MenuInventory of the Freewater Productions Films, 1971-2003 and undated
Abstract
Freewater Films is a student-run programming committee within the Duke University Union (DUU) responsible for both screening and producing films. Film exhibitions have included weekly and summer series, as well as special event screenings featuring particular directors, actors, or genres. As a film production resource, Freewater has provided grants of film stock, equipment, processing, lab work, and technical instruction to members of the Duke community.
The Freewater Films Collection includes various film and tape elements produced by Duke students in the making of their original films. Formats include 35mm film, 16mm film, 8mm film, Betacam SP cassettes, audio cassettes, VHS cassettes, DAT tapes, as well as DVDs. The collection also includes some paper documentation associated with particular films. Film topics include North Carolina environmental issues, poverty in Durham, political rallies, faculty interviews, campus construction, and student performances. Also included are fictional films on psychological, philosophical, or romantic themes, which feature familiar campus locations such as Perkins Library, the Duke Gardens, the Chapel, or the Duke Hospital. The collection also includes compilation tapes of entries from the annual Hal Kammerer Film Competition, as well as film experiments undertaken during Freewater film workshops. The collection is organized chronologically, then alphabetically by film title. In cases where the creators had grouped multiple reels of a particular film into a small box or a can, these groupings were denoted as reel 1-3 of 3, etc. Where available, synposes written on film cans were summarized and included in this finding aid. The majority of these synposes were written by Freewater Productions participant Benjamin Epps.
Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University Archives, Duke University
- Creator
- Freewater Productions
- Title
- Freewater Productions Films, 1971-2003 and undated
- Language of Material
- English
- Extent
- 51 Linear Feet, 445 Items
- Location
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Series Quick Links
- Freewater Productions Films: 1971
- Freewater Productions Films: 1972
- Freewater Productions Films: 1973
- Freewater Productions Films: 1974
- Freewater Productions Films: 1976
- Freewater Productions Films: 1977
- Freewater Productions Films: 1978
- Freewater Productions Films: 1979
- Freewater Productions Films: c. 1970s
- Freewater Productions Films: 1980
- Freewater Productions Films: 1981
- Freewater Productions Films: 1983
- Freewater Productions Films: 1984
- Freewater Productions Films: 1985
- Freewater Productions Films: 1986
- Freewater Productions Films: 1987
- Freewater Productions Films: 1988
- Freewater Productions Films: 1989
- Freewater Productions Films: 1990
- Freewater Productions Films: 1991
- Freewater Productions Films: 1992
- Freewater Productions Films: 1993
- Freewater Productions Films: 1994
- Freewater Productions Films: 1995
- Freewater Productions Films: 1996
- Freewater Productions Films: 1997
- Freewater Productions Films: 1998
- Freewater Productions Films: 1999
- Freewater Productions Films: 2000
- Freewater Productions Films: 2001
- Freewater Productions Films: 2002
- Freewater Productions Films: 2003
- Freewater Productions Films: Undated
- Freewater Productions Films: Oversized Materials (1986, 1992)
- Freewater Productions Films: Documentation (1979-2003 and undated)
Administrative Information
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Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research. However, original audiovisual materials are closed to patron use. Use copies are available in the collection.
Use Restrictions
Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Contents of the Collection
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Expand AllFreewater Productions Films: 1971
Contains films produced in 1971.
Synopsis from container: documentary footage of Mayday protest in Washington DC. Includes footage of protesters, tear gas, helicopters, police, U.S. Army, National Mall, and U.S. Capitol building.
Tape also includes:Round Two, Dying, Passage, Duke University Union Promo, The Tale of Quasi-Hobo, WXDU Trailer.
Directed by Andy Berlin and Chan Smith. From container: A woman's surrealistic encounter on an island.
Tape also includes: Round Two, The Tale of Quasi-Hobo, Passage, Duke University Union Promo, The One I Love, Anti-War Demonstration.
Directed by Jude Cassidy and Ross Spears.
Freewater Productions Films: 1972
Contains films produced in 1972.
Directed by Doug Scott.
Tape also includes: Round Two, The Tale of Quasi-Hobo, Passage, Duke University Union Promo, The One I Love, Anti-War Demonstration.
Freewater Productions Films: 1973
Contains films made in 1973.
Directed by Mick Ramsey and D. Johnston
Freewater Productions Films: 1974
Contains films produced in 1974.
Directed by Bill Schmindheiser.
Directed by Bill Schmindheiser.
Freewater Productions Films: 1976
Contains films produced in 1976.
