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Into The Streets

EPFC | November 7th, 2016

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
Guest curator: David Zlutnick

This month’s theme is “Documenting the Movements,” featuring short video covering contemporary struggles for social justice. With tomorrow being Election Day, it seems to many (and it may very well be true) that the fate of the world hangs in the balance. Yet oddly enough there were three 90-minute presidential debates during which not one question was asked about climate change, an issue that really could doom humanity unless urgent action is taken. As such I figured it was appropriate to lead off this month with a short documentary looking at the environmental justice movement, and specifically the global movement for climate action.

In September 2014 hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of New York City to participate in the People’s Climate March, demanding global action against climate change. Though several international mass actions have taken place since, it was and remains the largest ever protest for climate justice. The Meerkat Media Collective (meerkatmedia.org), based in NYC, produced an excellent short documentary about the march, capturing beautiful images from the day along with a diverse mix of voices from those participating.

Watch Into the Streets here:

Marvelous Movie Mondays!!

EPFC | October 31st, 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.

For the last week I saved what many consider the crown jewel of Hollywoodized Seattle, Elvis roaming Seattle Center in It Happened at the Worlds Fair. The film was apparently the brain child of then Seattle mayor Albert Roselline to promote the 1962 Seattle’s Worlds Fair, and pitched it to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives. It features a young Kurt Russell in his first film appearance, kicking Elvis in the shins.

Marvelous Movie Mondays!!

EPFC | October 24th, 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.

Tugboat Annie Sails Again was a 1940 sequel to the very popular Tugboat Annie made in 1933 staring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery. The title character of Annie, the salty skipper of the tugboat Narcissus was rumored to be based on Thea Foss, the founder of Tacoma’s Foss Maritime Co., but Norman Reilly Raine the author of the Tugboat Annie series described the character as “a symbol of all the American women who follow the sea. A cantankerous old lovable seahorse who could out cuss, out fight, and out smart any man on the waterfront”. The story was certainly influenced by the Foss Maritime Co, and the story takes place in the fictional town of Secoma, along with footage of Seattle’s Lake Union. Dressler was too ill for the sequel, but this version featured a young Ronald Reagan as Annie’s ward. Reagan used to tell about the world premiere in Tacoma. The audience was very excited about the sequel based on the popularity of the original, but when they saw how bad it was the cast had to run for their lives.

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

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.