Mint discusses his book screen reality how filmmakers reimagined america which explores the history of nonfiction films to 24 century reality tv. The Burbank Public Library hosted this event and the video provided by the burbank channel. I just wanted to say thank you for coming. Im with the Library Staff and this program is part of a series of programs that the library prisons from time to time on topics related to the film industry. Sometimes we take a look behind the scenes on films in eighth genre are made or explore how a particular movie is made we did this recently by the way with queens of ammunition and we are looking at the film china town just a few weeks ago presenting documentary film making in the spring we hope to present a program on the creation of music scores for film by taking a close look at the jury career of max stein are. Perhaps hollywoods most influential composer. It has been noted that we are presently in a golden age of documentary filmmaking with more docu
President is a sick man which accounts the surgery be performed on a yacht and present disappearing for five days. Hi, im david cowan, president of the museum of American Finance. Welcome back to our lunch and learn series. welcome to the university of central oklahoma and professor arnold. Thank you for coming. Please join us again, everyone, next week on the 26th were going to continue the lunch and learn series. The director of the roth child archive will be here, melanie. They should be really fascinating. This is an historic banking house, again, a week from this thursday. And then on the 24th, this is tuesday upcoming, well be screening the rediscovering alexander hamilton. This is the pbs documentary recently released, and all your questions about the movie can be answered because the producer director, michael pack, will be in the house. Now, turning our attention to today and matthew algeo, and the president is a sick man. This is matthews third book. His second, which traced
Ditches that came from it and furnished water to the growing community. As the city grew, the railroad came in the 1870s and the population exploded, gravity driven Water Systems were not working. They couldnt get water to run over a hill, so a new water system was established with artesian wells. Which, when drilled into the ground and when lowered into the ground, they lowered the water table. So the San Antonio River was frequently going dry. At that point, in 1914, the city created a park through downtown along what was to be the riverwalk. A park and plantings, not too much else. Which was here for about 25 years, until with the wpa, a project was initiated to develop the riverwalk. An architect by the name of robert husband, came up with a design that would give a fanciful appearance to the area. It would include shops and boats and colorful walkways that would dress up the rivers. Which did all right, except that nobody came down to the riverwalk. It became dangerous. It was not
Why did you write this book . That it had never been really told before between the covers of a book. I mean its been told orally and in conversations, but so in 2005, i went to two places. I went to the Eisenhower Library, did a lot of research there in the st. Abilene, kansas. And i went to the Pritzker Military library in chicago which is probably the best military library in the country. There may be one better, but it is extra ordinary and started working on this book, i started developing it. And i wrote four other books in between including words from the white house. Those were to sort of to keep bread on the table so to speak. I just became haunted by this story and trying to get deeper and deeper into it and discover who the people were, who really saved the country. For me it was a revelatory moment because id go to libraries and places and book sales and trying to look up some of the things i write about in this book like the louisiana maneuvers for example and found almost
How this transformation occurred and the impact it had on future wars. Heritage heritage frederick provided the video. Book . Did you read this write this book . Paul it had never been told before between the covers of a book. Conversations, but in 2005 i went to the Eisenhower Library and did a lot of thearch there and i went to military library in chicago which is probably the best military library in the country. There may be one better, but it is extra ordinary and i started working on this book. I started developing it. I wrote for other books in between. Those were sort of to keep bread on the table so to speak. I just became haunted by the story and tried to get deeper and deeper into it and discover who the people were, who saved the country. For me it was a revelatory go to libraries and places and book sales and try to look up some of the things i write about in this for like the maneuvers example and found almost nothing. I had to really dig and go through a lot of archives