Fifties became a special effects Makeup Artist and designed the costume for the iconic creature from the black lagoon horror film. Up next on American History tv, author and filmmaker Mallory Omeara discusses her book, the lady from the black lagoon. Hollywood monstrous and the lost legacy of milicent patrick. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this event and provided the video. I wrote a book called the lady from the black lagoon hollywood monsters and the lost legacy of Millicent Patrick. But who the heck is Millicent Patrick . She is the forrest gump of the 1950s. She most noticeably designed the creature from the black lagoon, the pantheon of monsters. It was the last one to be included. Everyone has their own pantheon, you can come fight me later. [laughter] in my opinion, creature was the last one. She did so much more. She was one of disneys first female animators, she was an actress, she was an illustrator. Everything about Millicent Patrick was larger than life. It has been
The two of them had known each other for quite some time. During world war i, Franken Roosevelt was the assistant secretary of the navy under woodrow wilson. Do you want to talk about what hoover did during world war i . Sure. Herbert hoover was the head of the u. S. Food administration. It had to essentially provide food to the soldiers going to europe and hoover was able to provide the necessary food by getting americans to voluntarily reduce consumption by 15 . He did this by appealing to american housewives to sign pledge cards where they would hooverize, which meant every day of the week, you gave up a certain essential component. Meat, wheat, sugar, fat. You had meatless mondays and wheatless wednesdays. Hoover was able to use that as a stopgap for growing the food steps foodstuffs were required. Fdr was very impressed with the work hoover had done. Franklin roosevelt was trying to convince hoover to become a democrat. There was some sense of maybe we can get him as part of our p
The pantheon of monsters. It was the last one to be included. Everyone has their own pantheon, you can come fight me later. [laughter] in my opinion, creature was the last one. She was one of disneys first female animators, she was an actress, she was an illustrator. Everything about Millicent Patrick was larger than life. It has been the greatest honor of my life so far to tell her story. If you read the book, you know there are pictures in there because millicent lived a very visual, cinematic life. I have a treat for all of you. Ive got some photos that have never been seen before. I have hundreds of them i was not allowed by my publisher to put in because we could not fit 700 different photos in the book. So i would like to take you through while telling you about millicent and why she is a trailblazing artist and one of the most important women we have ever had in the film industry. I would like to take you through her life a little bit with some awesome photos. Can room or i ca h
Chat box is a reminder that when we come together to learn with reason, we can indeed appeal to the better angels and Grow Together in wisdom. Im so grateful to all of you for having spread so much historical and constitutional light. On behalf of the National Constitution center, youthank y so much for a wonderful discussion. See you on june 30th for the battle of the constitution and the future of policing. Thanks to all. Have a good night. Thank you so much. Youre watching American History tv. Every weekend on cspan3, explore our nations past. Cspan3, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Were featuring American History tv programs as a preview of whats available every weekend on cspan3. Tonight a look at programs from the Kansas City Public Library in kansas city, missouri. We begin with a talk about the life of Millicent Patrick. Mali omeara will discuss her book life of hollywood artist Millicent P
College is going to have more instances if we keep it where the winner of the popular vote loses the presidency. It means that 30 of americans do not reflect the diversity will elect 70 of 100 senators. We know that natural residential patterns as well as in the way in which we do districts in the Supreme Court, that basically brushed aside doing anything about partisan gerrymandering will distort the house even for them. What voters want wont be reflected there. The courts are going to take us further and further away from popular will whatever it is with those elections. We are going to have some work to do to prevent a real crisis and legitimacy in the system that goes beyond some of these issues that we have talked about and even transcends some of these deeper divisions along racial and ethnic and regional lines. Thank you very much for that and for sobering us in such a powerful way. Ed, the last word is to you. The era of American Civil War in emancipation is far worse and we ca