Showing posts with label Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Film. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Saturday, July 22, 2017
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Saturday, June 18, 2016
Monday, May 30, 2016
Buzz Wagner - Dedication of P-40
For those of you who couldn't make it to the special dedication ceremony up the airport for Buzz Wagner - the First Ace of WWII - this is in honor of Buzz and all the men and women who fought and served our country abroad and in the home front during World War Two.
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Gigantic War Bonds Premieres - June 1945
Admission at both the Embassy and State by War Bond purchase only. Sponsored by the retail division - Johnstown Chamber of Commerce.
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Take Me to Dreamland...
VJ Repeat and one of my top ten favorites of all time - Dreamland Theatre in Cresson! That is because of my love of silent film. CLICK HERE to read more about the Eassanay - Bronco Billy film from 1913. Also, note Lubin on the posters - the Lubin Film Company was out of Philadelphia. The East Coast was at one time the film capitol - around Philly, New York and especially Fort Lee, New Jersey.
By the middle of 1914 - Lubin was out of business when all their film stock went up in flames including their newest releases. Up until basically the 1950's - most film stock was made out of nitrate - very flammable and still is to this day even as it decays into powder form with a strong odor of vinegar to boot. Nitrate caused many a deadly fire at theaters all across the U.S. and Europe.
Contrary to popular belief - Edison was not the inventor of the motion picture. The French and British were on the cutting edge and well ahead of the United States - nor was Edison the only U.S. inventor working on a process. The wonderful French director Alice Guy Blache (one of my favorites) out of Gaumont even made the first talkies in the 1890's. What Edison did was undermine and lock up all the copyrights - which was the main reason U.S. filmmakers set up shop in California. They figured it would be harder for the lawyers to track them down on the West Coast.
The closest I can come to having any connection to the early film industry is through E.K. Lincoln whose real name was Edward Klink and he was born in Johnstown. They had a general store and his father was Police Chief - CLICK HERE to learn a bit more and CLICK HERE for more from IMDB.com. My grandfather would have known him well because though not directly related - we were related to the same group of people and E.K. was very well-known all about town. He is one of those people if I had the time and money - I'd love to write a book about.
My dream job would be to be a film restorer - working back through the past - frame by frame...
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Crusade for Freedom
More on the Crusade for Freedom Tour that made a stop in Johnstown in the early 1950's. According to Wikipedia: the Crusade for Freedom was an American propaganda campaign operating from 1950 to 1960. It's public goal was to raise funds for Radio Free Europe; it also served to conceal the CIA's funding of Radio Free Europe and to generate domestic support for American Cold War policies.
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Friday, August 8, 2014
Future Homemakers
A class on how to make tasty biscuits at what I think is Joe Johns. I'm not 100% sure. If not Joe Johns - then it has to be Johnstown High. Either way a class on how to train the future homemakers of Johnstown.
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
JHS Football - 1950's
That is Miss Red Feather - Janet Borzuk helping out the guys from Johnstown High at the old Cochran Field. The Red Feather was a precursor to what is now the United Way.
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