September 12, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film#Franklymydear, we want your best line “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” The iconic last words of Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind almost weren’t, because use of the word “damn” in films was expressly prohibited in the Production Code. Anticipating objections by the Hays Office (the entity that governed moral code… read more
May 14, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, FilmTomorrow in the theater: “All Quiet on the Western Front” Tomorrow, May 15, the Ransom Center will screen All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), the second film of the World War I Film Series, held in conjunction with the current exhibition, The World at War, 1914–1918. The film will be shown in the Ransom Center’s theater at 7 p.m.… read more
April 12, 2012, Filed Under: Cataloging, Research + TeachingDecades later, current headlines echo controversies addressed in Morris Ernst collection Through a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a team of archivists and student interns has been working to organize and catalog the papers of attorney Morris Leopold Ernst since September 2009. The collection is now open for research, and a finding aid is available online. Morris… read more
