THE WORKING LIFE: The 7th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium,
July 20-22, 2006
Northeast Historic Film, 85 Main Street, Bucksport, Maine
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Jennifer Abbott, filmmaker and co-director of The Corporation
Northeast Historic Film invites you to be a part of a symposium dedicated to
the topic of work and amateur film. The symposium is open to anyone interested
in the relationship between the moving image and representations of work.
Students, teachers, researchers, museum, library and archives professionals,
programmers, amateur film and video creators, and labor and union specialists may
find the symposium of particular interest.
An abbreviated schedule follows. To register and for a complete schedule
please go to http://www.oldfilm.org/nhfWeb/ed/06Symp/Symposium2006.htm
Thursday July 20, 2006
7:00 PM Cast and Crew as Family, Family as Cast and Crew: Henry Koster's Home
Movies, presented by Melissa Dollman, Moving Image Archive Studies, UCLA
7:30 PM An Interview with Simone Weil, presented by the filmmaker Julia
Haslett, Line Street Productions, New York, NY
Friday July 21, 2006
9:30-10:30 AM The Corporate Video: Its Purpose and Meaning, presented by
Sian Evans, filmmaker, Maine and New York City
10:45-11:45 AM Keynote address, Jennifer Abbott, filmmaker and co-director
of The Corporation, British Columbia
1:15-2:15 PM With These Hands: The ILGWU, Film, and Labor History in the
Cold War presented by Nathan Godfried, Department of History, University of
Maine
2:15-3:15 PM Behind the Scenes with Women Factory Workers, presented by
Patricia Raub and Robert Goff, American Studies, Providence College
3:30-4:00 PM What a Little Movie Can Do: The Events Surrounding the Making
of A Day at the Factory, presented by Bob Brodsky, filmmaker and 8mm
filmmaster, Rowley, MA
4:00-4:30 PM The Abbakadabba Coopno: A Real Life Drama of Christian Farm
Work, presented by Robbins Barstow, filmmaker and retired educator, Wethersfield,
Connecticut
6:30-10 PM SCREENING: The Corporation, introduction and Q&A with filmmaker
Jennifer Abbott
Saturday July 22, 2006
9:00-10:00 AM The Transport Workers Union and its Early Use of Television
as a Tool for Persuasion, presented by Erika Gottfried, Robert Wagner Labor
Archives/Tamiment Library, New York University
10:00-10:30 AM The Negotiation of White Working Class Identity and Film
Going (1895-1914) presented by Cara Caddoo, Integrated Media Arts, City University
of New York
10:45-11:45 AM The Cry of the Children and the 1912 American Woolen Strike,
Lawrence, Massachusetts, presented by Ardis Cameron, American and New England
Studies, University of Southern Maine
1:00-2:00 PM Amateur Cinema and the Re-making of a 'Local' Heritage:
Changing Images of the Fishing Industry in Scotland, presented by , Department of
Theatre, Film and Television, University of Glasgow, Scotland
2:00-3:00 PM The Blackhill Campaign and the British Documentary Tradition,
presented by Leo Enticknap, Northern Region Film & Television Archive,
University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK
3:15-4:15 PM Free Farm Movies in the 1920s-1930s: International Harvester,
the American Farm Bureau and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, presented by
Greg Waller, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University
4:15-4:45 PM The Nature of Work and the Construction of Race in the Rural
South, presented by Ruta Abolins, Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody
Awards Collection, University of Georgia
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