Author Archives: Kate Pourshariati

Retro Mashup International

By Kate Pourshariati | Published: March 1, 2012
Live from the Archives! Film series is announced, with its inaugural screening on March 15th, 2012.
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A true translation: Updates on Matto Grosso (1931), and The Hoax (1932)

By Kate Pourshariati | Published: January 4, 2012
Regular readers of the Penn Museum blog may recall a post about an exciting film re-identification and discovery, in which we realized that the film that we thought was The Kid was really called The Hoax (1932) and that a copy was in the collections of the Smithsonian. By way of University of Pennsylvania’s Dr. [...]
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Native Life in the Philippines (1913), or, Another missing film found in the Archives.

By Kate Pourshariati | Published: May 3, 2011
Thanks to our digitized and streamed film collections on the Internet Archive, Dr. Mark Rice, a researcher who teaches at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, found a rare 1913 film of which the Museum likely has the last remaining elements (i.e. portions).  To quote Dr. Rice: “… Titled,  Native Life in the [...]
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Afghanistan in Peacetime: “Painted Trucks”(1972), presented by the filmmakers, Judith and Stanley Hallet

By Kate Pourshariati | Published: April 13, 2011
Looking through a collection of 16mm films housed in the Museum Library, our film archivist came across a 1972 film which gives a rare glimpse of peace in a country often torn apart by war. We got in touch with the filmmakers, Judith and Stanley Hallet, who let us know that this film is a [...]
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Archival travelogue films: China!

By Kate Pourshariati | Published: February 10, 2011
In preparation for the Chinese New Year celebrations we have pulled some archival travelogue footage from two collections; Kate and Arthur Tode, and Mrs. J. Shipley Dixon. As you will see, the films are remarkable for their view of pre-revolutionary period China, both 1930 “Canton” (Guangzhou) and 1945(?) “Peking” (Beijing). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-aCfKDO9PE The filmmakers in both [...]
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