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Salute Your Shorts: Sidney Lumet's "Three Plays by Tennessee Williams"

By Sean Gandert at 5:00 PM on April 22, 2010

Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.At the end of last year, Criterion’s release of The Golden Age of TV was landmark moment for DVD, not just due to the quality of its material but also due to its rarity. As far as I’m aware, that release was the first time that kinescopes had been transferred onto DVD. Kinescopes are recordings, generally 16mm, of live television broadcasts that, due to the technicalities of frame rate differences and the degradation of old TV... read more