Alice B. Russell Micheaux Memorial Campaign
Alice B. Russell Micheaux was a pioneering film actress and film producer, as well as the widow of Oscar Micheaux, renowned African American filmmaker, and both were active during the silent era through the 1940s. Yet unfortunately, Alice spent her final years as a ward of the state suffering from dementia, and was buried in 1985 in an unmarked pauper’s grave at the Greenwood Union Cemetery in Rye, New York.
To learn more about Alice and the current efforts of the Alice Micheaux Headstone Committee to honor her life and career, please read BFC/A director Terri Francis’s post online at https://www.gofundme.com/alice-b-russell-micheaux-headstone
BFC/A’s Josef Gugler Collection at Image Collections Online
Earlier this fall, BFC/A archivist Ronda Sewald quietly launched the Josef Gugler African and Middle Eastern Film Collection on the IU Libraries’ site, Image Collections Online (ICO). As of this posting, access-quality jpegs of approximately 785 posters and photographs — more than one-third of the visual items in the collection — are viewable at http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/images/splash.htm?scope=bfca/VAD9191, with the remaining items to be scanned and uploaded in the months ahead. Ronda and the BFC/A offer our thanks to the IU Libraries’ Digital Collections Services team for their support of this effort.
For more on the project, see Ronda’s blog post at https://blogs.iu.edu/bfca/2017/12/06/bfc-as-josef-gugler-collection-at-image-collections-online/
Coming in January 2018
We’ll be announcing our Spring 2018 events calendar very soon with some exciting guests and programs to kick off the new year. Here’s a small peek at what’s coming up in January, with thanks to our programming partners at IU Cinema, Bloomington PRIDE, Cinema and Media Studies at The Media School, the Center for Documentary Research and Practice, and the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society.
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