I Remember When (Bicentennial Remix)

Fri, 11/29/2024 - 11:40pm

In 2022, the staff of the AADL Archives discovered and had digitized a collection of interviews that had gone into the making of the library's I Remember When series of television programs for Ann Arbor's sesquicentennial in 1974*.  We all knew what the folks in 1974 had made from these interviews, but we thought it might be interesting to see what someone from 2024 would do with the same set of footage.  So we handed the whole lot to filmmaker Aaron Valdez, who combed through 17 hours of footage to create this 15-minute remix for the bicentennial.  Aaron explores the personalities of the interviewees, the stories they tell (complete with contradictions), and the mishaps they all left behind in creating this now 50-year-old work of local history.

*See Ann Arbor 200 release #169

Sesquicentennial Interview: Fred Looker

Thu, 11/07/2024 - 5:16pm

This interview was conducted in 1974 as part of the I Remember When television series produced by the Ann Arbor Public Library.