Directed by Milbre Burch.
Freewater Productions Films: 1977
Contains films produced in 1977.
Clay mural project.
Clay mural project.
Groundbreaking.
Groundbreaking.
T-shirts, Dope Shop.
Freewater Productions Films: 1978
Contains films produced in 1978.
Directed by Pam Hoge. From container: Somebody's pair of feet wake up and go jogging, cross-cut with pictoral similes.
From container: Outtakes.
From container: Outtakes.
Freewater Productions Films: 1979
Contains films produced in 1979.
From container: Rough cut of girl hiding in garbage bin and getting dumped.
From container: Optical Answer Print.
From container: A girl steals money from her policeman-boyfriend, who stole it.
From container: Silent Answer Print.
Directed by David Young. Soundtrack by Lee Erwin. The film is a spoof on the D. W. Griffith film The Birth of a Nation.
According to explanatory notes, this reel contains an alternate ending to The Birth of a Nation. From container: The Freewater Film Society was given the task of restoring this film, transferring it from its original volatile, somewhat decayed nitrite stock to modern safety film. This was painstakingly done under the direction of David Young with the assistance of Valerie Gertner, Laura Hambleton, Avery Rimer, Jose Berger, and David Walder. An appropriate soundtrack, Lee Erwin playing music for D. W. Griffith classics on the Fox-Capitol Theatre Wurlitzer, has been added for the modern audience.
Explanatory page moved to Documentation series.
Freewater Productions Films: c. 1970s
Contains films made during the 1970s that did not contain a specific date.
This film is also included on University Center Compilation reel, also in Box 2.
From container: Outtakes.
In can with 2 reels of magnetic sound.
In can with 2 reels of magnetic sound.
In can with 2 reels of reversal original.
In can with 2 reels of reversal original.
This film is also included on University Center Compilation reel, also in Box 2.
Directed by Quinton Q. Qualles, Jr.
From container: Optical Sound Answer Print.
This film is also included on University Center Compilation reel, also in Box 2.
From container: Workshop film.
Tape also includes: Round Two, The Tale of Quasi-Hobo, Passage, Duke University Union Promo, Dying, Anti-War Demonstration.
Directed by Ned Earle.
Includes: Circus, Schaefer Acceptance, Celebration of Spring.
Includes footage of University Center, Dean Griffith, forest, workshops, Union retreat, and 1975 speech by Terry Sanford.
Freewater Productions Films: 1980
Contains films made during 1980.
Directed by Jeff Davis. From container: Pole vaulting film.
Directed by D.N. Barton and W. Luken.
Directed by Mark Eshman. From container: A guy gets on a city bus and starts dreaming about the party he was at and girl that he met there.
Directed by Jeff Bennett. From container: A guy kills himself, only to become dissatisfied with heaven.
Freewater Productions Films: 1981
Contains films made in 1981.
Directed by Randy Knight, Carolyn Finney and Nathan Schneiderman.
Directed by Northrop Davis.
From container: B-roll.
Directed by William Nichols. From container: Plot: Something about toast and a young couple's relationship at home.
Freewater Productions Films: 1983
Contains films made in 1983.
Directed by D. Scotchie. From container: A one-minute soul-searching drama wrestling with the moral dilemma of popcorn in movie theatres. Highly recommended for all ages.
Directed by Ben Allenoff, featuring Todd Holland and Calista Woodbridge.
Tape also includes: Dying, Passage, The Tale of Quasi-Hobo, Dying, The One I Love, Anti-War Demonstration, WXDU.
Freewater Productions Films: 1984
Contains films made in 1984.
Directed by Lars Erickson. From container: Doctor becomes werewolf. Includes footage of Bryan Center and Duke Hospital.
Freewater Productions Films: 1985
Contains films made in 1985.
From container: Processed ECO Original.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
Directed by Andy Falcon and Osceola Refetoff. Film includes computer graphics and animation, with a science-fiction theme.
From container: Work Print Outtakes.
From container: EKTA-Sound Print/ Answer Print No. 1.
Directed by Matthew A. Borten.
From container: Soundtracks.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
From container: Soundtracks.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
From container: Answer Print.
Directed by Marshall Becker and John Neumark. From container: the tale of a 'down to earth' guy who doesn't quite approve of modern world. Blues soundtrack.
From container: A & B Rev. Snd. Answer Print.
Tape also includes: Round Two, Dying, Passage, Duke University Union Promo, The One I Love, Anti-War Demonstration, WXDU.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
From container: Processed ECO Original.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
Directed by Doug Mankoff. From container: ECO Original.
