Hello all!
We hope you’ve been having a good week and that your studies have been going well. We can’t believe the semester is almost over!
Brownie Cameras!
Recently, the lab had a brownie camera workshop for our student employees where we deconstructed Kodak Brownie cameras, cleaned their innards and inspected any damage, and put them back together. Hopefully we will have some interesting black and white photography to share here in the future. 😊
Demo of the Week
The demo of the week is Top Fuel Eliminator for the Apple //c!
Stop by and enjoy a retro racing game originally released in 1987.
Object of the Week
The object of the week is the black and white movie Godzilla (1954) by Ishiro Honda!
Did you know that this film is free to borrow and watch on the Internet Archive? Almost 70 years old this year, this movie still holds up as an excellent watch. It is a lot more somber than you would expect. Most people nowadays associate Godzilla with tacky merchandise and an epic scale of destruction, but originally Godzilla was posed as a very frightening consequence of nuclear war. If you have only seen Godzilla, King of Monsters!, I would still recommend giving the original version a watch-through; the ending has a noticeably different tone.
There is quite a lot of interesting retro technology featured in the film. Old telephones, antenna TVs, and automobiles, it is a fascinating movie for media archeology purposes. This movie epitomizes our lab’s motto “We dig culture.”
Lab Hours and Room Number
We are located in ATEC 1.705, right next to ATEC’s welcome center. Our open lab hours are:
Monday: 4:00pm-6:00pm
Tuesday: 1:00pm-4:00pm
Wednesday: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Thursday: 4:00pm-6:00pm
Thank you for reading our newsletter! We hope to see you soon and wish you a stress-free week.
Sincerely,
The Media Archeology Lab
The University of Texas at Dallas