Jan. 20, 08

Hi from Yazz (David) Allen '66 (Email me at YazzAllen@Yahoo.Com):

There is definitely a physical difference in students who attended Antioch College in the 1960's and were filmed in the 1967 produced ANTIOCH ADVENTURE PART ONE movie, and students who attended

Antioch College in the late 1980's who were filmed in in 1988 in the ANTIOCH ADVENTURE PART TWO. 80's Antiochians are heavier in overall body build and definitely more expensively dressed. Dental work 1980's Antiochians display in the many "mouth closeups" in ANTIOCH ADVENTURE PART TWO (1988) is definitely better than is true of 60's Antiochians.

I've screened these two movies a lot since last June 2007 when I took it upon myself to supply anyone who asked with copies (I ask a $10 donation to help cover costs, but sent many free copies to people who can't afford that, which, being an impoverished performing artist Antiochian out of Antioch 40+ years and STILL poor, I well understand and sympathize with).

Just watched (screened) both ANTIOCH ADVENTURE (1967 and 1988) movies yet again today (also the Antioch College official promo movie made in 1989, an excellent portrait of Antioch during the 80's period).

I made a copy for an Antioch grad physician now living in Hawaii (class of 1970, he probably treats a lot of Hawaii people for sunburn, tropical diseases, and for upset stomachs after eating too much Hawaiian party food!), and, as often happens, ended up watching all three Antioch movies (the two ADVENTURE movies and the promo video) while the copying process took place.

Mom Dick (Miriam Dickenson) opens the ANTIOCH ADVENTURE PART ONE (1967) movie, and that always grabs me....she was my Dean when I entered Antioch in 1962, and the 1967 "Mom Dick as Leo The Lion" which starts out Marc Stone's great PART ONE movie shows here exactly as I remember her.

I've probably watched all three movies more than 100 times, and I see new things each time I watch them. This time I paid attention to body types and dental work differences shown in Antioch students in these movies.

Also clothes they wore....not just styles, but the expense levels of the clothes. 80's kids seem richer as reflected in clothes and dental work, and overall appearance of "beatiful people" types as compared with the 1967 movie. The "Bingle Bangers" sequence in both movies is sort of a controlled experiment to pay attention to.

The differences in the two sets of kids (one from 1967, one from 1988 are interesting and telling....the 1988 movie included a sheep [a live sheep!] not seen in the 1967 movie, among other differences of note).

The two leading male actors of 1967 respectively, John Draper for 1967 and Steve Oliver for 1988 tell the teeth/ dental work tale! John has bunched up teeth in closeups, otherwise drop-dead handsome as his was and no doubt still is. Steve Oliver has dental dream come true teeth, perfect in every way!

I won't comment in any details I noticed about Antioch girls since that gets touchy, but I did notice the 60's Antioch girls look...well.......much skinnier and less shapely than the 80's Antioch girls.

I'm a movie actor, and I pay attention to such things. Hope no-one is offended. Anyway, the girls in the two movies are quite different. These movie are important and worth seeing often.

The Antioch Book Store sells (or used to sell) both ANTIOCH ADVENTURE movies (1967 and 1988) by mail order, and alumni should get copies while it's still possible (who knows how the present psychodrama battle between the AU BOT and the AC3 Good Guys In Shining Armor And White Horses Trying To Save Antioch will come out....the bad guys could STILL win and the bookstore will close down along with the rest of Antioch College!).

Each of the two Antioch Adventure movies lasts about 45 minutes and the Antioch promo video from 1989 (not for sale at the Antioch bookstore as far as I know....collector's item!) lasts about 30 minutes.

THAT is a total of 120 minutes of filmed and videoed imagery and commentary about Antioch College in Ohio...........more than 175,000 separate still frames all run together as all movies/ videos are at 24 frames per second, but.......each of the 175,000 frames tells it's own story! You gotta re-screen these movies OFTEN to get ll the stories or even start to. One final comment. In my opinion (I'm a movie historian, college professor...part time adjunct professor.....lots of glory and praise but almost no money in paychecks I get for what I do............. teaching movie history in Baltimore MD USA colleges....ahem!), the ANTIOCH ADVENTURE PART TWO (1988) is the BETTER of the two movies, even though Marc Stone's groundbreaking PART ONE movie is more famous, and, of course, very important in its own way.

The acting, dancing, visual images, sound track, music (WAGNER's RIDE OF THE VALKEYRIES is included) of THE ANTIOCH ADVENTURE PART TWO (1988) are all better, smoother, than is the case of PART ONE.

PART TWO includes reprise performances by PART ONE lead actors Jessica Lipnack and John Draper who play parents of the two lead actors of the 1988 movie. Interesting to see what happens visually to Antiochians "as time goes by."

Lipnack plays the Yenta Jewish scolding mother of the female lead of the 1988 movie, and Draper plays the show biz impressario mogul in charge of 80's Michael Jackson superconcerts in the 1988 movie. Both 60's actors turn in great performances in the 1980's movie. Both are seen as parents the poor 80's Antiochian lead actors have to 'put up with."

Both 80's leads do a lot of "eye rolling" and sighing as parents from the 60's ignore them while lecturing them.

Just like my parents when I was at Antioch!

Best,

Yazz (David) Allen '66
(Note: I'm different than Yazz Atlas '97 who operates the WWW.AntiRecord.Org website...he's younger and probably richer).