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Last weekend, Turner Classic Movies staged their 3rd annual TCM Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles. As a part of the program, UCLA Film & Television Archive screened three Laurel & Hardy shorts, which were recently preserved by the Archive: Busy Bodies (1933), County Hospital (1932) and Helpmates (1932).
It never occurred to me that after our great adventure last fall with “L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema,” I would be writing this kind of blog so soon after.
The buzz at Cinefest in Syracuse last weekend was palpable. For days, I heard that Mamba was going to be the event of the four-day festival. Here was a film made in 1930 that probably had not been seen in this country for at least 75 years or more.
I first became aware of Saul Bass in the early 1990s. Through my work as curator at George Eastman House, I had met various film poster dealers at collector conventions, like the Syracuse Cinefest and (now L.A. based) Cinecon.
A recent New York Times article sounded the alarm bell for Canyon Cinema, one of the most important distributors of avan
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