10.01.2001

Highlights of Georgia's Filmed History

       In conjunction with the University of Georgia Libraries' celebration of Archives Week, the Walter J. Brown Media Archives is proud to present a special screening:
"The Highlights of Georgia's Filmed History"

Please join us in Main Library room B-2
on Tuesday, October 9th at 7:00 p.m.
The screening will last approximately 90 minutes.

The program will include:

- Franklin Delanor Roosevelt receiving an honorary degree from the University of Georgia

- Scenes from the 1965 Mrs. Georgia Pageant

- An accidentally hilarious 1971 interview with James Brown, conducted by a reporter from Savannah's WJCL-TV

- Comments by Dean William Tate on the topic of school integration

- Folk music

- Scenes from south Georgia farms as they were in the thirties and forties

- And much more!

Featured collections:

- The Peabody Awards Collection

- The WSB Newsfilm Collection

- The Georgia Folklore Collection

- The Andrew Avery Film Collection

- The Atlanta Gas Light Company Collection


Programs screened by Media Archives are also available for viewing in the University of Georgia Libraries Media Department.
For more information, contact the University of Georgia Libraries Media Department at 542-7360
or Mary Miller, mlmiller@uga.edu

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