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Steve Jarrett

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I teach film history courses at Wake Forest University.

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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The latest installment of my "Cinema Century" blog, in which a celebrated German director is brought to the U.S. amid much fanfare and creates a masterpiece, only to learn that in Hollywood profit always trumps genius. steve-jarrett.sites.wfu.edu/uncategorize...
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The Cinema Century – July 31, 1926 – Steve Jarrett
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The most recent installment of my "Cinema Century" blog, in which a small Oregon town welcomes a Hollywood film crew, and its citizens are privileged to witness the filming of a tremendous spectacle, the single most expensive shot of the silent film era. steve-jarrett.sites.wfu.edu/uncategorize...
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The Cinema Century – April 24, 1926 – Steve Jarrett
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The most recent installment of my "Cinema Century" blog, in which a pioneering animator encounters a vexing roadblock in his career path; a path that will ultimately lead to his being acknowledged as one of the most important innovators in the field. steve-jarrett.sites.wfu.edu/uncategorize...
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The Cinema Century – January 23, 1926 – Steve Jarrett
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
It has been reported that the Mos Eisley spaceport cantina band has canceled a previously scheduled performance at the Kennedy Center. A spokesperson for the group commented, “Just because we’re the house band at a wretched hive of scum and villainy, that doesn’t mean we don’t have standards.”
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Today is the first Silent Movie Day since the entire silent film period entered the public domain (except for a couple of Chaplin outliers). Watch a silent movie today! silentmovieday.org
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Silent Movie Day
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The most recent installment of my "Cinema Century" blog, in which a prominent writer is hired by a Hollywood studio, then is let go, then returns as an actor, and ends up as a screenwriter again, this time with great success. steve-jarrett.sites.wfu.edu/the-cinema-c...
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The Cinema Century – July 26, 1925 – Steve Jarrett
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The most recent installment of my "Cinema Century" blog, in which a company that helped lay the foundation for the movie industry in this country folds its tent, marking the end of an era. steve-jarrett.sites.wfu.edu/uncategorize...
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The Cinema Century – May 2, 1925 – Steve Jarrett
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The most recent installment of my "Cinema Century" blog, in which a major star of the silent cinema makes the decision to go independent, and learns that being one's own boss in Hollywood has its downsides as well as its benefits. steve-jarrett.sites.wfu.edu/uncategorize...
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The Cinema Century – February 27, 1925 – Steve Jarrett
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Another silent film discovery. The existence of 16mm reduction prints on safety film stock continues to be our best bet for the continued discovery of silent pictures that were thought to be lost. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUin...
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Long-lost silent film uncovered on Long Island
YouTube video by NBC New York
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
CASABLANCA updated: RICK: Sam, I told you never to play that tune! SAM: Why not, boss? RICK: Because we can't clear the rights! www.npr.org/2012/01/03/1...
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The Big Bad Swap: The Problem With Replaced Music
When is a movie not a movie? When it's a movie with an entirely different soundtrack.
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
This excellent site deserves the support of every cinephile.
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
One of my favorite David Lynch projects was not a film. It was a comic strip -- "The Angriest Dog in the World." www.lynchnet.com/angrydog/
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David Lynch - Angriest Dog in the World
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Every semester, on the first day of class, I show this clip to my film history students. I know they won't listen when I beg them not to watch the assigned films on their phones, so I have to hope that they will pay heed to a higher authority. RIP David Lynch www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiI...
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David Lynch on iPhone
YouTube video by Brittney Gilbert
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
"Orlock can’t die from a stake or holy water and can only be burned to a crispy death by exposure to sunlight. His reach and his accessibility are the results of his ability to project shadows of himself across space. Orlok is cinema. Nosferatu is cinema." lithub.com/what-does-it...
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What Does It Mean to Remake Nosferatu Instead of Simply Dracula?
Dracula is back. Dracula hasn’t been away for very long (last year saw two reinterpretations: the corny comic misfire Renfield and genuinely innovative horror film The Last Voyage of the Demeter), …
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
The only remaining artifact from Gertrude Stein's extremely brief career as an office manager.
