Community Structures
Classic Movie Theaters: The Colonial, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
A recurring series about movie theaters of the past
October 07, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
The World Monuments Fund 2012 Watch List
The latest Watch List from the World Monuments Fund cites 67 invaluable places in need of attention, in some cases protection from tourists
October 06, 2011 |
By Susan Spano
America’s Real Jurassic Park Re-Opens
The quarry wall strewn with hundreds of bones representing some of the most famous dinosaurs is now open to the public again
October 06, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Science on Screen: Explaining Why Zombies Want to Eat You and Other Mysteries of Life
A film series examines how movies make use of science
October 05, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
What It’s Like Inside a Dinosaur
I was probably the oldest dinosaur fan in attendance for the show; kids stared in wide-eyed amazement at what, to all appearances, was a real dinosaur right in front of them
October 03, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Scaling the Washington Monument
Mountaineering park ranger Brandon Latham talks about how engineers investigated the monument from hundreds of feet above the ground
October 03, 2011 |
By Megan Gambino
Dinosaur Sighting: A Special Archaeopteryx 150th Anniversary Edition
A visit to Munich meant a pilgrimage to the paleontology museum
September 30, 2011 |
By Brian Wolly
Mount Lebanon Shaker Village Redux
An outstanding collection of Shaker arts and crafts moves to the old Shaker Village in New York
September 28, 2011 |
By Susan Spano
The Terrible Dinosaurs of the 1970s
How many students are still meeting outdated dinosaurs, rather than the dinosaurs we now know?
September 28, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Playing It Again: The Big Business of Re-Releases
How rereleases drove—and still drive—the film industry
September 28, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
From Toronto to New York: The Fall Film Festivals
The fall film festival lineup is filled with avant garde movies and Oscar contenders
September 23, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
Out Where the West Begins
A new boxed DVD set examines the history of the West in films.
September 21, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
On the Elwha, a New Life When the Dam Breaks
A huge dam-removal project will reveal sacred Native American lands that have been flooded for a century
September 15, 2011 |
By Abigail Tucker
Remembering Robert Breer and Donald Krim
Looking at the careers of an avant-garde animator and a crucial film distributor
September 14, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
Park(ing) Day’s Roadside Attraction
The founders of Park(ing) Day discuss the birth of their idea and how it became a global phenomenom
September 14, 2011 |
By Jeff Greenwald
Lost and Found: HBO and Ernst Lubitsch
A periodic update of film preservation projects.
September 09, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
Why Go To Bulgaria?
Packing for an adventure to a place layered with relics from the Thracians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Bulgars, Ottoman Turks and Soviets
September 08, 2011 |
By Alastair Bland
Using Movies to Debate Sign Language
A 1913 film mirrors contemporary conflicts over how best to teach the deaf
September 07, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
A Trip to the Moon as You’ve Never Seen it Before
One of the landmark films in cinema can now be seen in color
September 02, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
How to Save the Taj Mahal?
A debate rages over preserving the awe-inspiring, 350-year-old monument that now shows signs of distress from pollution and shoddy repairs
September 2011 |
By Jeffrey Bartholet