From container: Interview, man and woman, cheesy romance cuts.
From container: Processed ECO Original.
Freewater Productions Films: 1986
Contains films made in 1986.
Directed by David J. Wright.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
From container: Processed ECN Original.
From container: Processed ECN Original.
From container: Processed ECN Original.
From container: Processed ECN Original.
From container: One-lite color-positive work print.
From container: One-lite color-positive work print.
From container: One-lite color-positive work print.
Directed by Dave Pratt, Fred Stein, and Jim LeClair.
Item moved to Oversized series.
Freewater Productions Films: 1987
Contains films made in 1987.
Directed by Michael Bayer.
From container: UNF.
Freewater Productions Films: 1988
Contains films made in 1988.
Directed by Michael G. Mitchell. Includes shot of professor smoking.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: Original ECN.
From container: Original ECN, A & B rolls, B-wind S/T.
From container: Original ECN, A-Roll.
From container: Original ECN, B-Roll.
From container: ECN.
From container: ECN.
From container: ECN.
From container: ECN.
From container: Processed ECN.
From container: Work Print Credits, Outtakes.
From container: Check Print.
From container: Color Work Print Edit.
Directed by M. Longosz.
From container: 4x Reversal and Scene: Perkins.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: A-Wind.
From container: B-Wind.
From container: B-Wind.
From container: Track B-narration.
Mixing Cue Sheet moved to Documentation series.
From container: Workcut Print.
Directed by Duncan McLean and Johnathan Brenner.
From container: Processed 4x Reverse Original.
From container: ECN Original.
From container: ECN Original.
From container: ECN Original.
From container: Processed ECN Original.
From container: Processed ECN Original.
From container: Processed ECN Original.
From container: ECN original; heads; trims; roll 1.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documents Series.
From container: ECN original; heads; trims; roll 1.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documents Series.
From container: ECN.
From container: ECN.
From container: Answer Print.
Freewater Productions Films: 1989
Contains films made in 1989.
From container: Obvious comparison between sacred and secular; Basic soundtrack contrasting religious chants and hymns with frat party babble; and Monster hiding in the toilet.
From container: Color Negative Original.
From container: Negative A-Roll.
From container: Negative A-Roll.
From container: Sound mix.
Directed by Douglass Mankoff. From container: Douglass Mankoff follows the life of young rodeo cowboy and student Jeff Miller in this documentary.
Cue Sheet moved to Documentation series.
From container: A-B S/T Negative.
From container: A-B S/T Negative.
From container: A-B S/T Negative.
From container: A-B S/T Negative.
Directed by Adam Rogers. From container: A very ambitious piece about a boy writing a paper who goes back in time to visit South Africa during the Sixties.
From container: Sound mix; Degaussed.
From container: A/B Roll.
From container: A/B Roll.
From container: One-lite Ekta-89 work print.
Tape also includes: Muffin Man.
Directed by Jack Angelo.
From container: ECN Original.
From container: ECN Original.
From container: Sound Roll.
Mixing Instructions moved to Documentation series.
From container: ECN Negative A-Roll Tail.
From container: ECN Negative B-Roll Tail.
From container: Cemetary scenes, hospital scenes (bedroom).
From container: Hospital corridor, garage scenes.
From container: Work Print Edit.
[Sound only.]
Directed by Henry Lee.
Director's Notes on splicing moved to Documentation series.
Directed by Robeson.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
From container: Work Print; No sound (shot for sync); Interview of a couple.
From container: Color Negative Original.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
From reel: Bathroom humor.
Freewater Productions Films: 1990
Contains films made in 1990.
Directed by Chris Speck.
Includes 3 reels of varying sizes. From container: ECN Original and Trims.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: Sound.
Instructions Sheet moved to Documentation series.
From container: Color Positive Work Print CRI-4.
From container: Color Positive Work Print CRI-4.
From container: Color Positive Work Print CRI-4.
From container: Color Negative Original.
From container: ECN Original.
From container: Color Positive Workprint.
Directed by Sam Ware.
From container: Trims and Outtakes.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: Trims and Outtakes.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: Trims and Outtakes.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: Trims and Outtakes.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: Trims and Outtakes.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: EKTA Workprint.
From container: EKTA Workprint.
From container: A-Roll.
From container: B-Roll.
From container: B-Wind and Optional Soundtrack.
From container: Sound Mix.
From container: Optical Sound Track.
Directed by Langdon Steve and Fox Buckley. From container: Not a Freewater Production.
