Tag: history
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Complete Micheaux Blu-ray review
This 2025 Oscar Micheaux Blu-ray release by Kino Lorber is the most groundbreaking collection since Criterion’s Complete Varda set in 2020. Both have made the directors’ works much more accessible to the public. The review below is based on a five-star (*****) system, modeled from my review on Blu-ray.com. Review ***** To give it the…
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All films by Zora Neale Hurston
Hurston, a well-known author, also produced 15 reels (85 minutes, all silent) of probably the earliest autoethnographic documentation, from around 1928 to 1940 in the American South. Currently, it is a challenge to determine the details of each reel, so I’ll piece it together here the best I can. There are no simple IMDb entries…
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1914 Trans-Antarctic Expedition Map
It’s still baffling to me how Shackleton thought this was a good idea. Compare the size of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean around it to the Northern hemisphere. It’s over 2,100 miles on land alone; approximately the same distance as a dogsled trip from Seattle, WA, to northern Michigan.
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Major U.S. Studios Timeline
A timeline and “family tree” of the major American movie studios. Organized around the top 5 producers of feature films throughout the years. The “market share” percentages on the right edge of the graphic are sourced from The-Numbers.com 2020 Distributors Gross Earnings. The information is based on the “major film studios” chart on Wikipedia. Below…