Celebrating the book-release of [i][b]Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States[/b][/i], [b]Rick Prelinger[/b] hosts a smörgåsbord of exemplars from the golden age of educational filmmaking. Made for American classrooms, these mid-century shorts are both artful and banal, timely and dated, stimulating and campy. Preceded by the NorCal premiere of the pithy [b][i]Re-Presenting Prelinger[/i][/b], Rick's PowerPoint highlights [b]Jam Handy[/b], the acknowledged master of the genre. He also focuses on the sinister scare tactics of [b]Sid Davis[/b] in a 10-min. clip from [b]Ken Smith[/b]'s [b][i]Sidvision[/i][/b], and with a 16mm excerpt of [b]Davis[/b]' [b][i]Dangerous Strangers[/i][/b]. In fact, there's over an hour of sublimely ridiculous celluloid, with [b]Carol Ballard[/b]'s [b][i]Pigs[/i][/b], [b][i]Daddy's Girl[/i][/b], [b][i]We Live in a Trailer[/i][/b], [b][i]The Day I Died[/i][/b], a [b][i]Science in Action[/i][/b] fragment, and [b]Skip[/b] (AV Geeks) [b]Elsheimer[/b]'s [b][i]Vandalism[/i][/b] pick. PLUS [b]Paul[/b] and [b]Glenda Fillinger[/b], here in person after a career in the ed-film business, to share a pair of their extraordinary pieces. Free toast and jam!
March 17, 2012
Other Cinema @ Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94410
8:30pm
$7.77
Celebrating the book-release of [i][b]Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States[/b][/i], [b]Rick Prelinger[/b] hosts a smörgåsbord of exemplars from the golden age of educational filmmaking. Made for American classrooms, these mid-century shorts are both artful and banal, timely and dated, stimulating and campy. Preceded by the NorCal premiere of the pithy [b][i]Re-Presenting Prelinger[/i][/b], Rick's PowerPoint highlights [b]Jam Handy[/b], the acknowledged master of the genre. He also focuses on the sinister scare tactics of [b]Sid Davis[/b] in a 10-min. clip from [b]Ken Smith[/b]'s [b][i]Sidvision[/i][/b], and with a 16mm excerpt of [b]Davis[/b]' [b][i]Dangerous Strangers[/i][/b]. In fact, there's over an hour of sublimely ridiculous celluloid, with [b]Carol Ballard[/b]'s [b][i]Pigs[/i][/b], [b][i]Daddy's Girl[/i][/b], [b][i]We Live in a Trailer[/i][/b], [b][i]The Day I Died[/i][/b], a [b][i]Science in Action[/i][/b] fragment, and [b]Skip[/b] (AV Geeks) [b]Elsheimer[/b]'s [b][i]Vandalism[/i][/b] pick. PLUS [b]Paul[/b] and [b]Glenda Fillinger[/b], here in person after a career in the ed-film business, to share a pair of their extraordinary pieces. Free toast and jam!
March 17, 2012
Other Cinema @ Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94410
8:30pm
$7.77
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