Commercial film for colleges, featuring TV commercials, NBA games, etc. Trailer for the film Mermaids at end of reel. Stand-up comedy.
Directed by Bill Hayes and Michael G. Mitchell.
From container: Original.
From container: Original.
Directed by Michael Mitchell and George Richman. Music by Darren Redlick.
From container: I-Negative S/T.
Cue Sheet moved to Documentation series.
From container: I-Negative S/T.
Cue Sheet moved to Documentation series.
From container: Sound Effects.
From container: Dialogue.
From container: Music.
Directed by Mike Mitchell.
From Container: 16mm transfer, April 25, 1990.
Freewater Productions Films: 1991
Contains films made in 1991.
From container: Work Print.
From container: Tests.
Directed by Jensen and Madden.
Directed by Max Day. Alternates between interview and narrative formats.
From container: ECN Original, Heads, Trims.
From container: ECN.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
Includes 7 reels of varying sizes. From container: ECN.
From container: Heads.
Timing Chart moved to Documentation series.
From container: ECN.
From container: B Wind S/T.
Tape also includes: The Legend of the Herring, Duet/Biology.
From container: ECN Original.
Reel also includes: Kung Fu.
Reel also includes: Kung Fu.
From container: Work Print. No sound (shot for sync).
From container: Work Print. No sound (shot for sync).
From container: Edited Work Print.
From container: Work Print.
Freewater Productions Films: 1992
Contains films made in 1992.
Directed by Adam Joyce. From container: A film about a guy making a film.
From container: ECN Original.
Timing Charts moved to Documentation series.
From container: ECN Original.
Timing Charts moved to Documentation series.
From container: Heads / Picture Reel.
From container: B-Wind S/T.
From container: ECN Original, Heads, Trims.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
Includes 5 reels of varying sizes. From container: ECN Original, Heads, Trims.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: ECN Original.
From container: Work Print.
From container: Checkprint.
From container: Heads.
From container: Tail Original ECN.
Includes 4 reels of varying sizes. From container: ECN.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
Directed by Steve Reissner.
From container: ECN Original.
From container: ECN Original.
From container: ECN.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
From container: ECN.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
Includes 3 reels of varying sizes. From container: ECN.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
From container: ECN Originals.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
From container: Voiceovers.
From container: A-Roll.
Moved to Oversized series.
From container: Original ECN.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
From container: Work Print.
From container: Original ECN.
From container: Work Print In-Progress.
Directed by Xavier Marquez.
Photocopy of original box cover in Documentation series.
Freewater Productions Films: 1993
Contains films made in 1993.
Directed by Steve Reissner.
From container: ECN Original.
From container: Reel 2.
From container: Edited Sound.
From container: Edited Work Print.
Directed by Sam Ware.
From container: Cut Negative.
From container: Cut Negative.
From container: Sound Edits.
From container: Sound Edits.
Directed by Evan Berg.
From container: Original ECN.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
Directed by Heather Whitaker. Includes footage of McDonald's Drugstore.
From container: Music Outtakes.
From container: Music Outtakes.
From container: Work Print Outtakes.
From container: Work Print Outtakes.
Directed by Christine Connavo.
Includes 4 reels and several short clips. From container: ECN and Outtakes.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
Includes 6 reels. From container: Original ECN and Work Print Cut.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
Includes 6 reels. From container: Original ECN and Work Print Cut.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: Kate and Seth Practice and ECN.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
Freewater Productions Films: 1994
Contains films made in 1994.
Directed by Julie Freeman.
Directed by Jensen.
Directed by Sam Ware.
Includes 10 reels of varying sizes. From container: ECN Original and Outtakes.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: Answer Print.
From container: Work Print Cut.
Directed by Jenny Lynn. Comedy. Includes shots of Duke Gardens.
From container: Original ECN. Reel also includes: The Fortune Teller.
From container: Original ECN. Reel also includes: The Fortune Teller.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
From container: Edited Work Print. Includes scene entitled Runaway Carraige.
From container: Work Print.
From container: Work Print.
Directed by Xavier Marquez.
From container: Work Print.
From container: Work Print Edit.
Directed by Justin Lester.
Includes 9 reels of varying sizes. From container: Sound, Work Print, Negatives.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: Original Negative Head.
Freewater Productions Films: 1995
Contains films made in 1995.
Directed by Wright.
From container: ECN.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
Directed by Roger Beebe.
From container: Original Negative and Print.
Edge Number Registers and Director's Cutting Notes moved to Documentation series.
