Archive for the 'Preservation' Category
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “The C-U Film Leader,” we talk about celebrity sightings to come, single-screen venues to preserve, and miscellany du C-U for all to behold!
Posted in Alums Done Good, Area Festivals, Champaign Movie Makers, Competition du C-U, For the Children, Gone Hollywood, Media Coverage, News Ticker du C-U, Podcast du C-U, Preservation, Public Events, Roger Ebert, Student Film, Theatres & Venues | 
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Thursday, January 28th, 2016
If you did not purchase or subscribe to MICRO-FILM back in the day, 2016 will be the year for you to atone for your sins by supporting the Magazine of Personal Cinema in Action. Read and repent!
Posted in Deadline du C-U, JP Confidential, MICRO-FILM du C-U, Preservation, Print Matter du C-U, Sale Items du Opteryx, The Old School | Comments Off on Snag these sexy MFs ASAP, BFFs!
Saturday, July 4th, 2015
From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: It’s more a “Concept of the Week,” Holly Rushakoff’s forthcoming Web archive Champaign-Urbana Music is, but it also has a picture. Fun!
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Friday, June 5th, 2015
The largest rock music gathering ever in central Illinois is chronicled in INCIDENT AT KICKAPOO CREEK, the long-in-the-works film by R.C. Raycraft of Raycraft Productions International.
Posted in Alums Done Good, Area Festivals, Article du C-U, Preservation, Production Updates, Public Events, The Old School, Videos du C-U | Comments Off on Knocking on KICKAPOO’s door
Saturday, October 18th, 2014
Read this, heed this, and then stop paying attention to any electronic screen within your vicinity so you can make it safely to That’s Rentertainment in Campustown. Today is Video Store Day!
Posted in Business Matters, Home Videos du C-U, Preservation, Public Events, The Old School | Comments Off on Will VSD save the video star?
Tuesday, October 14th, 2014
The occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Champaign, Illinois, inspires Perry C. Morris and friends to celebrate local movie history!
Posted in Education/Classes, Happy Places, Images du C-U, Preservation, Public Events, The Old School, Theatres & Venues, Videos du C-U | Comments Off on Orpheum 100th, lore in spotlight
Saturday, February 1st, 2014
From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: The Elvis Brothers never *really* left the building, as C-U Blogfidential has discovered! Dig on these vintage Elvis Bros. videos, one of which features the former Cinema Theater of Urbana as a backdrop.
Posted in Alums Done Good, Images du C-U, Music Video, Preservation, The Old School, Theatres & Venues, Videos du C-U | Comments Off on IOW: Cinema struts to Elvis Bros.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2013
EXTRA! Interview with the general manager of the Art Theater Co-op in Champaign, IL!
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Monday, July 1st, 2013
Fresh links lead us to consider once again the sound-on-film technology developed by Joseph Tykocinski-Tykociner nearly a century ago, especially since the fruits of his labor are finally available for study.
Posted in Images du C-U, Media Coverage, Preservation, The Old School, Videos du C-U | Comments Off on Talks about our first talking film
Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
How interesting a twist of fate will this be? It seems our work has value to the team behind Explore C-U, a new UI-based project intended to curate local history and art in an easily accessible and interactive manner through Web browser and cell phone. “Yes,” we say!
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Champaign Movie Makers will meet during a special screenwriters’ session at Quality Beer in downtown Champaign, IL, later tonight, Thursday, May 2, 2013. We also discuss the Pens to Lens screenwriting competition for children and an unique screenplay collection at UIUC!
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Thursday, April 18th, 2013
From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: WILL-TV 12 will air a compilation of clips featuring the late Roger Ebert, EBERT REMEMBERED, later tonight, Thursday, April 18, 2013, at 8 p.m. Also, take a look at Shatterglass Studios videos about Ebertfest and the Virginia Theatre!
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
In the second helping of our brain-food-for-thought regarding the survival of local movie theaters, we conjure the ghosts of brick-and-mortar cinemas past complete with a visual ode to downtown Champaign’s former Rialto Theater.
Posted in Media Coverage, Preservation, Sad Places, The Old School, Theatres & Venues, Videos du C-U | Comments Off on O! Wherefore art thou, Rialto?
Monday, November 12th, 2012
Seemingly, we’re unable to escape the topic of local movie theaters potentially biting the dust if they can’t afford the highly expensive projection equipment necessary to show movies offered only as digital files. Here is the first of two fresh ruminations about it.
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: After seeing the Martin Scorsese film HUGO and its loving depiction of the first visionary filmmaker, Georges Melies, your humble editor recalls a quiet moment spent with Papa George on January 13, 1992.
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