Attending to details so that the bigger picture can emerge.
In the beginning, the movies were of two minds —D.W. Griffith’s and Mack Sennett’s. Griffith and Sennett were both young men when they came stumbling into the Biograph Co. in 1908. Each had tasted professional failure and was more than … Continued
The rise of nickelodeons and a motion picture industry marked the approach of the transformative glacier known as pop culture. The cultural landscape was rearranged in ways no one could have foreseen. Motion pictures were there at the vanguard, literally … Continued
January 16 marks the 100th anniversary of the law establishing Prohibition. Few people today can understand the grassroots fervor that made the 18th Amendment the law of the land on January 16, 1920. But it did not happen overnight, and … Continued
“Art belongs to the young — born in the passions of loins and hearts, not in the abstractions of mature minds.” – Terry Ramsaye in “A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture Through … Continued