(to be held at Plainfield Community Center while library is renovated)
Highlights from "Holiday Movies and Music," a popular film history presentation among public libraries, senior community centers, and community colleges since 2019.
Health care providers and millions of other front line workers have literally put their lives on the line since the Covid-19 pandemic began early in 2020. We cobbled together this tribute in the Spring of 2020 to remind everyone of the sacrifices being made and that prevention was the world's best hope until those precious and world-changing vaccines are more widely accepted.
The Academy Award winning film "An American in Paris" paid tribute to the superb collection of music and lyrics composed by brothers George and Ira Gershwin, much of it during The Great Depression of the 1930s. But imagine if Ella Fitzgerald's rendition of Gerschin songs--which she recorded eight years after the film was released in 1951--was available. It might look something like this.