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Friends of James Blue... the University of Oregon James Blue webpage is undergoing a significant overhaul under the guidance of Richard Herskowitz. Looking great! More new content coming. Check it out www.

The James Blue Project | A Cinema Pacific and UO Libraries Collaboration THE MARCH: An Online Exhibition This digital exhibition illuminates the making and impact of The March, a landmark Civil Rights documentary. See More THE JAMES BLUE ALLIANCE The organization launched by Richard Blue to honor his brother’s life and build his legacy can be accessed here. See More JA...

If you have not checked out the digital exhibition by the U of O's David Frank about James Blue's The March, you should.

The March Welcome to The March The March is a documentary by filmmaker James Blue (1930-1980) about the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August of 1963. Blue filmed participants as they prepared for the March on Washington in their home cities, followed them as they traveled to Washington, and reco...

James Blue did voiceover for Robert Kennedy's presidential primary run commercials... I never knew.

Robert F Kennedy Campaign Commercial Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign ad from 1968. John Harwood, currently the chief Washington correspondent at CNBC, is featured in the video as a grad...

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On the 50th Anniversary of the American Film Institute Conservatory for Advanced Film Studies:

“In the summer of 1969, on the terrace of Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills—then a near-ruin, where the last notable event had been the murder of its owner, the oil baron E.L. Doheny, by his butler—I sat being interviewed as a potential fellow in what would be the beginning of the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film Studies. Among those peppering me with questions about The Movies was a handsome, smiling man who somehow conveyed to me the impression that he was on my side—that he was being interviewed as much as I was. This was Jim Blue, who, after the interview—which I was sure I’d blown, and would have to go back home to Kentucky—distracted me with a complimentary conversation about the student film I’d made. He was a country boy, too, he said, and he too was never much at ease out here. What current films was I interested in? Thinking I could show him I wasn’t as much a hick as he might think, I reckoned that I couldn’t wait to see a picture called ‘Cool Medium’ by a filmmaker named Wexell Hassler. It was a tribute to Jim’s great humanity that, instead of collapsing in laughter at this double-spoonerism, he quietly and almost invisibly corrected it. Later I learned that he had been largely responsible for my being accepted as one of the first American Film Institute Fellows at Greystone.

“In that original group of some-what single-minded careerists, I think several of us were dumbfounded at Jim’s generosity. His time, his talent, his brilliance—all were wholeheartedly thrown into the service of us! What was in it for him? It depresses me now to realize how very few of us were aware that we were in the presence of a great teacher as well as a great filmmaker. Jim had the usual and dangerous virtues of modesty and generosity—dangerous because in Hollywood that can be taken as weakness or naiveté—and, in the end, the filmmaker gave way to the teacher. We can only guess at the films Jim never made—a legacy of what might have been. But we have the ones he did make, and the thousands of students he taught have something more: the love, the passion for film, that passed from Jim to us.” --Tom Rickman, 1981.

From Richard Herskowitz:
"The March" digital exhibition, created by Professor David Frank on a Mellon faculty fellowship, launched today at themarch.uoregon.edu. Along with Dan Miller's 2018 film "Citizen Blue," it is the latest product of the James Blue Project (jamesblue.uoregon.edu) that we launched in 2013 when Richard N. Blue donated the James Blue Archive to UO Special Collections.

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https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/30/the-myth-of-the-criminal-immigrant?ref=hp-1-112

The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant The link between immigration and crime exists in the imaginations of Americans, and nowhere else.

Strong Island nominated for oscar in best doc category.

Strong Island | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix "The police had turned my brother into the prime suspect in his own murder." Filmmaker Yance Ford takes an emotional and unflinching look at his family's dev...