 1 hr. 31 min.
Look to your left. The first thing you see is what you would hoard as a dragon.
Barber chairs. I don’t wanna be a dragon.
poprewind:
Light weekend reading… #jemandtheholograms #jem...
Light weekend reading… #jemandtheholograms #jem #books #80s #cartoons #tv #television #reading
I want to read the cat one!
weirdvintage:
The Hobble Skirt–“What’s that? It’s the...
The Hobble Skirt–“What’s that? It’s the speed-limit skirt”–postcard, early 1910s (via Find My Past)
Hobble skirts were a curious and scandalous fashion for women in the early 1910s. These skirts forced the wearer to take tiny, mincing steps. It became popular due to the designs of Paul Poiret, who is credited with liberating women from the corsets. He said, “I freed the bosom, shackled the legs, but gave liberty to the body.” At the height of this fashion, public transit was even altered to accommodate the limitations of the wearer, by lowering steps to streetcars and trains. (Source: Mentalfloss and Survey of Historic Costume by Phyllis G. Tortora and Keith Eubank)
So if someone wanted to chase them down, pretty much tough luck.
He Walks By Arguing Couple And Sees the Fear in Her Eyes. That’s When He Offers to Buy Them Tickets
Kid saves woman from being Kidnapped! :D Good going :)
