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Engineer’s Room: Happy 125th Birthday, Dracula!

On May 26, 1897 Bram Stoker published Dracula, a Gothic horror novel featuring the titular vampire Count, and our collective nightmares have never been the same. Dracula is an epi... More

Українське кіно (Ukrainian Cinema)

Below is a list of Ukrainian motion pictures in the EIDR Content ID registry. Title Year EIDR ID Shemelko-Denshchyk 1910 10.5240/5F1E-DE86-8FDA-9234-2840-I ... More

Now We Can Read, Sam-I-Am!

March 2 marked the birthday of Theodor Geisel (1904-1991), American author, illustrator, political cartoonist, and generally weird guy better known by his middle name and a self-ap... More

We Love Our TV Moms

Many of us grew up as latchkey children with the family television as our regular babysitter.[1] If you watched enough television as a child, you had a favorite TV mom – a woman ... More

December Milestones

Dec. 17 is principally known for three things: Pope Clemens VII establishes the Inquisition in 1526 The first sustained motorized airplane flies at Kitty Hawk, NC in 1903 ... More

Poverty Row’s Poster Child: PRC

Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) is not a household name, but it played an important role in the U.S. theatrical market during its run from 1939–1947.[1] At the time, the Bi... More

How to Automate EIDR Registration

An automated EIDR integration is possible, even if you have multiple title management systems. You will need your tech team to build or piggyback onto existing technology. Here’s... More

The King of the Double Feature

American International Pictures (AIP)[1] was the king of the American double feature in the post-Studio era, operating from the mid-1950s until the early 1980s.[2] It specialized i... More

There’s Always Room for Pie

At a recent brunch, a friend used a slice of boysenberry pie as a waffle topping (with ice cream, of course). He liked it so much, he did it again. Personally, I like to keep my wa... More

The Revolution Can Be Televised

On the Fourth of July each year, Americans mark a solemn observation of the time when our ancestors overthrew the crushing yoke of foreign imperialism in the traditional American ... More

Juneteenth

Juneteenth is an annual commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. The name is a portmanteau[1] of June Nineteenth, in reference to June 19, 1865 when General Order ... More

Around the World (and then Some)

May 5 is celebrated around the world[1] as the birthday of Nellie Bly (née Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 – Jan. 27, 1922), the most famous person to come from Pennsylvania... More