August 2021 comes to a close with several classic movie related events. While our minds are on the recent passings of Charlie Watts and Don Everly, the Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog reprobates will turn our short attention spans to film preservationists and giant radiated reptiles. Like dark chocolate and coffee, they go together!
On Sunday, August 29 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 12:00 noon Pacific Time, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival presents Reanimating History: Preserving the LoC’s Paper Print Collection. Library of Congress archivists Meghan Holly and Erin Palombi tell the story of how silent movies, preserved over 110 years ago on paper rolls, are getting restored to film and how this process has evolved over the decades.
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival press release elaborates:
During the earliest days of cinema, the Library of Congress received moving image copyright deposits on paper instead of celluloid. Filmmakers submitted a series of still images printed on paper rolls resembling film reels.
These unique artifacts form the basis of the Library’s Moving Image Collection and in many cases are the only surviving evidence of a film’s existence. Since the 1940s, many efforts have been made to reanimate these prints as projectable moving images. Advancements in preservation technology have brought us ever closer to being able to view these images as they were originally intended. Join Library of Congress archivists Meghan Holly and Erin Palombi to learn more about what is surely one of archival history’s most often-revisited preservation projects!
Following last weekend's "King Kong Crashes Godzillafest" screenings of the 1962 King Kong Vs. Godzilla and the new Godzilla Vs. Kong epic at the Balboa Theatre, the official Godzilla Fest rampages through the San Francisco venue yet again. Godzilla remains a most marketable franchise and new thunder lizard epics keep coming out every year, so this year's lineup combines 1960's and 1970's classics such as Invasion Of Astro Monster (a.k.a Monster Zero), Godzilla Vs. Megalon and Terror Of Mechagodzilla with more recent versions of the King Of The Monsters such as Godzilla 2000, Giant Monsters All Out Attack, Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. and Shin Godzilla.
We at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog love Godzilla, Ultraman, Johnny Sokko & His Flying Robot, Inframan, even cheaper thunder lizard variants and the SCTV sketch starring John Candy as Gigan. Now these movies demand a rowdy SRI crowd hooping and hollering, so I hope they get a good turnout. If you plan to attend, remember to bring a mask and a proof of vaccination card, thanks to That Darn Coronavirus.
Godzilla Fest 2021 lineup is as follows:
FRIDAY AUGUST 27
4PM Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)
5PM Godzilla 2000 (1999)
7PM Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)
8PM Godzilla (2014)
SATURDAY AUGUST 28
11AM Godzilla Vs. Megalon (1973)
12PM Terror Of Mechagodzilla (1975)
2PM Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
3PM Giant Monsters All Out Attack (2001)
5PM Godzilla: King Of The Monsters (2019)
6PM Shin Godzilla (2016)
8PM Godzilla Vs. Kong (2021)
SUNDAY AUGUST 29
11AM Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
12PM Godzilla (2014)
230 PM Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)
3 PM Invasion Of Astro Monster (1965)
5PM Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
6PM Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)
The Historic Balboa Theatre is in the San Francisco's outer Richmond District at 3630 Balboa Street, between 37th and 38th Avenues.
For more info, see the Cinema SF and Bay Area Film Events websites.
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