Robbins Barstow Oral History

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Audio oral history interview with Robbins Barstow. An amateur filmmaker for over seventy years, Barstow's color home movie of his family's 1956 California vacation was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2008. Barstow was an active Democrat during the 1960 presidential election and saw Senator Kennedy at a Connecticut rally.Interview conducted via telephone on Enero 25, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty-four minutes long.

Detalles del objeto

Título del objeto:

Robbins Barstow Oral History

Date:

01/25/2010

Condiciones:

Relatos orales

Películas

Película casera

Elecciones presidenciales de 1960

Cultura pop

Barstow, Robbins

Kennedy, John F.

Disneyland

Partido Demócrata

Library of Congress

Connecticut

California

Campaña de 1960 (OHC)

Historia y Cultura de Dallas y los años 60 (OHC)

Cultura popular (OHC)

Autores, cineastas e investigadores (OHC)

Medio:

Nacido digital (.wav file)

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Duración: 34 minutos

Línea de crédito:

Colección de Historia Oral/Museo de la Sexta Planta en Dealey Plaza

Número de objeto:

2010.001.0005

Nota curatorial:

Robbins Barstow passed away on Noviembre 7, 2010, less than ten months after this interview was recorded. His thirty-five-minute 16mm documentary, "Disneyland Dream," was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2008. "Disneyland Dream" chronicles his family's 1956 vacation after the Barstows won a week-long trip to Disneyland in a 3M Scotch contest. Rather than a typical disjointed family home movie, Barstow's unique film, in the words of critic and historian Kenneth George Godwin, is "an artfully constructed narrative using occasionally comical restagings and various camera effects, such as slow motion and reverse action, to evoke the entire family's excitement and pleasure in being the recipients of such an honour." The film may be viewed in full on YouTube: Disneyland Dream (1956) - Home Movie (youtube.com). An essay about the film by film conservator Liz Coffey may be found on the Library of Congress website here: film essay for "Disneyland Dream" (loc.gov). - Stephen Fagin, Curator