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Watchfamily movies on a big screen in Fairview Park during a free summer outdoor film series. Movies are scheduled once a month on Friday nights from June through October. Bring a blanket or chair, bug spray and snacks. Movie starts at sunset or when it is dark enough to see the screen.

Sound on! In this clip from the Alsup Smith Family Collection, family members spend a day at ChicagoFest in August 1979, culminating in a performance by Gloria Gaynor. Kevin Alsup narrates the scene: "Everybody's together today, and we're at ChicagoFest and everyone's having a good time, I'm glad we could make the trip, we're all on board, and ready to take a sail. We're shipping off, we're gonna check out this show, and get low." Check out the Alsup Smith Family Collection, 17 films shot by Vanessa Alsup and her husband Kevin around their Englewood home and destinations across the city, from 1970-1980.

Home movie donors are invited to record an oral history with family members who recall the stories behind the films. On February 17, 2008, Susan McClelland sat down with her father Ellis McClelland and SSHMP director Jacqueline Stewart to record an interview about the McClelland family's life and home movies. Watch the interview here, and click below to visit their Collection.

High school students in APL's Teen Arts Council explored SSHMP's digital archive to learn about preserving and archiving South Side Chicago history. The teens created video collages connecting moments in time across families through everyday events, and video essays highlighting home movie moments in imaginative new ways. Watch "The History of Vacations" by Aranya A., and read more about this project on the Research & Education page.

One of the nice things about blogging is that it opens up topics we international-relations specialists would otherwise never explore. One area is representations of world politics in film, games and other media. (Duck of Minerva, where I used to write, is good on this.)

This is a tricky area to write on, academically. How many of us would want to accredit a dissertation about hyper-patriotic US military tropes in the Call of Duty game series or the Transformers film series? These are actually interesting questions, but the international relations field does not reward it professionally. Still, we notice this stuff all the time.

American geopolitical entertainment is notorious for its rah-rah patriotism, 'patriotic' violence, and often brutality. John Wayne made Green Berets to shore up popular support for the Vietnam War. Rambo and Red Dawn capture popular American Cold War thinking so well that I have seen them listed in international relations syllabi.

Since 9/11, it is even more obvious. The TV show 24 was so influential that it influenced the torture debate in the US. Call of Duty channeled the Bush-era hysteria of high-tech terrorists lurking everywhere, which therefore required a massive military response like the Iraq War. The franchise even got right-wing hero (and convicted felon) Oliver North to plumb for the games as possible 'real-life' (!) scenarios. 2012's Battleship was basically a metaphor for the US and Japan working together to repel Chinese domination of the Pacific.

So here is a little social science fun on the Korean movie industry. I live in Korea, so inevitably I watch the films; the geopolitical ones are the most interesting for international relations types. And if there is one trope I notice again and again (perhaps because I am an American), it is the preposterous American villain scenarios the Korean film industry just adores. There's always a rogue American soldier or defence official ready to sacrifice Korea in the name of US global domination. Here are the most preposterous of the last decade: [fold]

North and South Korean soldiers in the middle of the Korean War stumble across each other in a remote village untouched by the war. There they learn that the war was just a big misunderstanding (there's no mention of Kim Il Sung or the communist invasion) and that the real enemy is the Americans who will imminently bomb the peaceful villagers. To the south, Korean officials arguing against the raid are over-ruled by the arrogant American air staff. But thankfully those Northern and Southern soldiers, who have since found their shared Korean-ness, work together to resist the air raid and save the idyllic village from American aggression.

This film was so successful in Korea that it was briefly released in the West. The most famous sequence is at the very beginning when a US military doctor forces his reluctant Korean assistant to dump formaldehyde in the Han river (the main river bisecting Seoul). The agent produces a river monster that terrorizes the city. The evil US authority figure is standard-issue Korean anti-Americanism. But the best part is actually when the creature attacks. It eats an American English teacher with really bad hair while his Korean girlfriend watches. Hah! Korean high-schoolers everywhere, forced to learn English from an early age and attending cram-schools for hours each week, were likely cheering to see their worst enemy eaten. And take that, Korean girls who go out with foreigners!

The film covers the alleged massacre of Korean refugees during the war at No Gun Ri. The film is based on this book, which in turn is based heavily on Associated Press accounts. Those accounts have been seriously questioned, however, in this well-researched response. None of this is covered in the film, including the war-time penetration of South Korea by communist infiltrators that likely contributed to the massacre. Instead, the most egregious interpretation of the event was adopted. The Americans massacre hundreds, and the US soldiers (portrayed wholly unconvincingly by non-Americans with vaguely Russian accents) are mindlessly gleeful and bloodthirsty. For a sustained response to the AP articles, go here.

A coup in North Korea brings to power a mad general determined to reunite Korea and punish America. To stop a missile launch against the US homeland, shady-looking American officers and bureaucrats in Korea (who sound an awful lot like Russians or European English teachers) yell at peace-seeking Korean Government officials and plot to nuke North Korea. The Koreans heroically stand-up to the domineering Americans infringing on Korean sovereignty. Much yelling and conniving about arrogant American control of Korean foreign policy ensues. A last-ditch air raid is launched to avert an American-led nuclear war in Korea sure to obliterate the peninsula. Thankfully, the Korean version of Tom Cruise saves the day from American nuclear war-mongers.

Did you know that the Japanese haven't changed in their rapacious desire to invade and conquer Korea since the Hideyoshi wars of the 1590s? The never-subtle Korean film industry is here to remind you of Japan's 425-year of anti-Korean fascist expansionism.

In my six-plus years in Korea, the Korean film industry is the most reliably anti-American segment of society I can think of. Compared to the government, military, or even academia or farmers, no Korean group is so consistently willing to envision wild conspiracies about the US manipulating Korea, condescending to its officials and exploiting OPCON for its own nefarious purposes. What I keep waiting to see is a Korean film that shows how the Combined Forces Command actually works, in response to something like the Cheonan sinking in 2010. But that would be a lot less fun to watch.

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We had to hop the fence of another farm to get to the exact filming spot for this location Arwen's chase scene. We parked Frogger on the dirt road and then scurried over to the area with the thick trees.

Film locations of the Misty Mountains were mostly aerial shots seen throughout the films. The Southern Alps were filmed for these shots and could be seen from the drive along the West Coast and all over the Otago region.

The drive out to the reservoir was a journey with gorgeous scenery on its own. We felt as though we were experiencing Rohan before we even arrived since the people of Rohan are known for their horsemanship

UPDATE 3/11/2017 - A reader, Liran, recently reached out to me looking to find the location of the famous "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard" meme before his trip to New Zealand. We knew it was filmed in this same general area. I tried to help him find it, but he figured it out on his own anyway! With the help of the woman who owns the land where Rohan was filmed, he recreated Legolas' famous scene (and more!). Well done, Liran! Check out his post and the accompanying videos here.

If we hadn't gone we never would have known the annoying prickers and burrs they inevitably had sticking to their clothing. They were attached all over our clothing after only a few minutes here. Wardrobe must have been having a fit!

Whenever I was asked why I wanted to visit New Zealand, my sarcastic response was "I just want to walk barefoot through Fangorn Forest." Okay, sarcasm is always a half-truth, right? I really did want to find where they filmed the hobbits getting picked up by Treebeard and the White Wizard meeting Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas. Well, we found it.

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