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I love this story of Mark Evanier's yuletide encounter with Mel Torme. Revisiting it has become as much a part of my Christmas traditions as Dickens and Jean Shepherd. www.newsfromme.com/2024/12/19/m...
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My Xmas Story – News From ME
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“The film is 106 years old. It was stored in conditions we don’t know about. I think there are films that decide to live,” said Cordova. www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture...
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Lost John Ford film found in Chile after 100 years | The National
The Scarlet Drop, a western starring actor Harry Carey, was found in a Santiago warehouse a day before it was set to be demolished
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Schroedinger's weather forecast.
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Guilty. Sue me.
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
The most recent installment of my “Cinema Century” blog, in which Warner Brothers makes an aggressive move in the theater-buying “arms race” that is transforming the structure of the movie industry. steve-jarrett.sites.wfu.edu/uncategorize...
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The Cinema Century – September 20, 1924 – Steve Jarrett
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
"All-vampire production of DRACULA flops after entire cast fails to show up on film."
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 15/07/2024
The most recent installment of my "Cinema Century" blog, in which one of the most successful and celebrated directors in Hollywood abruptly announces that he is packing it in and will abandon filmmaking for good. steve-jarrett.sites.wfu.edu/uncategorize...
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The Cinema Century – July 12, 1924 – Steve Jarrett
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 07/07/2024
Not my image -- original source unknown.
JAWS shirt on a mannequin that is missing one arm
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 16/06/2024
Happy Bloomsday to one and all -- yes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sEO...
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James Joyce - Ulysses: Molly Bloom's Soliloquy, The Last 50 Lines
The ending of James Joyce's "Ulysses," as read by Marcella Riordan.***God of heaven theres nothing like nature the wild mountains then the sea and the waves ...
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
The most recent installment of my "Cinema Century" blog, in which movie directors band together to preserve their mutual creative autonomy but then learn the hard way that there is a price to be paid for independence. steve-jarrett.sites.wfu.edu/uncategorize...
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The Cinema Century – June 7, 1924 – Steve Jarrett
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 12/05/2024
RIP Roger Corman, who hired Scorsese, Bogdanovich, Coppola, and many others when nobody else would, and trained them in the logistics of filmmaking so that when major studio opportunities happened for them, they were ready. His cinema legacy is incalculable. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Roger Corman, Giant of Independent Filmmaking, Dies at 98
The fabled "King of the B’s" producer and director influenced the careers of Jack Nicholson, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme and many others.
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
If you haven't seen HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, what are you waiting for? If Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali had continued to work together, and if they had recruited Chuck Jones as a third collaborator, this might have been the result. Inspired silliness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h4P...
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Hundreds of Beavers | Official Trailer | Coming to Fandor April 19
In this 19th century, supernatural comedy, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper when he los...
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
The most recent installment of my "Cinema Century" blog, in which movie industry entrepreneurs experiment with adding a third dimension to the screen. steve-jarrett.sites.wfu.edu/uncategorize...
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The Cinema Century — March 22, 1924 – Steve Jarrett
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
As the hope of finding intact 35mm nitrate prints of silent films fades, the hope of future discoveries increasingly lies with 16mm reduction prints on acetate safety stock. It is those prints, made for home rental, that make possible discoveries like this Clara Bow film. www.msn.com/en-us/movies...
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MSN
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
Yeah, it's an old problem. www.bizarro.com/blog/2020/2/...
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Spoiler Alert — Bizarro | Naked Cartoonist
While it’s fun to imagine dimwitted chumps of yesteryear being frightened by technology, it has been pointed out that even though films of this sort were new, people had stood on platforms and watch...
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Looking forward to listening to these conversations. deadline.com/2024/02/pete...
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
The most recent installment of my "Cinema Century" blog, in which the technology of a rival entertainment medium successfully infiltrates the movie industry to transform it from within. steve-jarrett.sites.wfu.edu/uncategorize...
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The Cinema Century – January 27, 1924 – Steve Jarrett
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
The film history community has suffered a dreadful loss with the untimely passing of David J. Skal. He was involved in a car crash on New Year's Eve, allegedly hit by a drunk driver, and died the following day from his injuries. R.I.P. medicotopics.com/david-j-skal...
