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Charles Evans Hughes Documentary Premiering Online

December 13, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

My Native AirThe new feature documentary, My Native Air: Charles Evans Hughes and the Adirondacks, co-produced by MDT Publishing and Snarky Aardvark Films, is premiering on-demand in a limited run from January 15th to February 15th, 2021. [Read more…] about Charles Evans Hughes Documentary Premiering Online

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Capital-Saratoga, History, Nature Tagged With: art, Charles Evans Hughes, Charles R Wood Theater, Documentary, film, Forest Preserve, Fort Ticonderoga, Glens Falls, Historic Preservation, Judical History, Lake George, Political History

New Documentary On Esopus Creek, From Headwaters to the Hudson

November 30, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Mountain River The Esopus Creek Headwaters to HudsonOn Friday, December 4, at 7 p.m., Tobe Carey will take to Zoom to introduce three cuts from his latest documentary, Mountain River: The Esopus Creek, Headwaters to the Hudson.

This feature-length film follows the Esopus Creek from its headwaters on Slide Mountain in New York’s Catskill Mountains, to the Ashokan Reservoir and on to the Hudson River at Saugerties, NY. [Read more…] about New Documentary On Esopus Creek, From Headwaters to the Hudson

Filed Under: Arts, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature Tagged With: Documentary, Esopus River, Esopus Wars

New Documentary: Journeys Through the Finger Lakes

August 11, 2020 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Journeys Through the Finger LakesThe new documentary by WXXI Public Media and the Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance, Journeys Through the Finger Lakes, celebrates a region deeply rooted in history, agriculture, social change, and sustainability. [Read more…] about New Documentary: Journeys Through the Finger Lakes

Filed Under: History, Nature, Western NY Tagged With: agriculture, Documentary, Finger Lakes, Finger Lakes Museum, Tourism

Virgin Blacktop: A Rockland Skateboard History Doc Showing

October 17, 2019 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

virgin blacktopCharlie Samuels’ first feature documentary film Virgin Blacktop: A New York Skate Odyssey is set to screen at the Adirondack Film Festival in Glens Falls, on Saturday, October 19th at 3 pm.

Virgin Blacktop is an uplifting story shot over four decades about the lives of a disparate crew of kids from Hudson River towns who had almost nothing in common when they met in the 1970s. Virgin Blacktop uses the vehicle of skateboarding to tell the story which. Skateboarding will make its world debut as an official Olympic sport in Tokyo in 2020. [Read more…] about Virgin Blacktop: A Rockland Skateboard History Doc Showing

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Documentary, film, Glens Falls, Saratoga, Sports History

Motion Imagery of Ellis Island Revealed in Stereographs

June 5, 2019 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

Emigrants detained at Ellis Island - Keystone-Mast CollectionStereographs were the latter day virtual reality, an inventive means to immerse the viewer into another place and time. Two photographs are exposed simultaneously but from slightly different perspectives. When the final print is viewed through a stereoscope a depth of field is introduced that brings the photograph more to life.

In 2018 I digitally re-imagined many dozens of American Civil War scenes using an animation process that essentially reveals that same depth of field but on more common 2D screens. In doing so, the need for specific viewing equipment is eliminated and the immersive nature of the stereoscope is maintained. [Read more…] about Motion Imagery of Ellis Island Revealed in Stereographs

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Documentary, Ellis Island, Photography, Technology

Copyright & Fair Use in Early America

March 6, 2019 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldIn the 21st century, we are all creators and users of content. We take original photos with our smartphones, generate blog posts, digital videos, and podcasts. Some of us write books and articles. And nearly everyone contributes content to social media.

Given all of the information and content we generate and use, it’s really important for us to understand the principles of copyright and fair use, principles that have an early American past. [Read more…] about Copyright & Fair Use in Early America

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Constitution, Copyright, Documentary, Early America, Early American History, Fair Use, Media, Podcasts, Publishing, United States

New Book On Adirondack Photographer J.S. Wooley

December 19, 2018 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

JS Wooley adirondack photographerA new book edited by Richard Timberlake and Philip Terrie, J.S. Wooley: Adirondack Photographer (Syracuse University Press, 2018) tells the story of Jesse Sumner Wooley, a gifted and prolific Adirondack photographer at the turn of the twentieth century.

In 1880, Jesse Sumner Wooley, an energetic and entrepreneurial thirteen-year-old farm boy from Saratoga County, took a job as an errand boy for a pair of town photographers. The summer job led to a career that would define Wooley’s life. From that early start, he went on to become a prominent businessman and inventive photographer in Upstate New York. [Read more…] about New Book On Adirondack Photographer J.S. Wooley

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Books, History Tagged With: Adirondacks, Book Notices, Books, Documentary, Photography

1970s Photos of New York Seascapes Exhibit, Reception at Jay Heritage

December 13, 2018 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Manhattan Seascape Jay Heritage Center has announced an exhibit by Robert Gambee, “Manhattan Seascapes,” at their 1907 Carriage House on Saturday, December 15 thru Sunday, December 16, from 2 to 5 pm.

A Champagne Reception, Book Signing and Prints Sale will take place from 2 to 5 pm on Saturday, December 15. The exhibit will also be open for viewing and print purchases on Sunday. Exhibit is free and open to the public. [Read more…] about 1970s Photos of New York Seascapes Exhibit, Reception at Jay Heritage

Filed Under: Events, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Documentary, East River, Hudson River, Jay Heritage Center, Manhattan, Maritime History, New York Harbor, Photography

New Documentary on New York Governor Mario Cuomo

October 21, 2016 by Bob Cudmore Leave a Comment

The Historians LogoThis week on “The Historians” podcast, Matt Ryan of WMHT public television discusses his documentary, “Mario Cuomo: Poetry and Prose,” that features interviews and archival video from the long-running statewide program “Inside Albany.”

You can listen to the podcast here. [Read more…] about New Documentary on New York Governor Mario Cuomo

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Documentary, Podcasts, Political History

Hudson Valley Ruins Photo Exhibit Opens at NYS Museum

August 24, 2016 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

NYTrapRockCorpThe New York State Museum has opened “Hudson Valley Ruins,” a photography and architecture exhibition.

On display through December 31, 2017, the exhibition features over 80 photographs by Robert Yasinsac and Thomas Rinaldi documenting forgotten historic sites and cultural treasures in the Hudson River Valley.

The exhibition is based on Yasinsac and Rinaldi’s 2006 book, Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape. In addition to great river estates, the book and exhibition profiles sites meaningful to everyday life in the Hudson Valley: churches, hotels, commercial and civic buildings, mills, and train stations. The exhibition explores many of these abandoned places and also revisits several sites that have changed in the past ten years since the book’s publication. [Read more…] about Hudson Valley Ruins Photo Exhibit Opens at NYS Museum

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Architecture, Documentary, Historic Preservation, Hudson River Valley, Photography

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