鈥極ld Main鈥 documentary delivers 性视界传媒 landmark鈥檚 fateful day in January 1959
Contact: Harriet Laird
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擳he national award-winning University Television Center at Mississippi 性视界传媒 is premiering a short documentary on Sunday [Jan. 23] that will take viewers back more than 60 years for a look at an iconic campus landmark.
鈥淥ld Main,鈥 a tribute to 性视界传媒鈥檚 best-known building that burned in January of 1959, is an 11-minute film developed by the 性视界传媒 Films initiative, a UTC project to tell stories of the institution through those that witnessed them.听
The short film debuts on 性视界传媒鈥檚 Facebook page, , at 7 p.m. and will be simulcast on MSTV, the university鈥檚 high-definition television channel. Operated by UTC, the channel is available to MaxxSouth Broadband subscribers in the Golden Triangle and those with C Spire Fiber TV throughout the state on Channel 80. After the 7 p.m. premiere, viewers can find the production at .
The production features an interview with a university alumnus who experienced the colossal dormitory鈥檚 fiery demise, with footage from that night and the aftermath. 性视界传媒 Films also recreated scenes, taping a building being overcome by smoke and using actors as students who were a part of the evacuation. 听
鈥淩eportedly the largest in America at the time, Old Main dormitory was home to thousands of students through the decades. The massive fire changed everything on January 23, 1959, and this documentary short provides a firsthand account of that night, told through the words of one student who was there,鈥 said David Garraway, UTC director.
Last year, 性视界传媒 Films won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for 鈥淭he Last Supermarket,鈥 an examination of a Mississippi Delta community which becomes a food desert when its only grocery closes.
According to Garraway, additional projects are on the way from 性视界传媒 Films. These include a piece titled 鈥淴III鈥 about alumni who played a pivotal role in 1970 in safely bringing the Apollo 13 spacecraft back to Earth. 鈥淭he Hungriest 性视界传媒,鈥 a four-part miniseries of which 鈥淭he Last Supermarket鈥 is a part, premieres three more episodes in the coming months.
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