I may have linked to this film way in the distant past, but I never have since I started the film club, so let's discuss the 1907 film The Teddy Bears. I had reason to show this to my class this morning and I am...
LGM film club
Tonight's film is this 1948 documentary made by the National Farm Labor Union about the terrible labor practices of DiGiorgio Farms in the San Joaquin Valley, one of the worst.
Like many people, I love Sam Fuller. His movies were so before their time with their focus on violence and the filth of society in a way that was usually.
Tonight let's watch the excellent 1952 film The Bad and The Beautiful. Directed by Vincente Minnelli, it stars Kirk Douglas as an utterly unscrupulous movie mogul and three of the people he screws over to get what he wants--an actress (Lana Turner), a director (Walter...
1972 was a great year for films, in no small part because of the revival of the mafia movie. But let's be clear--this had nothing to do with The Valachi.
5 Card Stud, from 1968, stars Dean Martin as a professional gambler in the 1880s West. He's part of a card game. A guy cheats. The other gamblers, outside of.
I haven't done a logging film in a long time, which considering my long-term interest in the profession and its history seems unlikely. So let's watch this 1926 film Logging in Idaho, which does a great job at getting why this was unbelievably dangerous job....
It's hard to put the Progressive Era more succinctly than the 1912 film The Land Beyond the Sunset, about a boy who has a terrible home life and who gets.
No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by United Artists/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5873241a) Robert Mitchum Thunder Road - 1958 Director: Arthur Ripley United Artists USA Scene Still.
This is one of the truly most reprehensible pieces of government propaganda I have ever seen produced by the United States. This is Milton Eisenhower narrating a 1942 film (I know the link says 1943, but it's wrong) about the wonderful program that is Japanese...
An unfortunately canceled flight got in the way of me putting this up yesterday. But why not do it today? Here's a 1932 video of kids in Buffalo on Halloween..
I showed the 1903 Edison film Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island for my students the other day and realized I had never put it up here. Just watching the 2.