Dance is not really my thing, but it is of course an important art form so tonight's Film Club selection is this 1951 recording of Balanchine's ballet La Valse, which was brand new at the time of the filming at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in...
LGM film club
A colleague suggested the "Remember My Forgotten Man" song and dance sequence from Gold Diggers of 1933 as a LGM Film Club entry. It's so great and powerful, though for.
On this day where the Supreme Court puts what should be the nail in the coffin of one unlawful president, I thought watching Sam Ervin completely eviscerate John Ehrlichman was.
I actually enjoy watching this sort of thing, a corporate propaganda film from 1969 about a British tobacco firm that follows the whole process from the Virginia tobacco growing process to the factory. The history of tobacco is pretty sketchy--George Washington was all about reducing...
Since it is I.F. Stone day here on the blog, let's watch an interview with the great journalist! https://www.youtube.com/embed/qV3gO3zxQ1g
Happy Vaccination Day! This is actually a day to celebrate, the first time someone received a COVID vaccination from a carefully vetted and approved vaccine. It was in Britain and.
I may have linked to this before, back in the days before I created Film Club, but since we started the day with Samuel Slater, I figured we'd end it with the wages of textile production. 1912's The Crime of Carelessness is the loathsome, morally...
This footage of Bess Truman trying and failing to break a champagne bottle over an airplane to christen it is pretty entertaining. Always good to watch complete failure in action..
I loved Barcelona when I was there 10 years ago and of course Gaudi was a huge part of that. But I had never seen Hiroshi Teshigahara's film about Gaudi's.
Since I've been talking about child labor again thanks to the Supreme Court case and Neil Kaytal's immoral life choices, it's worth making tonight's film Children Who Labor, from 1912. This film, created by the National Child Labor Committee, is a melodrama showing the horrors...
Tonight's let look at this amazing footage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. https://www.youtube.com/embed/fqNkmZ3n_bc This was preserved by the National Film Preservation Foundation and they have an interesting description to.
We started our day with women's suffrage so let's end it there too, with this 1912 anti-suffrage film, A Lively Affair. The messaging on this is horrible, basically saying that.