Party on with vintage instructional films and newsreels

Still from a vintage film.

In the “A/V Geeks at the Hunt Library” event series, A/V Geeks founder and NC State alumnus Skip Elsheimer joins forces with NC State faculty members to present and discuss unusual and exemplary classroom instructional films, newsreels, and documentaries spanning the last 80 years. Playing upon its value as both kitsch and cultural documentation, Elsheimer screens this neglected wonderment of film on Friday nights at the Hunt Library Teaching & Visualization Lab throughout the semester. All screenings are free and open to the public.

The fall 2018 “A/V Geeks at the Hunt Library” schedule is:

“Sorry for Partying”
Friday, August 24, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. in the Teaching and Visualization Lab, Hunt Library
Vintage films meant to educate audiences about, and scare them away from, the perils of partying—drugs, drinking, and the like. With NC State’s Associate Director of the Office of Student Conduct, Bradley R. Davis.

“Hunger in the Land of Plenty”
Friday, September 21, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. in the Teaching and Visualization Lab, Hunt Library
To complement NC State’s Common Reading selection $2 a Day, psychology professor Mary E. Haskett joins Elsheimer to screen and discuss films about food insecurity and hunger.

“The Greatest Show on Earth”
Friday, October 19, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Teaching and Visualization Lab, Hunt Library

In honor of over 150 years of the North Carolina State Fair, we’ll screen and discuss films all about different kinds of greatest shows on earth, from permanent ones like amusement parks to once-in-a-lifetimes ones like the World’s Fair.

“Everything You Love is Disgusting”
Friday, November 16, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Teaching and Visualization Lab, Hunt Library
Some of our favorite things—like beer, cheese, food and drink of all sorts—are made possible by other things we might not think we love so much: microbes. Biological sciences professor Dr. Carlos Goller joins Elsheimer to watch and talk about films about these disgusting little miracle workers.

Contact
Jason Evans Groth
919-515-2590
jevansg@ncsu.edu