by Jack Jewers | May 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
In late 1960, a social group from Kansas took a trip to Paris. From half a century on, they look like ambassadors from another age; possessed of the innate self-confidence, tinged with innocence, of Americans abroad at the height of the American century. They took...
by Jack Jewers | May 13, 2020 | Found Films
There’s something dreamlike about the footage used in this episode. Suffused with light and colour, it feels like a memory plucked from the back of someone’s mind. The impressions of a half-remembered day from long, long ago. We witness no great life event here. No...
by Jack Jewers | May 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
I love the people in this film. They are so unmistakably, so completely 1920s-looking, it could almost be a clip from one of Jay Gatsby’s home movie. That is, if Gatsby had led a somewhat more ordinary life. The story here is straightforward – some fairly well to-do...
by Jack Jewers | Apr 17, 2020 | Found Films
Sometime around September or October 1938, a young man took to the streets of his home town in South Dakota to film some of the residents going about their daily lives. The contrasting reactions of the people he meets are a joy to behold. Most of them greet the...
by Jack Jewers | Apr 15, 2020 | Found Films
The World’s Fair (now known as Expo) has been held in a different city every few years since 1851. Perhaps the most iconic of all the fairs was held in New York over the long, hot summer of 1939. The event was a spectacular success, drawing tens of millions of...
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