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David J. Skal car accident, American historian passed away after crash on New year's eve
David J. Skal passed away: The world mourns the loss of film historian David J. Skal, renowned for his insights on "Dracula."
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
“Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." —Mark Twain, letter to Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, January 1863
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
The most recent installment of my "Cinema Century" blog, in which a cinema classic for the ages almost doesn't get made, then gets mutilated almost beyond recognition, then eventually is reborn due to the persistent efforts of its biggest fan. steve-jarrett.sites.wfu.edu/uncategorize...
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The Cinema Century – December 11, 1923 – Steve Jarrett
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
Credit for this goes to Andrew L. Kern of Kern Creative Design:
Parody poster - THE SHINING as a Hallmark holiday movie.
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
A fascinating bit of cinema archaeology: www.wellesnet.com/lady-shangha...
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'Lady from Shanghai' stock footage surfaces online
More than 90 minutes of stock footage and rushes from "The Lady from Shanghai" starring Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth can be found on YouTube and the Internet Archive.
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Never forget.
WKRP Turkey Drop
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Henry Winkler was in town tonight promoting his new book. He very kindly hung around to do pictures with everyone. A true gentleman.
Henry Winkler
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
There is a quixotic hunt underway for a complete AMBERSONS print somewhere in Brazil, but that is, at best, a long shot. This, on the other hand, is a reality, and is likely remain the nearest we can come to experiencing the film as Orson Welles intended it. www.theguardian.com/film/2023/ju...
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The Magnificent Ambersons: rebirth for ruined Orson Welles masterpiece that rivalled Citizen Kane
The studio ‘butchered’ the legendary director’s 1942 film. Now an ambitious project is under way to restore it
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
I regret to inform you that you are talking about long movies the wrong way.
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The Real Reason Movies Are “Getting Longer“
For one thing, they’re not.
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
Every film history teacher has shown their class "L'Arroseur arrosé," the 1895 Lumiere joke film where a gardener gets a faceful of water courtesy of a smartass kid's prank. I love that there is a statue in Besançon (the Lumieres' hometown) commemorating the film. guide.moovtoo.com/LB/en/cultur...
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L'Arroseur arrosé
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
Are we really still doing finger-wagging rules? No movie should be longer than 97 minutes. No song should be longer than 3:30. No book should be longer than 180 pages. No play should be two acts. Nobody should be taller than 5'8". Everyone should be in bed by 11.
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
The most recent installment of my "Cinema Century" blog, in which an actor who is destined to star in a film that will fundamentally change the Hollywood industry gets into legal trouble by protesting that he has no future in the movie business. steve-jarrett.sites.wfu.edu/uncategorize...
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The Cinema Century — July 28, 1923 – Steve Jarrett
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Importing my Halloween tweets from the other site. 10/28/15: When I was a kid, you didn't dress as a character; you wore a mask OF the character + a smock ABOUT the character
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
If you're old enough to remember View-Master 3-D pictures, there is a remarkably comprehensive history of the company and its products now available as a free pdf file. You can download a copy at this link: stereoworld.org/special-down...
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A Special Downable Book from Mary Ann and Wolfgang Sell - National Stereoscopic Association
October 24, 2023 By the generous permission of the authors, NSA presents a free downloadable PDF copy of “View-Master Memories” (c) Mary Ann and Wolfgang Sell. This file and the information presen...
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Steve Jarrett @steve-jarrett.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
At this late date, the discovery of ANY film from the silent era on 35mm nitrate stock is nothing short of miraculous, and a cause for celebration. filmisfabulous.org.uk/lost-silent-...
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Lost Silent Movie Found! | Film is Fabulous
https://vimeo.com/870767140
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PoetNotaRockStar @poetnotarockstar.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/10/2023
Reminder that Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, and Variety are all owned by a member of the AMPTP, so any story from any of them which asserts divisions within SAG-AFTRA and which is only backed up by anonymous sources should be taken with a grain of salt, to say the very least.
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