Friday’s video break goes nostalgic with a 1976 Schoolhouse Rock musical segment on woman suffrage with lyrics performed by Essra Mohawk, who performed with the Mothers of Invention and the Jerry Garcia Band. Rock on!
It’s women’s history month, but boy, good videos on the topic are rare. Is opportunity knocking?
This 38:00 freshly produced documentary follows the transformation of an historic clothing factory in Lebanon, NH into an art center. Directed by Ken Turino of Historic New England and produced in collaboration with AVA Gallery and Community Access Television of Upper Valley, it features interviews, oral histories, and historic images.
This video by Thirteen introduces Weeksville, an African American community founded in the 19th century in Brooklyn. Today, it is an historic site that interprets the history, re-discovery, and preservation of this special neighborhood as a “multidimensional museum”.
This 2:24 excerpt from a self-guided multimedia tour of the landscape integrates the history of the people who lived and worked at Drayton Hall, an early 18th century plantation in South Carolina. This multimedia tour was produced in collaboration with the History Channel.
Soundworks documents the creation of “authentic sound” for Steven Spielberg’s film, Lincoln. The sound designer discusses his efforts to collect sounds at historic sites and in museum collections, such as the clocks and doors at the White House and a pocket watch at the Kentucky Historical Society.
This short feature by BET includes an interview with director Lonnie Bunch, highlights of artifacts, and a computer-generated fly-through of the new Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture. In honor of African American history month, I’ll be sharing other related videos on Fridays.
For all you architecture and preservation buffs, a short fun video for Friday on The ABC of Architects from fedelpeye on Vimeo. How many do you recognize? Thanks to Conny Graft for alerting me to this new video.
Engaging Places 