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To celebrate the Hudson River Valley's Quadricentennial, the City of Newburgh's Tercentenary, and Mount Saint Mary College's 50th Anniversary, the Newburgh Beacon Bay 2009 Committee is partnering with Mount Saint Mary College and community organizations to produce a $100,000 60-minute documentary telling the story of the uniquely significant local heritage in 10 episodes.
"Imagine a depiction of Susan B. Anthony thanking her followers at the Palatine Hotel as she turned the gavel of the women’s suffrage movement over to the next generation. Imagine Thomas Edison directing his engineers as they built the early electric generating station he designed on Montgomery Street and on the first electrification of a church up at Calvary Presbyterian on Grand Street. Imagine Asher B. Durand or Thomas Benjamin Pope sitting with an easel along the Quassaick Creek painting the scene looking toward Storm King Mountain. Imagine Henry Ward Beecher advocating the principles of abolition at the old Union Church on First Street while Harriet Jacobs penned Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl down the road in Cornwall." (Excerpted from City Historian Mary McTamaney's remarks on October 28, 2008)
Telling that story accurately will require thorough research of the subject, collaborating and debating with an assortment of scholarly advisors, composing off-screen narration, gathering and selecting of background readings, expert commentaries, and images. It will also require images and materials from numerous private collections, professional writing, talent, production, equipment, direction, and project management.
Essential to the project is a comprehensive business plan that encompasses the financial, legal, and logistical aspects of such an undertaking. Community volunteers with expertise, Mount Saint Mary College film students, and Western Connecticut State University film students will be participating in the project.
Working title "Newburgh Beacon Bay: a 400 Year Heritage"
Outline
- Introduction
- Maritime: Shipping, Sailing, Whaling, Fishing, Shipping, etc.
- Immigrants & Neighborhoods
- Transportation: Boon & Impact Building
- Arts & Landscape Architecture
- Intellectual Life: Publications, Lyceums, Libraries, Education
- Industry & Economy Innovators & Entrepreneurs
- Sport & Past-times
- Houses of Worship: Diversity & Transformation
- Social Organizations
For more information:
Betsy McKean, Co-Chair Newburgh Beacon Bay 2009 & Co-Producer records@cityofnewburgh-ny.gov (845) 742-8406 work cellphone
Mary McTamaney, Co-Chair Newburgh Beacon Bay 2009 & Co-Producer history@cityofnewburgh-ny.gov (845) 569-8090
Dr. J. C. Barone, Producer & Director
info@baronemedia.com (845) 430-6504
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Film Kickoff - Sept 08
Photos from the film project kickoff Oct. 28, 2008:
Mayors Steve Gold (Beacon) and Nick Valentine (Newburgh)
Producer-Director J.C. Barone
Potential project team members: actor/narrator Ron Palillo, script writer Carol Dorn, and music composer John Scrader.
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