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LOGGER'S SHEET
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LOGGER: Andras Goldinger
REEL NUMBER: 9           STAGE: AFS
DATE: 6/25/88            PRESENTOR: Nick Spitzer
GROUP NAME: "Folklore on Stage + Screen: The Good, the Bad + the Ugly"
REGION/STYLE:
PERFORMER(S)                     INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION
  Worth Long -- filmmaker,folklorist Atlanta, Georgia
  Rayna Green -- folklorist, Washington, DC
  Nick Spitzer; folklorist, Wash, DC
                presenter

CONTENTS
1. N. Spitzer - general introduction, changes - outlines of folklore
2. W. Long - question to audience - how has your group been portrayed in Hollywood?
3. audience member - changing stereotypes, better images - Last Emperor
4. all > Charlie Chan
5. W.L. - ethnics - subordination - now changes
       newer filmmakers, more enlightened - yet still the bottom line
6. images on film - are present for life, moustache - villains
7. N.S. - Song of the South?
8. W.L. - Zippidee do dah - suberservient, yet wise, positive father figure, teacher -- giving direction to kids, docile, blacks happy in their situation, perpetuation of stories - positive.
10. R.G. - Indians don't even get to play Indians. Hollywood - one only
11. Image of Indian - plain Buffalo Nickel + Little Buckskin
     vs. multi-faceted --> breakthroughs, [[underline]] Cheyenne Autumn [[/underline]] [[underline]] Little Big Man [[/underline]] 
12. but Travesty of [[underline]] Man Called Horse [[/underline]] 
13. more real, historic aspects depicted (humor) - but still - no Eskimo, Choctaw, Ojibway, Creek depictions market - not great protest, pressure group still Miss Mazola, in Central Park.
      language, dialect
      N.S. Cajun changes, music+food - 10 yrs. ago- [[underline]] Dangerous Voyage [[/underline]], [[underline]] Southern Comfort [[/underline]]
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