Mattatuck Museum offers wide array of activities for children, adults
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After two years of construction, the Mattatuck Museum is once again open to the public with new exhibitions and an exciting roster of programs and workshops for adults, kids, and families. The 8th annual Matt-Toberfest is set for Aug. 19.Mattatuck Museum / Contributed photo
WATERBURY After two years of construction, the Mattatuck Museum is once again open to the public with new exhibitions and a roster of programs and workshops for adults, kids, and families.
Events:
The Camera as Fact or Fiction: Creating Black Imagery, Aug. 5, 5 p.m. Members free, $5 guests. Does the camera capture fact or fiction? Photographer and filmmaker, Thomas Allen Harris and photographer, Amanda Russhell Wallace will be at the Mattatuck Museum and be exploring different African American artists such as James VanDerZee who used their photography to create a specific black imagery compared to images created by nonblack
May 6, 2021
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An online exhibition of works by Yale students in the course “Archive Aesthetics and Community Storytelling,” taught by filmmaker and artist Thomas Allen Harris, can be viewed by the public on Thursday, May 6.
The exhibition, “Realizing Our Narratives: Home, Identity, Memory,” will be broadcast via Zoom at 6:30 p.m., and is free to all with registration. The exhibition showcases moving-image projects created by students using family albums and archival materials from Yale and beyond to question the workings of memory and identity, and biography and mythology.
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The last VCR was produced in 2016 by Funai Electric in Osaka, Japan. But the VHS tape might be immortal. Today, a robust marketplace exists for it.
On Instagram, sellers tout videos for sale, like the 2003 Jerry Bruckheimer film Kangaroo Jack, a comedy involving a beauty salon owner played by Jerry O Connell and a kangaroo. Asking price, $190.
If $190 feels outrageous for a film about a kangaroo accidentally coming into money, consider the price of a limited-edition copy of the 1989 Disney film The Little Mermaid, which is listed on Etsy for $45,000.
There is, it turns out, much demand for these old VHS tapes, price tags notwithstanding and despite post-2006 advancements in technology. Driving the passion is the belief that VHS offers something that other types of media cannot.
Hannah Selinger, The New York Times
Published: 21 Feb 2021 10:08 AM BdST
Updated: 21 Feb 2021 10:08 AM BdST collection of original VHS boxes at the new Nitehawk Cinema in New York, Dec 12, 2018. The New York Times
The last VCR, according to Dave Rodriguez, 33, a digital-repository librarian at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, was produced in 2016 by Funai Electric in Osaka, Japan. But the VHS tape itself may be immortal. Today, a robust marketplace exists, both virtually and in real life, for this ephemera. );
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On Instagram, sellers tout videos for sale, like the 2003 Jerry Bruckheimer film “Kangaroo Jack,” a comedy involving a beauty salon owner played by Jerry O’Connell and a kangaroo. Asking price, $190. (O’Connell commented on the post from his personal account, writing, “Hold steady. Price seems fair. It is a Classic.”)
The last VCR, according to Dave Rodriguez, 33, a digital-repository librarian at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, was produced in 2016 by Funai Electric in Osaka, Japan. But the VHS tape itself may be immortal. Today, a robust marketplace exists, both virtually and in real life, for this ephemera.