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February 21, 2005
Movies Under the Stars
Also via Green Cine, this fascinating collection of newspapers advertisements for Wisconsin drive-in movie theaters, many of which date back to the 1940s. It's a great collection, not just for the films that are being advertised, but also (and possibly more importantly) for the "lost" culture of drive-in movie theaters found in these ads (originally via Rashomon).
Posted by chuck at February 21, 2005 6:30 PM
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That is a great collection, but don't you think it's weird how they fetishize the original newspaper (no microfilms used)? But then they digitize the ads and put them up on a website, as if these images are somehow more authentic for being digitizations than the images placed on microfilm.
I just find this particular claim to authenticty particularly bizarre, but whatever...
jwb
Posted by: Jimbo at February 23, 2005 6:06 PM
You know, I thought that desire to convey authenticity was a bit strange, but then I just liked looking at the pictures....
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at February 23, 2005 7:29 PM