TONIGHT - Tuesday, March 23 - Shooting in the Wild

Tuesday, March 23 at 7pm

Preceded by a reception at 6pm next to the Wechsler Theater (with drinks and food)

Shooting in the Wild: An Insider’s Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom

An Evening with Chris Palmer. Introduced by Caroline Gabel, Board Chair, Environmental Film Festival

Using clips from his award-winning films on bears, wolves, and whales, Chris Palmer offers preview of his insights in the wildlife film business from his upcoming book, Shooting in the Wild, which will be published in May by Sierra Club Books. Chris will also announce the winners of the Eco Comedy Video Competition and show select clips.

Selected New Home Use Titles

The Red Shoes - HU DVD 105
The Front - HU DVD 343
Our Daily Bread - HU DVD 478
W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films - HU DVD 507
My Life as a Dog - HU DVD 508
Beat Street - HU DVD 662
Faraw! - HU DVD 2328
Haramuya - HU DVD 2329
Ponyo - HU DVD 6937
South Park (Seasons 1-4) - HU DVD 6951-6962

Trashy Travels: Baltimore: John Waters's Movie Locations and other Divine Dirt

To know Baltimore is to love Baltimore. Baltimore filmmaker loves his city and continues to situate his movies there. If you're a fan of the director of Hairspray, Polyester, and Pink Flamingos and have a car you might want to make a pilgrimage.

Trashy Travels link

AdViews: A digital archive of vintage television commercials

Quoted from the AdViews site:
"AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). Founded in 1929, Benton & Bowles was a New York advertising agency that merged with D'Arcy Masius McManus in 1985 to form DMB&B. Major clients included are Procter & Gamble, Kraft, Schick, Vicks, and Post, among others. Commercials will be added in phased batches over several months in 2009. The commercials are a part of the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles Archives found at the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library."

Joe Bob says "check it out".

link

Film Screening Tonight: Tuesday, March 16 at 7pm - Wechsler Theater

Bottled Water: A Big Business with Big Problems
(see AU master calendar entry)

By Chris O'Brien, AU’s Director of Sustainability, Paul Wapner, Associate Professor, and Jennifer Jones, President of Eco-Sense

View the documentary Tapped and get a behind-the-scenes look at the bottled water industry and its vast array of negative consequences, from production of the plastic bottles to the enormous trash piles in the ocean where many end up. Chris O'Brien, Paul Wapner and Jennifer Jones discuss issues raised in the film and AU's efforts to decrease bottled water use on campus.

3rd Floor, Mary Graydon Center, American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016-8017

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

No Reservations or Tickets Required

Disneyland Dream: Classic home movie now on DVD

54 years ago Robbins Barstow made Disneyland Dream about his family's trip to Disneyland after winning a nationwide contest sponsored by Scotch tape. He now makes it available on DVD.

From Boing Boing-
"This is the most delightful historical Disneyland movie I've seen -- including the old TV shows where Walt tours the park. Young Master Barstow was a great film-maker (there's a reason that the Library of Congress added this to the National Film Registry)."

Of course, it has been viewable from the ALADIN catalog for several years. link.

Watch episodes of NOW, now.

"Hosted by veteran journalist David Brancaccio, NOW on PBS goes beyond the noisy churn of the news cycle to probe the most important issues facing democracy and give viewers the context to explore their relationship with the larger world." --PBS website.

First started by Bill Moyers back in 2002, this news program gave issues more of a chance to breathe due to its hour length. A couple years ago, PBS cut the program back to a half hour, but the format focuses in on a current issue that most media outlets designate a soundbyte to.

PBS is currently offering streaming episodes of the show here.

As it turns out, Bill Moyer's Journal is also offering streaming video of his program, which can be found here.