From container: Original Negative and Print.
Edge Number Registers and Director's Cutting Notes moved to Documentation series.
From container: Original Negative and Print.
Edge Number Registers and Director's Cutting Notes moved to Documentation series.
From container: Original Negative and Print.
Edge Number Registers and Director's Cutting Notes moved to Documentation series.
Tape also includes: Pizza King, The Legend of the Herring.
Tape is entitled: Roger Beebe's Freewater Films (Plus Two). Tape also includes: A Fragmentary History of the 21st Century, Dirty Harry and the Hendersons, Eat Art, Suggs Must Die!, What Boys Want.
Directed by Matt Littin.
From container: ECN Original.
From container: Work Print.
Reels also include Positive Print of The Chase.
From container: Seth's Workshop.
From container: Work Print.
From container: Work Print Edit.
Directed by Xavier Márquez. Synopsis from container: Three students enroll in a required class and hate the teacher because of his arrogant views.
From container: Original ECN. Reel also includes: Rock-A-Bye, Bye Baby.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
From container: Heads.
Directed by Wright.
From container: ECN Original.
From container: ECN Original.
Directed by Wright.
From container: ECN Original.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
From container: Work Print.
Directed by Ann Trusty.
Freewater Productions Films: 1996
Contains films made in 1996.
Directed by James Hauser.
From container: Test Footage and ECN Original.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: Work Print.
Directed by James Hauser.
From container: ECN Original.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: ECN Original.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: ECN Original.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: Sound. No reference tone.
Directed by Justin Lester.
From container: ECN Originals.
Edge Receipts moved to Documentation series.
From container: ECN Originals.
Edge Receipts moved to Documentation series.
From container: ECN Originals.
Edge Receipts moved to Documentation series.
Directed by Fabrice Lyczba.
From container: Cut Negative.
From container: Director's Cut.
Directed by Roger Beebe.
Tape is entitled: Roger Beebe's Freewater Films (Plus Two). Tape also includes: Suggs Must Die!, A Fragmentary History of the 21st Century, Dirty Harry and the Hendersons, What Boys Want.
Directed by Rebecca Pryce.
Includes 7 reels of varying sizes. From container: ECN Original.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
Directed by Betsy Frederick.
From container: Original Negative and Work Print.
Edge Number Register moved to Documentation series.
From container: Original Camera Negative and Work Print.
Work Order moved to Documentation series.
In container with sound reel 1 of 1 (675 ft.)
In container with sound reel 2 of 2 (1500 ft.)
In container with film reel 1 of 1 (675 ft.)
In container with film reel 2 of 2 (900 ft.)
Includes 9 reels of varying sizes, both sound and film reels. From container: Clips, sound and picture.
Directed by John Antonini. Kammerer Award submission.
Directed by Mike Bott.
Directed by Fabrice Lyczba and Xavier Marquez. Cinematography by Mick McNeely.
From container: ECN Original.
From container: Final Sound, 14 sec., 1KHZ tone.
From container: Sound Mix.
From container: Final edited master.
Tape also includes: Cinderella's Shoe (Director's Cut).
Directed by Rob Koegler.
From container: ECN Original.
Edge Number Registers, Camera Reports, and Credits Posters moved to Documentation series.
From container: ECN Original.
Edge Number Registers, Camera Reports, and Credits Posters moved to Documentation series.
From container: ECN Original.
Includes 4 reels of varying sizes.
Edge Number Registers, Camera Reports, and Credits Posters moved to Documentation series.
From container: Ambient Filler Sound.
From container: Ambient Filler Sound.
From container: Ambient Filler Sound.
From container: Sound mix.
From container: Work Print Edits and Animation.
From container: Work Print Edits and Beginning Leader.
From container: Work Print Edits and B/W.
From container: Work Print Edits and B/W.
From container: Work Print Edits, Scratch, and Color
From container: Grant Film.
From container: Work Print CR.
Freewater Productions Films: 1997
Contains films made in 1997.
Directed by Patrick Wacker.
From container: ECN.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: ECN.
Edge Number Registers moved to Documentation series.
From container: Sound only.
From container: Working Copy.
Directed by Michael Bott. Starring Jordan Sadle.
Directed by Betsy Frederick.
From container: Original Camera Negative.
Edge Number Registers and Camera Reports moved to Documentation series.
From container: Sound for Stoplight Scene 1.
Directed by Roger Beebe. 1998 Kammerer Award winner.
From film: Heads A/B Roll.
