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Block Cinema Awarded National Grant to Preserve Films by Kentucky Animator Ed Counts

Project highlights Block Cinema’s growing role as a center for media research and discovery at Northwestern University. The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University has received a Basic Preservation Grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) to support the restoration and preservation of four rare films by independent Kentucky animator Ed Counts (1946–2009). […]

Mexican Animation & American Propaganda: The Block hosts first US screening of lost Cold War cartoons

For scholar, visual artist, and philosopher Byron Davies, a collection of finely crafted anti-communist propaganda cartoons produced in Mexico by some of the country’s top animators with support from the United States government offers a window into the relationship between the United States and Latin America, insight into the economy and function of propaganda, and […]