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The Rose Playhouse Film PF

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An independent documentary film is underway to capture the entire Rose U.S.A. project from research through design, construction and reality. Academy Award nominee John Karol is producing the planned 90 minute film with theatrical, television and educational distribution in mind. Background on his production facility, Apertura, can be found at www.apertura.org. To learn more about The Rose Playhouse Film (working title), and how you can become involved, contact:. John Karol, Producer/Filmmaker.

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John Karol, Producer

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John Karol is a graduate of Deerfield Academy, Williams College (where he majored in chemistry and won the Arthur B. Graves Essay Prize in Art), and the Yale Law School (where he did concurrent graduate work in organic chemistry). Following law school, he was associated for two years with the New York City law firm of Lord, Day and Lord. Leaving government service at the end of the Hoff administration in 1969, he established his production firm,. Producing films both independently and commercially. I...

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Live on Film

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Historians, Economists and Others Appearing in the Film. Prof Wesley M. Bagby (Advisor). West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia). End of WWI and The Road to Normalcy. Prof Warren I. Cohen. University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD). Foreign policy in the 1920's; Empire Without Tears. Plymouth Notch, Vermont). Recollections of the President's son. The Coolidge prosperity; business and ethics. New York, New York). Prof Burton W. Folsom, Jr. (Advisor). Prof John Kenneth Galbraith.

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Advance Praise

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Things of the Spirit. 151; chief film critic for the New York Post, cohost of PBS's Sneak Previews, syndicated columnist, and author of books on media and society. An absorbingly interesting and much needed revaluation of a much underrated president. 151; writer and biographer of Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. Extraordinary film and history making. Calvin Coolidge is probably one of the most misunderstood figures in the history of American politics. Things of the Spirit". Michael S. Dukakis.

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Quotable Coolidge

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Calvin Coolidge wrote his own speeches. A master at delegating duties, he was not one to delegate beliefs. These quotations are drawn from the story edit of "Things of the Spirit,". A three-hour biographical film on Coolidge. Some are spoken by Coolidge in archival films and recordings. Others are quoted by historians or heard in narration. This selection affords a glimpse of the "soul" of "Things of the Spirit.". We welcome your interest and support in bringing "Things of the Spirit". I want the people ...

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Content & Structure

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Origins, Education, Personal Character and Presidential Style. Deaths of Mother, Sister, Son and Father. The Boston Police Strike. Choosing Not To Run. Tax Cuts, Prosperity, and (later) The Crash and Depression. Allied War Debts and German Reparations; Mexico, Nicaragua,China and The Soviet Union; Economic and Cultural Expansion. Materialism, Mass Culture, The Modern Consumer Society, Welfare Capitalism and The Associative State. Normalcy, The Harding Presidency and The Harding Scandals. Our Man in Havana.

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Advance Praise

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Things of the Spirit. 151; chief film critic for the New York Post, cohost of PBS's Sneak Previews, syndicated columnist, and author of books on media and society. An absorbingly interesting and much needed revaluation of a much underrated president. 151; writer and biographer of Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. 147;Things of the Spirit”. John E. Hilboldt. 151; Director, Lectures and Seminars at The Heritage Foundation. But it also captures an almost wistful Coolidge who had the courage and decency...

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Background

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Persistence Plus Productions is nearing completion of a three-hour biographical film on Calvin Coolidge, and the issues facing the nation during the 1920's - a period of peace, prosperity and unprecedented national growth. As its title suggests, Things of the Spirit. Takes a deeper than usual look at the personal and political life of our thirtieth President. We already have completed the research, preproduction, production and story edit. Among other things, Things of the Spirit:. Inspires viewers to gi...

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Revisioning History

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The American Presidency on Film:. Westlake Village, California · November 10-12, 2000. Let me say at the beginning that I am a filmmaker – not a film theorist. It is only as I finish a film that I am tempted to read the likes of Bill Nichols, Jane Gaines, Robert Rosenstone, Michel Chion, Dai Vaughan and Walter Murch to learn what it is I may have produced. The last two – Vaughan and Murch. The biographical film I am completing on the personal and political life of Calvin Coolidge, is a case in point.