Tape is entitled: Roger Beebe's Freewater Films (Plus Two). Tape also includes: Eat Art, A Fragmentary History of the 21st Century, Dirty Harry and the Hendersons, What Boys Want.
Directed by Ray Wyant and Carl Kingsford.
From container: Work Print.
From container: Work Print.
From film: Filter Test Roll.
Freewater Productions Films: 1998
Contains films made in 1998.
Tape is entitled: Roger Beebe's Freewater Films (Plus Two). Tape also includes: Eat Art, A Fragmentary History of the 21st Century, Dirty Harry and the Hendersons, Suggs Must Die!
Freewater Productions Films: 1999
Contains films made in 1999.
Directed by Roger Beebe.
Tape is entitled: Roger Beebe's Freewater Films (Plus Two). Tape also includes: Suggs Must Die!, Dirty Harry and the Hendersons, Eat Art, What Boys Want.
Directed by Margaret Chapman.
From container: Negative W/P and Dartmouth College Film Stories, Process Normal.
Photocopy of original cover of reel 8 in Documentation series.
Directed by Benjamin Epps.
Tape also includes: Phil Armonik, And the Bunnies Shall Rule, Pig Without A Cue.
Directed by Shani Harris.
From container: A-roll Original Camera Negative.
Lab Effects Sheet and Timing Sheets moved to Documentation series.
From container: B-roll Original Camera Negative.
Lab Effects Sheet and Timing Sheets moved to Documentation series.
From container: Magnetic Stock.
Directed by Margaret Chapman. Magnetic Stock footage.
From container: Heads/Tails, Tone, Outtakes.
From container: Tests.
Freewater Productions Films: 2000
Contains films made in 2000.
Directed by Julia Love. Kammerer Award submission.
Directed by Alanna Thain.
Directed by Paul Fleschner.
Directed by Rob Moody. Kammerer Award submission.
Directed by Jason Middleton.
Directed by Benjamin Epps. Featuring Clay Taliaferro. Music by Antony John.
Two identical copies present.
Tape also includes: And the Bunnies Shall Rule, Pig Without A Cue, Me, Myself, and Eye.
Tape includes: Phil Armonik, Me, Myself, and Eye, Hare Krishna, A Conversation with Herbert Simon. Four identical copies present.
Contents list moved to Documentation series.
Freewater Productions Films: 2001
Contains films made in 2001.
Directed by Jesse Eisenhardt. From container: Copyright Snake & Crane Productions.
Editing instructions moved to Documentation series.
Directed by Jason Middleton.
Tape also includes: Prelude to Matrimony, Markheim. From container: Master.
Tape also includes: Prelude to Matrimony, Markheim. From container: Master.
Tape also includes: Prelude to Matrimony, Markheim. From container: Dubbed from DVCAM master.
Directed by Russell Robinson and Nic de Armendi.
From container: Work Print. Reel also includes: Study Skills.
Directed by Isham Randolph. Kammerer Award submission.
Directed by Jason Middleton. Kammerer Award submission.
From container: Original Negative, A-Roll.
Cue Sheet moved to Documentation series.
From container: Original Negative, B-Roll.
Cue Sheet moved to Documentation series.
From container: Soundtrack.
Cue Sheet moved to Documentation series.
Cue Sheet moved to Documentation series.
From container: Work Print.
Cue Sheet moved to Documentation series.
Directed by Russell Robinson and Nic de Armendi.
From container: Work Print. Reel also includes: Elevator Music.
Miscellaneous paperwork moved to Documentation series.
Directed by Kurt Volkan.
Directed by Sarah Chasnovitz and Peter Jordan.
Tape includes: Aria, The Grail, Bridled!, Signal Transduction, News Correspondence, Seattle Symphony, A Better Place, When I Grow Up.
Contents list moved to Documentation series.
Freewater Productions Films: 2002
Contains films made in 2002.
Directed by Nayeli Garie-Crupo.
Negative Report moved to Documentation series.
Directed by Russell Robinson.
Edge Number Report and Camera Reports moved to Documentation series.
Directed by Sam Morgan.
Tape also includes: Prelude to Matrimony, A Letter. From container: Master.
Tape also includes: Prelude to Matrimony, A Letter. From container: Dubbed from DVCAM Master.
Directed by Shani Harris Peterson.
Tape also includes: Markheim, A Letter.
Tape also includes: Markheim, A Letter.
Tape also includes: Markheim, A Letter. From container: Dubbed from DVCAM Master.
Freewater Productions Films: 2003
Contains films made in 2003.
Directed by Matt Simon, Lauren Wolkstein.
