Marsha Gordon and Skip Elsheimer
Recorded
January 12, 2017
40:00 minutes
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Id:
ddb002227
Description
Marsha Gordon (45) talks to her friend, Skip Elsheimer (50), about his collection of more than 25,000 films. Skip describes the process of acquiring old educational films over the years. They discuss the importance of preserving home movies.Subject Log / Time Code
Skip (S) talks about collecting "old educational films." He has more than 25,000 in a house that he owns.
S remembers going to the library at North Carolina State and looking at old trade journals.
S describes some of the old films he watched in a batch of 500 that he acquired in the 1990s.
Marsha (M) talks about moving to Raleigh, NC about 15 years ago. "I started getting to know you."
M talks about watching films in school and working with her school's A/V Club.
S talks about a film called "The Story." "It's this little kid telling a bedtime story to his sisters." S found out that the kid was Matt Groening, the creator of "The Simpsons."
M and S talk about doing a program for Black History Month.
M talks about S's curation of shows. S also put out DVDs of his shows for students at NC State.
S talks about the importance of preserving home movies. M describes people's reactions to seeing old home movies.
S remembers a guy in Raleigh who made a music video with a wooden Hitler in a casket.
Participants
- Marsha Gordon
- Skip Elsheimer