DVD Review: How the West Was Won – Ultimate Collector’s Edition
In the 1950’s, the relatively new medium of television was all the rage in American homes. Families no longer felt the same desire to trudge to their local cinema, when this new “tube” could beam entertainment to them in the comfort of their own homes. Feeling the pinch, Hollywood movie makers new they had to […]
DVD Review: African American Lives 2
Genealogy is a fascinating thing. The more you learn, the more you realize we are all interconnected in ways that most of us never would have imagined. In 2006, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. a Harvard professor and writer served as co-producer and host for the PBS series, African American Lives. The series used genealogical […]
DVD Review: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume Three – The Years of Change
I never watched The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles when it began airing on television back in 1992. Now, having watched the series, repackaged as a series of films for the DVD release, I regret I didn’t watch the show much earlier. Based on the early life of Indiana Jones as he was growing up and […]
DVD Review: Pioneers of Television
In this age of 500 channel, cable, satellite and HD TV, it’s easy to forget that television itself is just over eighty years old. Originally invented by Philo Farnsworth in 1927, television took more than twenty years to become a staple in American homes. In 1945 there were fewer than 7,000 working television sets in […]