For today's film session, we will MOSTLY leave the middle 1970s behind us and try to embrace the new and scary world of the late 1970s. A time of massive social change in Blazerville - full of historic firsts and the uprooting of long established and comforting routines. Some of the Blazers will begin a journey that requires them to turn their backs on the ancestral homeland in search of a new life far from the familiar stomping grounds of their youth. And for me... portable VHS cameras are on the horizon.
As we watch the footage unfolding, it becomes painfully obvious that the changes were a little too difficult to completely embrace on the first attempt. We continue to find scattered images of an earlier period with Don, Hanklin and Paul popping up during the course of this video. The past is still fresh in our minds and difficult to ignore. It's two steps forward and one step back. And since those three members (just mentioned) of the golden era were now no longer a 'going concern' in Blazerville after the watershed year of 1975 (in fact Hanklin and Paul vanished from the landscape for the next 30 years) we must face the fact that a large portion of the past will simply always be seeping into the present whether we like it or not.
For today's film session, we will MOSTLY leave the middle 1970s behind us and try to embrace the new and scary world of the late 1970s. A time of massive social change in Blazerville - full of historic firsts and the uprooting of long established and comforting routines. Some of the Blazers will begin a journey that requires them to turn their backs on the ancestral homeland in search of a new life far from the familiar stomping grounds of their youth. And for me... portable VHS cameras are on the horizon.
As we watch the footage unfolding, it becomes painfully obvious that the changes were a little too difficult to completely embrace on the first attempt. We continue to find scattered images of an earlier period with Don, Hanklin and Paul popping up during the course of this video. The past is still fresh in our minds and difficult to ignore. It's two steps forward and one step back. And since those three members (just mentioned) of the golden era were now no longer a 'going concern' in Blazerville after the watershed year of 1975 (in fact Hanklin and Paul vanished from the landscape for the next 30 years) we must face the fact that a large portion of the past will simply always be seeping into the present whether we like it or not.
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