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UK Releases UFO Archives

2008-05-15 11:38:08 by scottsh in SF Signal
 
...Archives . Most records prior to 1962 were destroyed due to the cost of archiving the physical records, sadly. The information is being transferred from the Ministry of Defense to the National Archives over a four year period with this being the first dump - so there is more to come
 
Tags: physical records, records, national archives, records prior, research, ufo, threat, sadly, leaves
 
 
 
 
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"Back to the Future" Races Into National Film Archives at 88 MPH

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2008-01-01 14:26:13 by John Brownlee in SciFi Scanner
...archives of culturally significant films, bringing the number of movies recognized up to 475. Close Encounters of the Third Kind was also inducted, although I've never been a fan of the movie, which I consider boring and ponderous. Still, at least the National Film Registry isn't slighting sci-fi when it comes to picking the most culturally...
 
Tags: film, national film registry, future, significant films, robert zemeckis, archives, steam train, scott marty, daily stab
 
 
 
 
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Six New Exclusive Posters, Five From the Lucasfilm Archives

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2008-05-16 02:22:31 by Sam in Slice of SciFi
...Archives The original hard-to-find 1-sheet double sided poster created by artist David McMacken for the IMAX release, on display in IMAX theatres across the U.S. and Canada Even if you dont remember the magical 1986 movie Labyrinth it starred David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly, was directed by Muppetmaster Jim Henson and executive produced by...
 
Tags: posters, lucasfilm, lucasfilm archives, remember thx, starwarsshop, labyrinth posters, visit starwarsshop, remember, star wars products
 
 
 
 
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RETRO-ACTIVE: THE BEST FROM THE CINEMA RETRO ARCHIVES: DELETED SCENE FROM "THE GREAT ESCAPE"

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2008-08-29 17:54:00 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...archives to run articles that new readers may not have been aware. Here's a golden oldie from April 2007 In this rare deleted scene from director John Sturges' 1963 classic The Great Escape , Steve McQueen has just strung trip wire across a rural road, causing a German soldier's motorcycle to spin out of control into a drainage ditch. This...
 
Tags: cinema retro, cinema retro issue, escape, motorcycle, famed motorcycle chase, scene, german soldier, soldier, director john sturges
 
 
 
 
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Film Magazines

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2008-01-28 00:30:00 by girish in girish
...archives The new issue of Film International is devoted to Bazin. The articles look interesting but are available in the print edition only (e.g. William Rothman's "Bazin as Cavellian Realist"; Diane Stevenson's "Godard and Bazin"; TIFF report by Barry Keith Grant). I'm considering subscribing to it I like to visit the Film Reference...
 
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TIFF08Discovery Line-up

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2008-08-22 01:24:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...archives/006099.html http://www.emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=10510 The Stoning of Soraya M.Cyrus Nowrasteh, USA. In a remote Iranian village, a woman stands falsely accused of adulterya moral crime for which the punishment is death by stoning. Voiceless women, armed with only their innocence and dignity, are no match for the...
 
Tags: film, short film jesus, zealand film festival, zealand, north american premiere, dave hudson gathers, dave hudson, sydney film festival, daily
 
 
 
 
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Resolutions For 2008

2007-12-31 15:04:55 by Editor in The Watchtower of Destruction: The Ferrett's Journal
 
...archives in preparation for a large-scale project, and that sort of thing does not give you hope for future resolutions. Every January first I see the entry, and I'm lucky if I've kept half of them. The "submit a short story a week" plan? Gone. (Though admittedly, that mutated into a novel when I decided I wasn't good at short stories.) The...
 
Tags: awe-inspiringly impressive resolution, resolution, entries, current entries, cool idea, livejournal archives, archives, noble goal, large-scale project
 
 
 
 
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Fans help re-create lost Doctor Who stories

2008-04-08 21:30:16 by mhickerson in Slice of SciFi
 
...archives purge in the early 70s. At the time, the BBC felt the value of repeating episodes from Doctor Who and other classic series was past and destroyed the episodes to free up storage space A few complete stories were retained an examples of an era and in some cases an individual episode of a story was kept. But for many years, the only...
 
Tags: stories, archives, bbc archives purge, lost stories, fans, bbc, bbc continues, experience stories, complete stories
 
 
 
 
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JOAN BLONDELL: THE FIZZ ON THE SODAThe Evening Class Interview With Matthew Kennedy, Part One

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2008-06-07 11:15:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...archives and finding this one-of-a-kind stuff that exists in a special collection in Philadelphia or in Cleveland or in New Yorkwhich was literally the route I took with the Dressler bookwas, for me, as fun and exciting and revealing as the writing itself. As soon as this archival material presented itself, the writer in me said, "I cannot...
 
Tags: mom loved film, mom, loved film, film, film historians, film historian, embody film history, film history, matthew kennedy