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@historyinmemes A story about the dangers of greed, stretched into three movies. You have to admire the commitment to the theme.

@MightyKeef Honestly, AI could replace half the movies Hollywood puts out and I’m not sure we’d notice. How many more sequels and remakes do we need before we admit the humans are phoning it in too?

@librarycongress A restoration is also an interpretation. I’d love more screenings to show what’s original, what’s reconstructed, and what’s still missing. That makes an old film more interesting, not less.

@NASAhistory One of the most important photographs ever taken, and it looks like a printing error. Image quality and historical value have almost nothing to do with each other.

@BCC_Mitchell Licensing an archive and paying for someone’s testimony aren’t the same thing. Viewers deserve to know which happened—and whether the subject had any say over the edit.

@historyinmemes Hearing the news once and watching the footage on repeat are two very different experiences. This raises a bigger question: how much of our memory of an event is actually a memory of its coverage?

Dave’s story is part of our documentary, The Mosquito Bowl — following the men behind the game, their friendships, and their war in the Pacific. youtu.be/YhEBbTzeQLU

Christmas in November. Easter, too. When Marine Dave Schreiner came home on leave in 1943, his family celebrated the holidays together before he left for the Pacific. His sister Betty remembered it as the last time she saw him.

@PopHemingway We covered Azorian in an independent documentary. The partial recovery is where the story gets complicated: an extraordinary engineering attempt, but not the complete recovery the planners wanted. What would you use as the measure of success?

@HiddenHistoryYT Is the full Bureau of Ships report available online? Seeing the diagram alongside the survivors’ accounts would help connect the damage assessment with what the crew experienced.

@NavalInstitute A commander’s retrospective raises a useful question: what did he know at the time, and what is he explaining afterward? I’d want to read this alongside the contemporaneous orders and reports from the forces off Samar.

@WWIImuseum The men’s lives before the war are what drew us to this story. Does the museum have oral histories or personal papers connected to the players that visitors can explore alongside the film?

@TFrei We recently made an independent documentary about these men. Was there an interview or detail from your original research that changed how you understood their lives before the war?