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Posts tagged television
There’s been lots of talk recently about Baltimore’s early involvement with the Civil Rights Movement and its lack of historical coverage. I need to revisit this film and see if there are any other copies out there in better condition. AND then find funding for photochemical preservation. :)
Desegregation - Baltimore Report, 1956
16mm Kinescope, 40 minutes
Photograph by Siobhan Hagan
Baltimore City Life Museum Moving Picture Collection
Maryland Historical Society
1986.77.1
Male Characters (2/10)
↳ Malcolm Reynolds
“We can’t die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so… very… pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.”
Can’t wait for our Thanksgiving marathon of FIREFLY!
(via slaughterhousefive)
There are many reasons to love this 1959 short Disney film, but I would like to point out the poetic “sensitive television eyes” at 2:40ish, and then “temporary pictures” being synonymous with “video” from 7:39 to 8:06.
September 26, 1960 — Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon stand before an audience of 70 million Americans—two-thirds of the nation’s adult population—in the first nationally televised Presidential debate. This first of four debates held before the end of October gave a vast national audience the opportunity to see and compare the two candidates, and ushered in a new age of Presidential politics.
(source: jfklibrary.org)
my previous who-style slideshow was well-received so i decided to give it a … companion (get it??)
(via tardisadventures)