It’s been a busy week for sandwich talk at LGM and across the internet. But have we acknowledged our foremothers and the sandwich-based media of the past? We have not! That changes now with the
A friend of mine put this on Facebook the other day and I could not help but sharing it with you. This is….amazing. The 1970s was a confusing decade made up of people making very questionable de
In the thread on cop media from a couple of days ago, a few people in comments mentioned how cops in early films were not portrayed as heroes, but rather were often bumbling idiots. This reminded me o
Tonight’s film is a treat. Oscar Micheaux’s 1919 film Within Our Gates is the earliest surviving film by an African-American director. This version does not have sound, but honestly, if yo
I don’t really know where this is from, but this is a 2 minute clip on yellow fever prevention in Colombia, sometime in the 70s. Spray those chemicals! It’s an interesting sort of document
So….tonight’s entry is perhaps a bit disturbing. Basically, in the 1940s, General Motors made a bunch of short films concerning animals doing funny things. I’m not real sure where th
On the Criterion Channel right now, you can watch a series of films by and about women. Called “Tell Me: Women Filmmakers, Women’s Stories,” it’s around 25 films, mostly but no
As a labor historian and scholar of the timber industry, I’m fascinated with the self-documentation of work and especially logging. This is an edited version of The Incredible Forest, a document