Help Me Find the Young Film Makers!

The Otisville Film Club is discussed on this radio program.

http://lawanddisorder.org

I am looking to connect with the students who were the “young filmmakers”:

Jose, Michael, David, Kendall, Wayne, Kevin, Edgar, Richard, Milton (Lefty), Gabriel, Raphael Chino, Raymond Lee, Darrell, Joe, Bubber, Walter, John, Edwin, Lovell, Carlos, Darius, James, James, Mark, James, Terry, Carlos, Edward,  Fred, Tyrone, Eddie.

If you have any information about these men (now in their 60s) please leave your contact information on the comments of this blog-- click on the little pencil at the bottom of this post. 

DeeDee Halleck

The Otisville Barbershop: HAIR

This film by Abraham (the Bloody Crime Crusher star!) is a look at the Otisville Barbershop where students were trained in hair cutting. He used the song from the Broadway show at that time that was very popular. Abe focused a lot on the long locks of the white boys who were at Otisville and whose hippy hairdos were taken off with little ceremony. Towards the end he shows the teacher’s (Mr Massonatti’s bald spot).

Mad Man’s World

This was the room at Otisville which was painted and organized by the students.

This is the installation in Catskill, NY  re-created by Claudia McNulty and DeeDee Halleck

This is the back of the post card announcing the exhibit

This is Geronimo. We hung this poster on the door in Otisville.

Geronimo hangs on the door of the exhibit also.

This is one of the Otisville artists and some of his work. The paintings were also part of the installation.

Photographs and text from my diary were also posted.

Raymond Lee getting a shot of a pool game for Lefty Diaz’s film

Jose and Kevin writing the script for Get on the Good Foot

The titles were the 1950s style 3D ceramic ones.

You can see Geronimo on the door in this shot. Also a poster for the Young Lords. The poster says, "The doors are open to the people’s church” referring to the take over and occupation of the East Harlem church.

Get on the Good Foot

On Campus

On Campus from DeeDee Halleck on Vimeo.