Max and films in the Rupp collection

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My wonderful film student Max recently processed, described, and preserved three professionally created moving image films, a departure from the usual Channel 9&10 News films. The Rupp collection is mostly composed of paper- and photographic-based materials documenting Michigan history and tourism, Ernest Hemingway, and part of the Louise Obermiller papers concerning fights over Indigenous land rights, granted by treaties, in Northern Michigan. In the above image you see Max with the Rupp collection, including the three films in blue, archival film cannisters. The films include:

"When Michigan was Young," 1964, 16 mm Black and White, optical soundtrack, polyester base, 1,000 ft.

"My Old Man" [about Ernest Hemingway],1970,16 mm, Color, Optical Soundtrack, Polyester base, 450 ft.

Hemingway-Heroes-DuPont Hemingway Act I Reel I [about Ernest Hemingway], 1961, 16 mm, Black and White, Optical Soundtrack, Polyester base, 1,800 ft.

For more information please see the catalog record and/or finding aid for the Daniel R. Rupp collection.


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