July 2009 Archives

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on the marker placed outside the former 13th Street site of NFL Films...


and Howard B Haas, Chairman and President of Friends of the Boyd, comments that

Rather than "an old telephone company" the building was the Warner Bros. Film Exchange, opened 1947 in the Art Moderne style and designed by theater architect William H. Lee. WB had a film screening room for the industry & press, film vaults, and rooms from which to distribute movie posters throughout the Philadelphia region.

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

An exhaustive, three-year search for some tapes that contained the original footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk has concluded that they were probably destroyed during a period when NASA was erasing old magnetic tapes and reusing them to record satellite data.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106637066

Video Essays | The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide

An excellent video essay on Do the Right Thing on its twentieth anniversary...