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Varieté at the NZIFF: An interview with composer Johannes Contag

Posted on 24 August 2016 by silentsplease

Varieté (also known as Variety, Vaudeville and Jealousy) is one of the most prominent works of the Weimar cinema. Directed by E. A. Dupont for UFA in 1925, it is as famous for Karl Freund’s freewheeling cinematography as for the … Continue reading →

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Researching and restoring Universal’s King of Jazz (1930): an interview with James Layton and Crystal Kui

Posted on 10 May 2016 by silentsplease

1930 saw the release of a film that Universal Pictures expected to be a smash hit: King of Jazz, a musical revue starring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. Shot in two-strip Technicolor, King of Jazz featured a grand set-piece in … Continue reading →

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Silent cinema from the vaults to the world: an interview with film archival scholar Grazia Ingravalle

Posted on 22 April 2016 by silentsplease

Silent cinema is gaining more prominence and availability than ever before—but how does the work of archives and cinémathèques drive the way we perceive it? Grazia Ingravalle is a doctoral student at the University of St Andrews in Scotland whose … Continue reading →

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An interview with Bin Li, nitrate film specialist

Posted on 31 March 2015 by silentsplease

Since July 2014, Bin Li has been working for Haghefilm Digitaal in Amsterdam, one of the most esteemed film preservation/restoration laboratories in the world. A graduate of the MA Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image course at the Universiteit … Continue reading →

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