Tag: history
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When Books Went to War
During WW2, the US government and the publishing industry joined forces to provide US military personnel with books. Initially they had book drives, collecting donations from civilians. But hardback books were too big and heavy for soldiers to carry in the field and paperbacks weren’t really a thing back then. So they set about designing…
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Newbie’s Guide to HK Cinema, Part II
As mentioned in my last post, I contributed content to a friend’s website in the early aughts. Ken specifically asked for a newcomer’s guide to Hong Kong cinema and split what I gave him into two parts. If you missed Part I, here it is. At some future date, I may revisit this topic. There…
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Newbie’s Guide to HK Cinema, Part I
I looked up my friend Ken’s site (AngelicVoices.com) on the wayback machine and found some old stuff I posted there, circa 2002. My primary movie obsession back then was Hong Kong cinema so Ken asked me to write a guide for newbies with recommendations. Note that this is a snapshot from 2002. Back then it…
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History
Back in the late 90s I built my first website. It was very primitive—just text and links and no CSS. I called it ‘The Vault of Keeba’. It was mostly a collection of capsule reviews of obscure movies, with occasional full page reviews of movies in theaters. I still have the files for that website.…