Tape also includes: Prelude to Matrimony, A Letter. From container: Master.
Directed by Gabe Morgan.
Tape also includes: Mine.
Tape also includes: Mine.
Directed by Hillary Kaylor and Matt Signer.
From container: Master.
Tape also includes: Mine.
From container: Dub from DVCAM Master.
Directed by Carrie Schrader.
Tape also includes: Harder.
Tape also includes: Light Tonight.
From container: Dub from DVCAM Master.
Tape also includes: Harder.
Directed by Elan Dassani.
Directed by Gabe Morgan.
Directed by Elan Dassani.
Directed by Sam Morgan.
Freewater Productions Films: Undated
Contains undated films. Series is divided into Titled and Untitled subseries.
Includes films for which there is a title or brief summary available, but no date.
From container: ECN Original.
From container: ECN Original.
Directed by Douglas Scott.
From container: A-Roll.
Directed by Xavier Márquez.
From container: Work Prints.
From container: Work Prints.
Directed by Benjamin Epps.
Tape also includes: Phil Armonik, Pig Without A Cue, Me, Myself, and Eye.
Directed by Gerhart and Jensen.
Directed by Mark Korman.
From container: Finished Work Print.
Directed by Rebecca Pryce.
From container: Finished Work Print.
From container: Work Print Edit.
From container: Dirty Dupe, Color Transfer without sound or burn-in window.
Directed by Roger Beebe.
Tape is entitled: Roger Beebe's Freewater Films (Plus Two). Tape also includes: Suggs Must Die!, A Fragmentary History of the 21st Century, Eat Art, What Boys Want.
From container: Reel No. 3, Original ECN.
From container: Original Negative, A and B-Rolls.
From container: Original Negative, A and B-Rolls.
Contains 3 reels, 90 ft., 40 ft., 15 ft.
From container: Work Print.
From container: Orig. Pix R-1, Color with Magnetic Soundtrack.
Synopsis from film: The filmed sequences you are about to see were taken during the course of an eight-week pilot project conceived by two Durham women, ex-teachers, who felt the necessity both to increase community involvement in public education, and to seriously open for consideration the necessity of making education in creative skills a primary aspect of elementary education. The Education Committee of the First Presbyterian Church of Durham, itself having been at work on the concept of arts education, sponsored the pilot project.
From container: Negative A-Roll.
Directed by Parker, Osbourne, Wilder and Fowlie.
From container: ECN Original.
From container: ECN Original.
From container: Negatives and Work Prints.
From container: Orig. Pix R-1, Color with Magnetic Soundtrack.
From container: Looks like another documentary, this one contrasting blacks and whites, poor and rich, Durham and Duke.
From container: Work Print.
From container: Work Print.
From container: Work Print.
From container: Work Print.
From container: Work Print.
From container: Work Print.
Can has 2 reels, 600 ft. and 100 ft.
From film: Head.
Can has 2 reels, 120 ft., 20 ft.
Can has 2 reels, 70 ft., 10 ft.
From container: Work Print.
From container: Edit Master.
From container: Processed Original Negative and Anthro Film.
From container: Processed Original Negative.
From container: Work Print of first shooting, Resolved Sound.
Directed by Doug Scott.
From container: Edited Work Print.
From container: Work Print, No Sound Found.
Directed by Benjamin Epps.
Tape also includes: Phil Armonik, And the Bunnies Shall Rule, Me, Myself, and Eye.
Directed by Justin Lester.
Directed by Vivian Casagrarde.
From container: Original Negatives.
From container: Original Negatives.
From container: Original Negatives.
From container: Original Negatives.
Directed by Michael Cato.
Directed by Margaret McCarthy. From container: Duke Institute of the Arts.
From container: ECN.
Tape also includes: Round Two, Dying, The Tale of Quasi-Hobo, Duke University Union Promo, Passage, The One I Love, Anti-War Demonstration.
From container: Work Print.
Contains films lacking both a title and a date.
Directed by Northrop Davis.
Directed by Betsy Frederick.
From container: Betsy's Footage.
Document Listing Time and Key Codes moved to Documentation series.
Directed by Xavier Marquez.
From container: Work Print.
Directed by Xavier Marquez.
From container: Betsy Frederick.
From container: Betsy Frederick.
Directed by Doug Scott.
From container: UNF.
Directed by Steven Wright.
Includes shots of forest, car, the First Last Handy Mart, and guitar player.
From container: ECN and Keith Project.
From container: Black Leader.
From container: A-B Roll.
