Another Old Movie Blog

Do you remember the first movie you saw unaccompanied by grownups? Last week in our post on The Grand Theater of Indian Orchard, Massac...

We have a triple-play of baseball-related themes on my blogs this week, from amateur play in the 18th and 19th centuries on my New England T...

I think we’re all due for a refresher course from those good folks at Coronet classroom instructional films: “Are You Popular?” (1947).

Grace’s ‘sensible’ shoes were so sensible that the only other persons I had ever seen wearing them were old maids who taught compulsory Lati...

Here is the former Grand Theater of Indian Orchard, Massachusetts. Indian Orchard is a neighborhood in Springfield, and this movie theater h...

In one way or another, my three blogs this week, “New England Travels,” “Tragedy and Comedy in New England” and this one, all intertwine wit...

Some very good guesses as to the identifies of these motorists and movies.   Here they are: 1. Clifton Webb and Dorothy McGuire in “Three ...

Now that the weather’s turning more mild and the sun hangs a bit higher in the sky every day, let’s go for drive. See if you can name these ...

A rainy Easter afternoon, 1958, and live TV from New York City on the Dumont network. This is in several parts, so if you get hooked on thi...

Here’s a jazzy Peter Cottontail cartoon from 1950 or 1951, directed by Bobie Cannon, from UPA. (Don't forget to scroll down to the bo...

Last week, I enjoyed a lovely visit in person from your friend and mine, John Hayes, who mans the controls over at Robert Frost’s Banjo . ...

“Dial M for Murder” (1954) and “A Perfect Murder” (1998) provide a contrast between supposedly what was and supposedly what is in terms of ...