1984, 40 Years After: Rediscovering a Pivotal Year in American Independent Cinema
Join us on the 6th floor of Hatcher next Thursday, 18 April between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event!
Students in FTVM 435 have spent this semester engaged in studying the films and documents of the Mavericks & Makers Collection with a keen eye toward those films made in 1984. Students will share documents found within the archival boxes and present poster boards designed to explore specific thematic concepts. Films include "The Brother from Another Planet," "Choose Me," "Stop Making Sense," "Swing Shift," and "Secret Honor" (filmed on the U-M Campus at the Martha Cook Building.)
Poster session presentations will begin at 4:15 pm. Join us in the Special Collections Research Center on the 6th floor of the Hatcher Library.
And be sure to check out the other Third Thursdays at the Library events, with selections from International Studies and the Clark Library!
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Actor Victor Jory for Delta Airlines
Those of you who've seen GONE WITH THE WIND will recall Victor Jory playing the cruel overseer. Of course, beyond that one part, he was a very talented actor with a long and varied career on stage and screen (he was even in an episode of KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER!) but I'll bet you didn't know he did a job for Delta Airlines in 1963. I didn't, until we started inventorying the Protestant Radio & Television Center material here at the archives. The filmmakers at PRTVC mostly created religious radio broadcasts and films, but they took on some commercial work as well. Clearly, they worked with Delta Airlines, one of the biggest corporations headquartered in Atlanta.
In this reel of outtakes, Jory appears to tell us a story about how fabulous Delta is. He either plays himself or a generic businessman, needing to fly somewhere for work. And he wants to tell us how the trip went, from his office, and using a film.
First, look at all the U.S. locations Delta flies in 1963! (so many!)
At the airport, he encounters the friendly ticket agent,
pockets his ticket
gets his seat (look how large the seats are!), probably in first class:
and then gets served a huge meal with champagne being poured!
I see steak (I think), corn, a stuffed tomato, a dinner roll, a salad, breadsticks, and chocolate pudding for dessert:
And after the flight, he picks up his own luggage. A humble actor, no personal assistant here.
I don't know how the story ends, but I'll bet Jory had a great time doing this job, earned a great paycheck, and I'll bet his flight from L.A. to Atlanta was free and he probably did get champagne. We're pleased the material has survived, the Ektachrome color is still so fabulous, and we can share it with you.
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At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose. Due to differing copyright laws around the world, there is no one single public domain — and here we focus on three of the most prominent.
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