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Is the Wilderness Act Still Relevant?
Get PDFForty years later, an imperfect but noble document presses humans to practice restraint
Benton MacKaye and the Tattered Ten
Get PDFWhile leading a camping trip through the Whites in 1902, the founder of the Appalachian Trail witnessed a threatened forest ecosystem and reflected on the value of wilderness
Ellesmere: Trekking Along the Top of the World
Get PDFAs far north as one can go in the world and still be on land
Seeing through the Haverstraw Tunnel
Get PDFThe American Mutoscope Company’s The Haverstraw Tunnel was one of the most popular screenings of 1897, inspiring ecstatic rhetoric in descriptions of the experience of watching the original “phantom ride” train film. Historians appropriated such language (“an unseen energy swallows up space”) to theorize about early cinema. Yet until 2020, this significant production was difficult to see. The one-minute recording was shot and projected on large-format 68mm film stock, producing a high-resolution image as seen from the front of an express train traveling along the Hudson River. This essay recounts the archival research process abetted by the Library of Congress and British Film Institute National Archive. In 2020 the library provided digital access to its 16mm film print, created in 1955 from a paper print. This research then culminated with the British archive providing access to its 2018 restoration of Haverstraw Tunnel, an 8K scan of an original 68mm print