Over the weekend, a CBS News blogger covering the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations happened on someone singing “The Banks are Made of Marble,” a tune Pete Seeger and The Weavers covered. The banks are made of marble With a guard at every door And the vaults are stuffed with silver…
Finished… but not finished
A quick update. We finished 1913 Massacre in mid-July, but of course… we aren’t finished. The finished film runs 65 minutes. We are now submitting to festivals, making plans to tour with the film, bringing it to schools and towns, and working on two upcoming centenaries: Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday…
New Grant from the National Park Service
We are newly encouraged in our (slow, but methodical, and steady) race to the finish line by a new grant from the Keweenaw National Historical Park and the National Park Service. The grant will help cover fine cut editing. Don’t forget: you can help us get along with a donation…
Is Woody’s song “Depressing”?
Andrew Sullivan today is soliciting nominations for Depressing Christmas Songs, and — no surprise — somebody nominated Woody Guthrie’s 1913 Massacre. We beg to differ. In the course of working on this film, we’ve discovered that while “1913 Massacre” tells a tragic Christmas story, it’s also a song that continues…
Ars Longa and all that…
We’ve heard through the grapevine that some people in Calumet are surprised to learn that we’re still working on the film. What can we say? Ars longa vita brevis and all that. After a few false starts and detours — to be expected in a project like ours, with 300…
A Labor Day Greeting
For Labor Day, we put together a page for all our hardworking friends. Check it out at this link. And don’t forget to click the big button to show your support. Please give if you can. Labor Day 07 kicks off round 1 of our micro-financing campaign. To participate, simply…
Michigan’s Economy, Then and Now
Having finished a rough cut of Act 1, we are embarking on our most ambitious fundraising plan to date, so that we can raise enough to edit the whole film in the next 12 months or so. In the meantime, the Calumet story continues to resonate, in ways we never…
Another Christmas…
Editing and fundraising. With a cut of Act One well underway, we continue to raise funds, search for new grants, and promote the film at every opportunity. Many thanks to John Beck and colleagues for inviting us to talk about and show some of the evolving film at Michigan State…
300 hours later…
Now that we’ve completed principal photography and started editing the 300 odd hours of material we’ve gathered, it’s all about fundraising and fundraising and more fundraising. We shot the film on a shoestring budget; but now it’s time to tell the story, and we’re doing everything we can to raise…
Thanks to the Puffin Foundation
This month, a word of thanks to the Puffin Foundation for its continued support of 1913 Massacre, and to the labor organizations that have made contributions to our post-production fundraising efforts.