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 one of the very first images of the...
LGM film club
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.
Since we are talking about police violence these days, here's a film produced by the Illinois Labor History Society, I assume in the 60s, about the Memorial Day Massacre of.
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, especially right now with our own once a century public health...
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 they.
Tonight's film is the 1935 Duke Ellington vehicle Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life. Directed by Fred Waller, who was a director of short films, it highlights Ellington's.
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 not all documentaries from the 70s and 80s that explore different aspects of gender and...
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.
One of our richer film collections is of rock stars being jerks. And therefore, I think it is well worth our time to watch this Lou Reed interview from 1975.
I rewatched Anatomy of a Murder the other night. It's such a great film. Otto Preminger directed it and managed to get into difficult topics so directly that it feels like a film from twenty years later. For those of you who haven't seen it,...
The first presidential speech with synchronous sound was this address by Calvin Coolidge in 1924. It is astounding how boring this is. Now, if you had told me that a.
There are so many amazing clips of the last century plus of filmed material online and the news sucks so bad these days that I thought it would be a.