#kinescopes

The residents of the great house of Collinwood stand around recapping the series so far. The only unanswered question that comes up is matriarch Liz’ extreme reluctance to leave the house. Regular viewers could probably explain that to the characters. She has nowhere to go. She conducts the family’s enterprises from the drawing room, doing paperwork on a coffee table and holding meetings on the…

Drunken artist Sam Evans receives an unexpected visitor to his cottage. She is famed art dealer Portia Fitzsimmons, and she is magnificent. Mrs Fitzsimmons, as she insists on being addressed, was in a junk shop earlier this week, where she found two of Sam’s paintings available to buyers of the frames they were in. The paintings were done ten or twelve years ago, and she declares that they are…

Hestia gave a quiet, resigned sigh as she hears the tell-tale jingling of the bell resting above her shop’s front door. Figures she’d get another customer five minutes before she officially closed up for the day. Nevertheless, she turns to greet the prospective client.

Like a predator stalking it’s prey, Velvet was watching Vox silently from a distance. Her grin wide, waiting as she bid her time. Waiting for that perfect time to strike.

Waiting for him to finally pick up his phone so she can go crashing whatever business call he was planning to have.

And then ... Bam.

Immediately does Velvet slinky herself up right against Vox seemingly from no where -- her own disappear and reappearing act. Arm is slung around his shoulders as she curls up against him, shark teeth gleaming and nearly rivaling the burning brights of her eyes under the low light.

Today we’re inspecting a group of rare kinescopes of the 1950s tv show, PAUL WHITEMAN’S TV TEEN CLUB starring long-time band leader Paul “Pops” Whiteman and Nancy Lewis.  We have ten episodes of the show which, somehow, ended up in Athens, Georgia, at a local bookstore where they were bought by a UGA Library cataloger and donated to the library before there really was a Media Archives here. We also have two episodes in the Peabody Awards Archives. We have been getting some requests for them lately, folks coming to us, looking for their own performances on kids’ tv shows from the 1950s and 1960s. Unfortunately, we don’t have a great number of those kinds of local shows (not as many as we’d like to have). In this case, a genealogist is searching for a performance by a client.  As we scan these, we’re making a note of the young performers’ names and home towns so they may turn up online in future searches.

Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: UCLA Festival of Preservation Features Newly Restored Films

Continuing its long tradition, UCLA presented its popular Festival of Preservation condensed into a mini film festival over one weekend, unlike those in the past spread out over a month. The selection covered the gamut of entertainment, from film noir to silents to animation to television kinescopes. While I was only able to attend one day, the films I watched looked great and offered moving and…