What role has East Tennessee played in the film industry? The Lights! Camera! East Tennessee! exhibit at the East Tennessee History Center aims to answer this question. WUOT’s Chrissy Keuper took a tour and talked to some of the people involved in putting the exhibit together: Janine Winfree, Assistant Audiovisual Archivist with TAMIS; John Morton, Film Archivist and Project Manager with TAMIS; and Eric Dawson, Manager of the Calvin M. McClung Collection.
(Not interviewed, but also involved in putting together the exhibit:
Adam Alfrey, Assistant Director of Historical Services at East Tennessee History Center / Knox County Public Library and Rebecca P'Simer, Curator of Collections at the East Tennessee Historical Society)
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— Entering the Lights! Camera! East Tennessee! film exhibit.jpg
Entering the Lights! Camera! East Tennessee! film exhibit at the East Tennessee History Center
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— Movie poster for The Fool Killer, filmed in Knoxville.jpg
Movie poster for The Fool Killer, filmed in Knoxville.
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— The East Tennessee movie star Wall of Fame.jpg
The exhibit's Tennessee movie star Wall of Fame.
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— The Pulp Fiction screenplay by Quentin Tarantino.jpg
The screenplay for "Pulp Fiction" by Quentin Tarantino.
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— The exhibit also spotlights Knoxville's Gem Theatre, which opened in 1913 and closed in 1964.jpg
The exhibit also spotlights Knoxville's Gem Theatre, which opened in 1913 and closed in 1964.
Chrissy Keuper
