The Collinwood Fire: Steampunk, Non-Fiction, and Historical Haiku
Start Date
29-10-2016 10:30 AM
End Date
29-10-2016 12:00 PM
Description
Though mostly forgotten today, the Collinwood School fire of 1908 killed 172 grade-school children and raised an international clamor for the redesign of school buildings. A team of faculty, staff, and students at Middlebury College have tied together short computer-animated movie, archival footage, advertisements, and photographs to create a multimedia platform for nonfiction storytelling about the fire and events surrounding it. Far from aspiring to conclusiveness, the project highlights the uncertainties of understanding that emerged in the past and what can only be partially known in the present, as narration shifts between the real and the and the animated, the photographic and the computer-generated, historical sources and their limitations.
Type
Presentation
Session
#s2a: Re-Envisioning and Reclaiming History, moderator Mark Sheftall
Language
eng
Location
Elaine Langone Center, Walls Lounge
The Collinwood Fire: Steampunk, Non-Fiction, and Historical Haiku
Elaine Langone Center, Walls Lounge
Though mostly forgotten today, the Collinwood School fire of 1908 killed 172 grade-school children and raised an international clamor for the redesign of school buildings. A team of faculty, staff, and students at Middlebury College have tied together short computer-animated movie, archival footage, advertisements, and photographs to create a multimedia platform for nonfiction storytelling about the fire and events surrounding it. Far from aspiring to conclusiveness, the project highlights the uncertainties of understanding that emerged in the past and what can only be partially known in the present, as narration shifts between the real and the and the animated, the photographic and the computer-generated, historical sources and their limitations.
Comments
Film https://vimeo.com/158669026
The Collinwood Fire sitehttp://collinwoodfire.org/