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Los Angeles is a fine town. I lived in its tepid embrace for over seven years, and I have to say it was probably seven of the best film years of my life. I think I saw as many movies in that time span as the occasional film viewer sees in a [...]
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Formative 10: Clash of the Titans & the Cinema of Attractions
Published by July 19th, 2008 in Formative 10, Uncategorized, film, films and movies. 7 CommentsWhen talking about films I saw as a pre-pubescent adolescent, I think one of the most important would have to be Ray Harryhausen’s Clash of the Titans (1981). Now technically, keeping inline with the logic of discussing film, I should have said Desmond Davis’s Clash of the Titans because he was the director, and ever [...]
…and be careful of those fireworks of mass destruction, kids. Yet another gem from the Internet Archive.
A reposting of the viral video “The Medieval Helpdesk” (a comical look at the new technology of the book during the middle ages) has a description that frames the point of the video as follows:
This video makes fun of modern newbie computer users by illustrating - in a way fully understandable to them - how [...]
Who knew Felix the cat was such a pinko? Here he is doling out money to the poor of the depression-era (a majority of whom would make up the the audience in a theatre for this short) with his gold brickin’ goose - this is yet another fascinating cartoon in this Vintage Tooncast [...]
It is truly amazing what gets unveiled when the copyright laws lapse, the public domain kicks in, and an unbelievable online digital resource like archive.org broadens its library and allows us to access the past in new and exciting ways, but also, at times, in challenging and problematic ways. I was on iTunes [...]
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