The above article from the December 1918 issue of Popular Science is about how a training film produced by “the Training Division of the War College, Mr. Max Fleischer, a former member of the Popular Science Monthly staff, devised for the General Staff the system that we illustrate.” During World War I Max Fleischer was [...]
Entries from September 22nd, 2010
Max Fleischer Teaching Student Officers to Read Maps
September 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · American cinema, Animation history and criticism, Documentary films, Filmmakers
Tags: Bray Studios·Max Fleischer·Popular Science Monthly·U.S. Army War College·World War I
Sam Kula
September 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Film and television archives, Film history and criticism
Sam Kula, the Director of the National Archives of Canada’s Audiovisual Archives from 1973-1989, who died of cancer on September 8th, is someone I’m proud to have known and worked with him. I first met Sam when we were both graduate students at the University of Southern California’s Division of Cinema back in the 1960s, [...]
Tags: American Film Institute·National Archives of Canada·Sam Kula
Film Histories, Part 1
September 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Animation history and criticism, Film history and criticism, Television history and criticism
This is the first in a series of posts in which I will evaluate some of the one-volume histories of film in English. Nominally, it will be from my perspective of their suitability of their use in the classroom, particularly those I teach on the undergraduate and graduate level at the Savannah College of Art [...]
Tags: Film history textbooks