Archive for the '1953' Category

Film #078 - Peter Pan (1953)

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

I’ve never been a big fan of Disney’s Peter Pan. I don’t know what it is about the film, but I always viewed it with detachment. My recent viewing has done little to change this impression. Maybe it’s the story itself that leaves me a bit cold, I don’t know. Still, […]

Films #060 - #063 - The Ed Wood / Bela Lugosi Collection

Monday, April 30th, 2007

The films that Ed Wood is best known for are undoubtedly those on which he collaborated with his freind Bela Lugosi: Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Monster and, most famously, Plan 9 from Outer Space. In 1994, director Tim Burton filmed a fictionalized version of the making of these films in Ed Wood.
Glen […]

A Dated Look at Our Nuclear Future: Film #228 - A is for Atom (1953)

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Viewed August 16, 2006
A Is For Atom is a cute little cartoon that explains the nature of nuclear energy and its uses in a post World War II society.
The explanatory sequences are really well done and make the nature of nuclear fission understandable for all. Perhaps understandably, they aren’t too detailed on the negative […]