December 1999

The Road Les Traveled December 1999

In this issue, we take a look at Les Blank's career, the documentarian of folk cultures who transforms anthropology into art.

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December 1999

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Features
A book cover from 'Burden of Dreams.'
The Road Les Traveled: A Les Blank Filmography
Les Blank is a prize-winning independent filmmaker...
ByIDAEditorial Staff
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An older man with a beard gestures at the camera from Dusan Hanák's 'Pictures of The Old World'.
Czech Documentaries: The Forgotten Film Scene
Czech documentaries seem to be responding to...
ByRadovanHolub
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A white man with a beard and mustache wears a white hat and holds his camera on his shoulder.
Master Class with Les Blank
Les Blank appears and then fades into the hazy...
ByKathleenFairweather
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Frame enlargement from 'The Orphans' (1911, Selig Plyscope), one of three film versions of the French stage drama produced before D.W. Griffith's epic reinvention of the story for his French Revolution melodrama <em>Orphans of the Storm</em> (1921).
Saving Orphan Films: A South Carolina Symposium
“The [National Film Preservation] Foundation's...
ByDanStreible
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Les Bank, an older white man, holds a camera on a boat.
On the Making of the Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins
How Les Blank’s passion for the rich depth of...
ByLesBlank
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A white man with a brown mustache and beard holds his hands up as if surrendering, from 'Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers'
In Les Blank's Own Words...
Pinocchio started it all for me, in 1940, when I...
ByLesBlank
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Columns
Notes from the Reel World: The Board President's Column, December 1999
By DavidHaugland
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