{"id":25706,"date":"2018-04-19T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=25706"},"modified":"2018-04-19T01:57:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T06:57:58","slug":"austin-peay-state-university-professors-to-present-documentary-clarksville-1937-at-nashville-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2018\/04\/19\/austin-peay-state-university-professors-to-present-documentary-clarksville-1937-at-nashville-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University professors to present documentary, \u201cClarksville 1937,\u201d at Nashville Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – When Charles Crow started filming everyday life in downtown Clarksville, there was no such thing as YouTube or iPhones or even the Internet.<\/p>\n

The year was 1937, and Crow, a young editor with The Leaf-Chronicle, had just purchased a 16-millimeter Keystone Camera\u2014one of the first affordable film cameras sold in the U.S. It only captured images in black and white and without sound.<\/p>\n

\"APSU<\/a>

APSU professors Heuston and Karen Bullis have turned the Charles Crow’s footage into an 8-minute documentary, \u201cClarksville 1937,\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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Still, what he did film is far more entertaining\u2014particularly for Clarksville residents\u2014than the staggering number of videos currently available online.<\/p>\n

Crow, who would later become mayor of Clarksville, created a visual time capsule starring men in fedora hats and women sporting shoulder pads.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest thing for me was watching the hustle and bustle of Downtown Clarksville,\u201d Kathy Lee Heuston, interim chair of the Austin Peay State University Department of Communication, said. \u201cThat\u2019s where everything happened, that\u2019s where everyone went to enjoy life. The movie theater was there, the newspaper. Everything was there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eighty years after Crow bought his camera, Heuston and Karen Bullis, APSU assistant professor of communication, turned this raw footage into an 8-minute documentary, \u201cClarksville 1937,\u201d which will have its world premiere next month during the 2018 Nashville Film Festival (NFF).<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year the festival received nearly 5,000 shorts submissions and 215 shorts were selected,\u201d a NFF news release stated. \u201cSelected shorts this year include films made by Dev Patel, Justine Bateman, and Neill Blomkamp and starring Natalia Dyer, Armie Hammer, Alfred Molina, Sigourney Weaver, and Kerri Kenney.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cClarksville 1937\u201d documentary, selected for the festival\u2019s Tennessee First Competition, will be shown at 8:45pm on May 11th, and at 5:30pm on May 14th, at the Regal Hollywood Stadium, 716 Thompson Lane, in Nashville.<\/p>\n

Crow passed away in 1993, but his family kept the film he shot of Clarksville in the 1930s. Thanks to a grant from the Clarksville-Montgomery County Arts and Heritage Development Council, Heuston and Bullis developed an engaging documentary featuring the footage and interviews with Crow\u2019s sons, Chris and Charles Jr., and Montgomery County Historian Eleanor Williams.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so exciting to use that historical footage and to tell it through Charles Crow\u2019s sons,\u201d Bullis said. \u201cWith the help of Professors David von Palko and Mitsutoshi Inaba and local musician Rick Goodwin, we also found music of that time, big band music and some blues, that really helped set the pace.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of things people would recognize,\u201d Heuston added. \u201cBut it was strange for me when I first saw things like Riverside Drive. It was all a dirt road, and they called it Front Street.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bullis and Heuston hope Clarksville residents will attend the world premiere at the film festival to see a bit of Clarksville history on the big screen. Once the festival is over, they plan to make it available to the public and possibly expand on this subject.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to tell a larger story about Clarksville,\u201d Bullis said.<\/p>\n

For information on the film, contact Heuston at leek@apsu.edu<\/a> or Bullis at bullisk@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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