Category Archives: My collection

This is the final film in the series, “The Court Martial at Rennes” because two other films have been lost. The court martial takes place at the Lycée in Rennes. The bailiff of the court strides up and makes an announcement. The … Continue reading →

“The Attempt against the Life of Maître Labori” is the seventh film in the series. It begins with Maitre Labori, Alfred Dreyfus’s lawyer, along with Colonel Georges Picquart, the man who discovered that Esterhazy was the traitor and not Dreyfus, … Continue reading →

In this film, “Landing of Dreyfus at Quiberon,” Méliès shows Dreyfus arriving at Quiberon on a dark and stormy night. In the cloudy background lightening flashes. This is one of the very first special effects ever, George Méliès is called the … Continue reading →

The next film in the series by George Méliès is “Dreyfus is Put in Irons”. The scene takes place in Dreyfus’s cell, he is asleep and two guards enter and wake him up. One guard reads Dreyfus something from a … Continue reading →

In 1899 Georges Méliès made a series of short films about the Dreyfus Affair. The first of these films was on the Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s arrest. After the discovery of the famous bordereau, a letter to the German spy Esterhazy … Continue reading →

With only twenty some odd more days till my favorite holiday, Christmas, something had felt missing. This is my first year not living at home during the Christmas “season” and it’s definitely strange to say the least. Besides not being … Continue reading →

Late last night I got a call from a friend asking me if I wanted to go to a museum in the morning. My initial reaction was, I do not want to wake up early on a Saturday, since I … Continue reading →

One really cool exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, was the New York Interiors: Furnishings for the Empire City. This exhibit displays six different rooms from the colonial era to the early 1900s. They show very … Continue reading →

I have always loved New York, the vitality, the availability of anything and everything, the acceptance of all kinds of people, the subway, the skyscrapers, the ideals of the city, the hopes of those that come here. This film, Timescapes, … Continue reading →

After lazing away an hour or so after my last class in the destitute Hunter Library that seems to have more portraits than people after five o’clock, I met up with Taylor and Sarah to see the play Antigone. I had … Continue reading →