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Marvelous Movie Mondays!!

EPFC | October 17th, 2016

Marvelous Movie Mondays!!
guest curator: Salise Hughes

Our theme this month is Seattle Plays Hollywood, where we will look at a collection of clips from five Seattle inspired movies and TV series that impose a little Hollywood glamour and surrealism on my home town.

Trouble in Mind was released in 1985 and takes place on the mean streets of “Rain City”. By the mid 80s Seattle was showing up on lists as the most livable city in the country, so director Alan Rudolph decided to create a Weimar-SciFi-Noir version of the city complete with the title song sung by Marianne Faithfull, and Divine in her only non-drag role. Divine plays a millionaire villainist art collector who lives in a mansion created out of the Seattle Art Museum. Local artists were asked to fill the set with their paintings and sculptures, so you also have a snapshot of the Seattle’s 80s art scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxXT8cHI12Y

Marvelous Movie Mondays

EPFC | October 10th, 2016

Marvelous Movie Mondays!!
guest curator: Salise Hughes

Our theme this month is Seattle Plays Hollywood, where we will look at a collection of clips from five Seattle inspired movies and TV series that impose a little Hollywood glamour and surrealism on my home town.

McQ is a 1974 film staring John Wayne as an aging Seattle cop who lives on a house boat. According to Wikipedia Dirty Harry was originally to be shot in Seattle and was offered first to Wayne who turned it down. Feeling he made a mistake Wayne made McQ and kept the Seattle location. this was the era of the great car chases and I had to choose from two posted on Youtube. One is a tour of downtown Seattle and I-5 freeway ramps reminiscent of the car chase in Bullitt made a few years earlier. But the other is the final climatic chase ending on the Washington coastline. The action of the scene is framed by the pristine and very chilly ocean beach of the Quinault Indian Reservation.

Marriage, Chinese Style

EPFC | October 3rd, 2016

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Salise Hughes

Our theme this month is Seattle Plays Hollywood, where we will look at a collection of clips from five Seattle inspired movies and TV series that impose a little Hollywood glamour and surrealism on my home town.

This week we will look at an episode of the late 60s TV series Here Come The Brides: Marriage, Chinese Style.

Here Come The Brides was a series that ran from 1968- 1970, and was very loosely based on the true story of Asa Mercer’s efforts to bring marriageable women from the east coast to Seattle in the 1860s. A lot of the show’s popularity was due to teen idol Bobbie Sherman as one of the three brothers, again very loosely based on the Mercers. The show also featured the hit song, The Bluest Skies You’ve Ever Seen Are In Seattle sung by Perry Como. In this episode, Marriage, Chinese Style, Bruce Lee, who was an actual Seattle resident is featured.

 

 

PM Magazine

EPFC | September 26th, 2016

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Jennifer Juniper Stratford

For the final round of Behind the Scenes here is an episode of PM Magazine about the making of PM Magazine.

Evening/PM Magazine was a half-hour local program that was in production at many stations from the late 1970s through the early ’90s. The show pioneered the use of small-format videotape field equipment and electronic editing to tell stories about local people, places and things. The program was known as “Evening Magazine” at the five Group W stations (Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and San Francisco) and “PM Magazine” on other stations where it was franchised. “Evening/PM” was seen on over 100 stations at it peak, and usually aired at either 7:00 or 7:30 P.M. This 1981 segment from WBZ-TV’s “Evening” illustrates how a typical story was produced using the television technology of the era: Sony 3/4-inch videotape decks, Ikegami HL-79 field camera, Datatron edit controller, Grass Valley Group 1600 switcher, and RCA TR-600 quadruplex VTRs.

 

 

The Next Generation

EPFC | September 19th, 2016

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Jennifer Juniper Stratford

Continuing the theme of Behind The Scenes , this week Levar Burton takes Reading Rainbow behind the scenes of his other TV show Star Trek The Next Generation during its first season. Levar shows viewers what goes on outside of the frame as well as all the hard work and creativity going on in the editing bays and special fx departments. It’s pretty spectacular, but you don’t have to take my word for it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WwwytrwBj8