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Tot your viewing pleasure, the UNL
Extension Division's Instructional Media
Center is showing films each Wednesday
throughout the summer in the Nebraska
Union main lounge. Included in this
Summer of '76 Film Festival" is the
award-winning series, "America, A
Personal History of the United States,"
with Alistair Cooke. The series takes a
look at America through the movie
cameras of the early film industry.
The film festival's schedule is listed
below:
June 9 "America: The New Found
Land' Alistair Cooke
explains how the white man
got to North America.
America: Home Away From
' Home" From the first
Plymouth struggles to a
nodern Massachusetts
Thanksgiving; contrasting
American ideals show up in
all their variety.
America" Making a
RevoIution-AIistair Cooke,
traces America's tradition of
turning to arms in the face of
trouble.
"Multiple Man-The vast
similarities among men of all
cultures is shown by
examining universal
institutions such as marriage
and kinship, religion,
technology and amusement.
"The Dentist-A rather
placid breakfast, a run-in with
the ice-man and a hole-in-one
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at the golf course start W.C.
Field's day. Later, at the
office, we see him treat
several patients in the usual,
roughshod Field's manner.
"America: Inventing A
Nation"-The secret
Independence IlaD debates
involving Hamilton, Mason
and Madison set precedence
for modern politics, while a
visit to Jefferson's Virginia
home, MonticeCo, gives
insight into the mind which
created our E21 of Rights.
Sentinels of Silencer
Narrated by Orson Welles and
shot entirely from a heli
copter, this film examines
pre-Columbian civilization in
Mexico.
Hasty Marriage"-Most of
the action takes place around,
inside or on top of the trolley
cars in the depression days of
1931. Charley Chase and
Jimmy Finlayson star in the
film.
No films.
America: Gone West "-In
1803 the Louisiana Purchase
is made and Lewis and Clarke
are seat on a mission to the
Pacific. The distant
waterways are explored.
Expansionist whites force
Indian nations west of the
Mississippi The f2m includes
the beginning of the
California gold rush.
June 23
June 30
July 7
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"BravermanV Condensed
Cream of Beatles"-A history
of the Beatles and the 1960's
from the flip, exuberant,
youthful days to the sober,
socially conscious, end of the
decade.
"Girls in Dangers-Features a
" cavalcade of ladies in distress.
Stars include Mae Marsh,
Gloria Swanson and Beatrice
Joy.
July 14 America: A Fireball in the
Nfehf-Grcat splits in our
nation's past and present are
summarized ' in the causes,
splendors and miseries of the
Civil War and in the racial
wounds which still trouble
the land.
How Do They Make
Baseball Bats?-With a series
of comedy improvisations
using a miniature bat,
Jonathan Winters leads into
the process of making
baseball bats.
America: Domesticating A
Wilderness' The nation
again turns West. Mormons
make the Utah desert bloom.
A transcontinental rail link is
driven across awesome
terrain. European immigrants
populate the midlands. The
Indians last desperate
struggles explode in the
Custer massacre and the
Battle of Wounded Knee.
July 21 "America: ' Money on the
Land"-Chicago-a deposit of
raw material ready for mass
cultivation and processing is
readied for exploitation by
opportunistic, turn-of-the
century industrialists. The
Rockefellers, Caraegies and
Vanderbilts move in.
"Frank Fi!in"-A flood of
Jcr.s 7, 1976
collages of cut-out pictures
znd parts of pictures all
related to our object-oriented
society-familiar to anyone
who has lived in America
from the 1940s to- the
present.
'Pigs-A pictorial story
without narration on the
nature, characteristics, and
behavior of pigs.
Dracula-The first screen
version of "Draccla, made in
1922. Shows grim scenes of
the vampire stalking his
victims at night.
July 23 "America: The Huddled
Masses-Ships holds, EEs
Island, the Lower East Side,
garment factory sweat
shops-all scenes evoking
turn-of-the-century immigra
tion. Old photographs of the
poor newcomers plight
contrast with oil portraits of
tycoons who got fat at. their,
expense.
"How Do They Make
Pennies?-Jonathan Winters
is the guide through the
process at the United States
Mint in Philadelphia.
'America: The Promise
Fulfilled and the Promise
Broken Veterans returning
from the "war to end all
wars"; the 20s boom with
the speakeasies; rumble-seat
sex; saxophones and a
best-seller called The Man
Nobody Knows; and
then-the Crash. Alistair.
Cooke shows the onslaught of
the Depression and the
meaning of The New DeaL
