"The Berkeley documentary showed highlights of 60's days at Berkeley, and featured clips from SF,CA (Bay area) TV news coverage archives. Also still photos from newspaper and magazine coverage of the events (People's Park, Mario Savio and the FSM, startup of the Black Panthers, Ronald Reagan "Running Against Berkeley" during his 1966 CA governor campaign, etc.).
Dayton OH and Columbus OH (and probably Cincinnati OH) TV stations likely still have a ton of achival footage of Memorable Times At Antioch from the 60's/70's quite useable for a terrific documentary about Antioch. Newspaper and magazine archives also likely have many photos of highlight events from that period when Antioch was national front-page news frequently. The NY Times Index for articles about the Strike of 73 runs several columns identifying dozens of NY Times news articles and feature articles about Antioch and Strike, many w/photos.
Many key players (students, faculty, administrators, townies, etc.) from the Antioch 60's/70's period are still around and available, likely, to contribute interviews and sound bites for a splendid documentary about Antioch. The BERKELEY IN THE 60'S (1990) documentary included interviews with key Berkeley students 20/25 years later. Yellow Springs OH alone would be an easy source of oldster Antiochians remembering good times during events such as The Strike Of 73, The Taking of President James Dixon Hostage In The Caf (until he had serious heart palpatations and was let go), and the Gegner's Barbershop Integration efforts of the 60's.
This would be a terrific film project, would sell nationally (because it would be very entertaining), and would be great publicity for Antioch (remember the Erryl Flynn maxim?...."I don't care what the papers say about me, as long as they spell my name right?"). Antioch would end up on the map of superstar schools again, applications would deluge the admissions office, pleading for the school to take double 800 SAT score applicants at the current (approximately) $40,000/year sticker price Antioch charges.
It would work! The greatest movie about Antioch since THE ANTIOCH ADVENTURE (1967, which is also part of the 60's era at Antioch, and could be covered in documentary movie.
First Run Features of NYC (212/243-0600) would likely distribute it (they made a mint from the Berkeley documentary both in movie houses and in video stores, including $3.50 of my movie from a Baltimore video rental store). They might even provide up-front money for the movie.
Let's do it!
Recent First Run Features hit left-wing documentaries include THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER (2002) and POWER AND TERROR: Noam Chomsky In Our Times (2003). Wonderful stuff.
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