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Gathering Goateggs's avatar

You and Ted Gioia are my absolute favorite Substackers. Within a couple of days you post this about film technology of the late 1910s and Ted posts about how the change in recording technology from the 1920s to the 1930 is the reason 1920s jazz aged so fast. I absolutely adored Jackson's film -- I went to see it in a theater and then bought a DVD. And I absolutely adore 1920s jazz -- pops, clicks, and all. But I wish someone could contrive to do for Bix Beiderbecke and King Oliver what Jackson did.

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James Nick's avatar

I’ll have to add this to my “must see” list. I avoid war films but this sounds like it would be worth the discomfort.

On a related note, not too long ago I had a conversation with a person in her early thirties. She told me that for many of her contemporaries, WWII, and especially the Holocaust, held no emotional meaning and was only something they’d read about in history class. In fact, many of them doubted the veracity of the magnitude of the savagery and inhumanity of that time. I suppose this is a repeated phenomenon. I guess it could also be a part of the reason for the antipathy many young people feel toward Israel and Jews in general.

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