Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for money prizes. Baby prepares for WW2. [Originally a 70mm projection-performance, 1982, by Ken and Flo Jacobs. From THRILLS AND CHILLS (Castle Films, c. 1930)].
In the grip of the Great Depression, unemployed men and women joined an unlikely WPA program to docu...
"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs
Jacobs’s hypnotic “3-D” adaptation of New York 1911, a long-forgotten Swedish documentary restored b...
For twelve years he stood as America's 32nd President, a man who overcame the ravages of polio to pu...
Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." The music of ...
An Eternalism film.