the film school was part of the theater complex. google leacock and marshall. leacock helped to develop the first portable 16mm sync sound equipment and made many of the first and classic verite docs. He founded the MIT film dep’t. Marshall founded the Center for Documentary Anthropology (now Documentary Educational Resources) and was the first to make ethnographic films that presented indigenous societies as being made up of people with individual personalities just like us, rather than as a bunch of natives dancing around a fire or making baskets. His films are still staples of Anthro 101.
hoo boy…what memories. I taught for a while at the Orson Welles Film School…must have been around 1971. I remember Wayne Wadhams (quack)(now deceased)used to call it the “Awesome Smells”. Grat things did happen there though. Ricky Leacock and John Marshall would come and talk to my classes.
the film school was part of the theater complex. google leacock and marshall. leacock helped to develop the first portable 16mm sync sound equipment and made many of the first and classic verite docs. He founded the MIT film dep’t. Marshall founded the Center for Documentary Anthropology (now Documentary Educational Resources) and was the first to make ethnographic films that presented indigenous societies as being made up of people with individual personalities just like us, rather than as a bunch of natives dancing around a fire or making baskets. His films are still staples of Anthro 101.
hoo boy…what memories. I taught for a while at the Orson Welles Film School…must have been around 1971. I remember Wayne Wadhams (quack)(now deceased)used to call it the “Awesome Smells”. Grat things did happen there though. Ricky Leacock and John Marshall would come and talk to my classes.