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Steve Fesenmaier writes "Last night on CBS the American Film Institute broadcast a 3-hour special of the Top 50 heroes and villians in American feature films. See the list and read about the 400 films that were nominated at

afi.com "

Steve Fesenmaier writes "

For several months local newspapers have been writing about a new Canadian film called
“Wrong Turn.” Directed by Pa. native son Robert Schmidt whose earlier credits include
an episode in the TV series " An American Town," (2001) and “Crime and Punishment in Suburbia” (2000), the film is about (from IMDB),” A carload of six teens find themselves trapped in the woods of West Virginia, hunted down by "cannibalistic
mountain men grossly disfigured through generations of in-breeding." Several years ago
I found a similar film, “Captured Alive” that actually had Pat Morita (of “Karate Kid” fame) in a film about people traveling from Pittsburgh to Atlanta who are shot down with a Civil War era cannon and turned into toxic waste slaves. -- Read More

Steve Fesenmaier writes \"The current issue of LJ has a great list of things
for librarians to do to promote their A/V collections....one includes some work I have
been doing.

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Steve Fesenmaier writes "If you couldn't make it to the West Virginia Library Association's Spring Fling this year, you missed one of the best two-hours on libraries and movies. Filmmakers and librarians discussed how libraries can help make local history films; WV's leading playwright Jean Battlo talked about making a new version of WV's most famous "lost film," about Smilin Sid Hatfield, famous from the "Matewan Massacre;" Mari-Lynn Evans showed clips from her $2 million PBS series on Appalachia that will be aired this January; and environmentalist filmmaker Robert Gates showed his just-completed film on the effects of mountaintop removal, "Mucked." See picts and the poster at:
wvla.org "