Criterion Collection

Kathleen Fitzpatrick's picture

Past and Present at if:book

Last week, our friend Bob Stein at the Institute for the Future of the Book marked a couple of very cool anniversaries: first, of the release in 1984 of the very first titles from the Criterion Collection, laserdisc editions of King Kong and Citizen Kane; second, of the release in 1989 of Robert Winter’s CD Companion to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Twenty-five and twenty years ago, respectively, these projects took enormous steps toward developing the kind of integrated media environments on which many of us at MediaCommons work today.... read more »