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Editor’s Note: Digital color photo of the movie posters can be emailed upon request. For information call (516) 299-2334.
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| C.W. Post to Exhibit World War II
Movie Posters Collection to highlight historical contributions of the movie industry |
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| The Library at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in
Brookville will showcase its collection of World War II movie posters
from Sept. 23 to Oct. 20. The exhibit will appear in the B. Davis
Schwartz Memorial Library’s Hutchins Gallery, in its lobby area,
and on its top floor adjacent to the Special Collections Department,
as well as two samples in the campus’s Hillwood Art Museum. "These are original movie posters that hung in the movie theaters," says exhibit organizer and special collections librarian Conrad Schoeffling. "I decided to focus the exhibit on movies produced during the war because I wanted to demonstrate the intensity of the moment that was captured uniquely in movie history." In addition to the exhibit, which will feature approximately 50 posters, Schoeffling has arranged to show many of the films. Visitors will be able to view them in the Library lobby, as a complement to the exhibit. The films range from such vibrant depictions of war as Bataan, The Moon is Down, and A Walk in the Sun to tingling spy dramas The Conspirators and Man Hunt; from movies full of comic relief, Buck Privates and the Miracle of Morgan’s Creek to the varied dramas of those on the home front, Sunday Dinner for a Soldier and Tomorrow the World; and of course those up-beat "let’s entertain the troops" musicals This is the Army and Follow the Boys. Three lectures will highlight the nearly month-long exhibit. John Koshel, C.W. Post professor of film, will speak on Thursday, Sept. 26, on "World War II and the Movies: Revealing the American Social Spectrum." A showing of the movie Bataan will follow the talk. Arlene Garbarini, a professor in the English Department at St. John’s University, will speak on Thursday, Oct. 3 about "Battle Pieces: How Poets Responded to the War." Arthur Coleman, a professor in the C.W. Post English Department, will speak on Thursday, Oct. 10 about "World War II: Memories of Combat Lived and Their Movie Recreations." All lectures begin at 12:30 p.m. and take place in the Hutchins Gallery. Schoeffling began planning the exhibit after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. He felt that the overriding message of World War II movies – the triumph of good over evil – was especially appropriate. "The message of these movies is one of hope – we won before and we can win again," says Schoeffling. "There is that connection between fighting evil during World War II and fighting it today. I’m hoping that people who view the exhibit will get a feeling of hope through victory over evil." Admission is free to the exhibit and lectures. The public is invited to attend. For more information, call the Special Collections Department at (516) 299-2880. |
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| Phone: 516-299-2333 | email pr@cwpost.liu.edu |
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