My Name is Durham - ?
Anyone ever heard of or seen the promotional film "My Name is Durham"? I found a reference to it coming to Durham from New York in 1949, to be shown in local theaters:
The minimum I can glean from google is that it evidently consists of three 16 mm color films for North Carolina's Department of Conservation and Development.
Shows downtown and Duke campus, but is mostly a pitch for the Red Feather Community Chest - Assoc of the Blind, Girl Scouts, Family Service, John Avery Boys Club, Boy Scouts, YWCA, Durham Nursery School, YMCA, Wright Refuge, Salvation Army, etc.
I can't seem to find it in UNC, Duke, County, or State libraries.
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With that kind of pedigree I don't have high hopes for the film, but I bet it has lots of cool period footage.
I hope it will be better than "Durham: A Self Portrait", which I always thought was too heavy-handed with the Rodney King style platitudes. I remember when it was released, the former mayor of Durham objected to the characterisation of the black community as being opposed to the demolition of Hayti. (The reality was very different, but the film perpetuates the victimhood stereotypes.)
Gary:
Any chance you've come across someone who DOES know the whereabouts of Durham's Hero? Is the photograph in Joel Kostyu's book all we really have?
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Source: News & Observer, The (Raleigh, NC), Feb 07, 2009
Jime Wise: Laughs begin when Raleigh steals scene
... Durham's even got an appreciable resume where moving pictures are concerned.
According to those wonderful folks at the Convention & Visitors Bureau we've appeared in 26 (or 25, or 19, depending on where you look) major motion pictures -- "Billy Bathgate" with Dustin Hoffman, "The Handmaid's Tale" with Robert Duvall, "Bull Durham" with Kevin Costner, of which you may have heard.
The resume actually goes back at least as far as February of 1925, when a two-reeler called "Durham's Hero" was shot along the Bull City's streets with Durham's own Elizabeth Card as the ingenue and Hollywood's own Don Newland directing.
Filming began Feb. 16 and the picture opened Feb. 24 before a packed and enthusiastic house at the old Paris Theatre.
(No copies of the film "Durham's Hero," unfortunately, have survived.) ...
It's not showing up in a nationwide search of library archives on WorldCat, either.
SOSNC's Corporations Division shows a NC Red Feather organization in 1951, which has changed names a few times to become North Carolina's United Way. Is this the same group, and is it possible they archive their promotional footage?
Wonder which movie these two pics were from in 1930?
http://www.durhamcountylibrary.org/ncc/photo_archives/o/of016.php
http://www.durhamcountylibrary.org/ncc/photo_archives/o/of017.php
Sorry. The full pats weren't included.
http://www.durhamcountylibrary.org/ncc/photo_archives/o/of016.php
http://www.durhamcountylibrary.org/ncc/photo_archives/o/of017.php
files OF16 and OF17
at durham county library photo archives
Loretta
That's "Durham's Hero" - to which Andy Edmonds referred. Another film I (we)'d like to find.
GK
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