Thursday, October 31, 1985
Daily Nebraskan
As a 16-year-old, film professor
loaded cameras for Andy Warhol
By Kris Leach
Staff Reporter
A man of many interests, including
teaching, writing, and film, UNL Pro
fessor Wheeler Dixon said he prefers to
be identified as a writer rather than a
filmmaker.
Dixon's writing accomplishments in
clude the just-published book "Direc
tors: A Biographical Directory," pub
lished by the Scarecrow Press of
London. The book documents 400
directors and their 11,000 movies.
Dixon's current work "Producers
Releasing Corporation," published by
McFarland Press, is scheduled to come
out this spring. It concentrates on
many unknown "B" movie directors.
A third book, "Cinematic Vision of F.
Scott Fitzgerald," to be published by
I'MI Research Press, will be released
next fall. Its theme focuses on the last
three years of Fitzgerald's life.
And films Dixon made through grants
from the Southwest Media Alternate
Project are scheduled to be shown at
Sheldon Art Gallery May 3.
Dixon said he has always been inter
ested in film. When he was 16, Dixon
said he gained his first experiences
working as a camera loader under Andy
Warhol.
After four years with Warhol, Dixon
continued his career at the New Arts
Lab in London. At the lab, everything
was intensely creative and a feeling of
cooperative effort affected the filming,
Dixon said.
He then traveled back to the United
States where he decided to finish up
his doctorate at Rutgers University in
New Jersey. After graduating Dixon
taught at Rutgers from 1972-1984. Last
year Dixon decided to accept the posi
tion here at UNL teaching film history
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Sheldon gets Dolby sound system
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The Sheldon Film Theatre has in
stalled a new Dolby Stereo Sound
System.
Replacing the single speaker,
monaural system installed in 1964, the
new system provides greater audio
fidelity and a much greater sense of
realism by using nine speakers.
Three main speakers are placed
behind the screen. Six "surround"
speakers are installed on the side and
rear walls in the auditorium.
With this equipment, the theater
can take advantage of Dolby sound
tracks that, over the last few years, are -standard
on most new films. This in
cludes the contemporary, independ
ently produced films that are the main
emphasis of the film theatre's program,
as well as the commercially produced
films it shows. The equipment will also
improve the sound reproduction of
older classic films and current films
with non-Dolby tracks.
Only three other theaters in Lincoln
and another 14 theaters in the re
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Dolby sound.
The new system was made possible
by major contributions from Mary R.
Ross, the Cleone Anderson Memorial
fund, the Cooper Foundation, the UNL
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Friends of the Sheldon Film Theater.
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