From container: A-B Roll.
From container: UNF.
From container: Original Negative, N.T.
From container: ECN.
From container: Ins.
From container: UNF.
Includes 21 reels of varying sizes. From container: Sound Effects: wooshes, whistles, crowd roar, seal screams, and others.
Includes 9 reels of varying sizes. From container: school bells, applause in stadium, people laughing, tin cans rattling, freaky synths, roller coaster, and others.
Sheets with labels moved to Documentation series.
From container: Uncut Sound.
From film: Performed by Gladys Bailin, Michael Ballard, Caroline Carlson, Anne Ditson, Raymond Johnson, Murray Louis, Marcia Wardel. Includes shots of modern and ballet dancers onstage, ballet dancers outdoors, students playing in snow, and belly dancer.
Contains oversize film reels removed from previous series.
Oblivion: A Science Fiction Adventure (1986)
Directed by Dave Pratt, Fred Stein, and Jim LeClair. From film: Big Blue Ashtray Productions presents…
Directed by Steve Reissner.
From film: A-Roll.
Contains paper documentation removed from previous series.
(2 folders)
(2 folders)
(2 folders)
(2 folders).
Historical Note
Freewater Films is a student-run programming committee within the Duke University Union (DUU) responsible for screening and producing films. It is overseen by the DUU Programming Council.
The committee's origins can be traced to 1969, when the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation gave funds for students from the Duke University Union Visual Arts Committee to make a 16mm film. In November 1970, several students produced an original film entitled Dying, using a 16mm Bolex camera borrowed from the DUU. The following year, Dying went on to win first prize at the Association of College Unions' 1971 International Film Festival.
Freewater soon established its mission in two categories: film exhibition and film production. By Spring of 1972, the film exhibition program was comprised of two weekly film series. One of these took place on Thursday evenings, and featured independent, educational, or niche films. The other series took place on Friday evenings, and featured more recent and popular films. The Friday series provided much of the revenue needed for both the Thursday series, and the film production activities of Freewater members. In addition to these two series, Freewater also sponsored a ten-week summer film series as well as several film festivals devoted to particular genres, actors, or directors. Additionally, it arranged visits by film directors and actors on campus, as well as community outreach initiatives, such as a children's film series, and discounted tickets for underprivileged youth.
As a film production resource, Freewater provided grants of film stock, equipment, processing, lab work, and technical instruction to members of the Duke community. It also funded several independent studies and one Duke course on filmmaking. During the 1970s-1990s, Freewater's Production Coordinator organized a weekly film workshop geared toward beginning and intermediate filmmakers at Duke, focusing on techniques such as animation and graphics. Initially, the organization only had the equipment to produce and process 16mm black and white film, and did most of the processing tasks in-house, in the basement of the Old Chemistry Building on Duke's West Campus. Prints of student-made films were often shown during film series held at Duke and at national screenings; additionally, monitors in the Flowers Lounge often showed some of the films.
Freewater also provided use of their equipment for projects by the Duke Hospital (for producing a commercial) and the Anthropology Department (for producing a documentary on primate research). In some Duke courses, students were allowed to produce films for academic credit; for example the 1982 course Politics and the Media allowed students to incorporate original film-making projects. Other Freewater projects included documentaries on Duke professors, North Carolina environmental issues, and political rallies in Washington, D.C. Many of the films present fictional narratives featuring scenes from Duke campus, including Perkins Library, the Duke Gardens, the Chapel, and the Duke Hospital.
In the Spring of 1974, Freewater absorbed the videotape committee of the Union to coordinate expertise between tape and film experts; they continued to champion experiments with videotape as a new medium. Currently, it is divided into two separate committees: Freewater Productions and Freewater Presentations.
Subject Headings
- Duke University, Durham, N.C.--Freewater Productions Films.
- Duke University, Durham, N.C.
- Duke University. University Archives
- Duke University--Students.
- Duke University. Dept. of Cultural Anthropology
- Duke University. Chapel
- Duke University. Sarah P. Duke Gardens
- Student activities--North Carolina.
- Student unions--North Carolina.
- Amateur films.
- Documentaries and films and video.
- Durham (N.C.)
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Freewater Productions Films, University Archives, Duke University.
Provenance
The Freewater Productions Films were received by the University Archives as a transfer in Office of Student Activities and Facilities in June 2007.
Processing Information
Processed by Jessica Wood, March 2012
Encoded by Jessica Wood, April 2012
Accession 2007-0028 is described in this finding aid.
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and local Style Guide.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.