[303rd-Talk] (Fwd) Hell's Angels video

[Gary Moncur]

Please read the note below from Dr. Williams regarding the Old 
Segundo Video.
Gary

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Date sent:	Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:49:24 -0600
From:	"Dr. Vernon L. Williams" <vwilliams at acu.edu>
Subject:	Hell's Angels video and three photos found in Eng


Dear Gary,

I came across some questions about the video. Someone thought the 
new film on the 303rd I've just finished was just a copy of something 
from the National Archives. They may be thinking of the new digital 
Target for Today. Hell's Angels: The 303rd in the Battle for Europe 
is a new work that I have built using materials from a variety of 
places. I wrote the script, used a narrator who comes from the 
public radio sector, included clips from some of my interviews with 
303rd men, and still photos from the National Archives and private 
collections where I generated motions for their use in the film. I 
used original music with the rights purchased for this film. I 
pieced together some of the 303rd portions of Target for Today for my 
section on missions, and generally used footage from a variety of 
sources, most of which are in various film records in the National 
Archives. All together it is an original piece of work of producing 
and editing that is not found anywhere else. I hope you have had 
time to watch the copy I sent you and hope you liked it. I have 
tentative plans to do a series of interviews in the Molesworth area 
in England in late July and early August next summer and plan to do 
additional 303rd ground and air crew interviews in the US as well.I 
hope to finish up with a new 2007 film on Molesworth, tentatively to 
be titled The Molesworth Story. It will be a more comprehensive 
story of life at Molesworth and in the villages nearby. The content 
will be governed by the interviews yet to be done. Proceeds from the 
current film and the Molesworth Story will be used in our non-profit 
efforts to add to the research in the East Anglia Air War Project.As 
you know, we are on a rapidly decreasing deadline to get done what is 
possible in the time we have left. No part of the proceeds have been 
diverted for personal gain and no salaries have been paid to anyone, 
with the sole exception of the narrator. In fact the 303rd film 
(and others) have been possible because of these sales to the public 
and some financial contributions made by myself and others who 
believe in the Project, together with some support from the 
Department of History in the form of mailing services and some travel 
expenses.Please spread the news around whenever you can. And 
thanks for your assistance in what we have done so far.

I was going through some images I copied in England in June 2005 and 
discovered that I had forgotten that three of them were of a 303rd 
wreck located just north of Bedford. The British man who had these 
took me out to the meadow area where the crash occurred. He 
remembered the event as a young boy. I thought you might like to 
have copies of them. You may already have them, but just in 
case.....I am sending them in three separate emails. Here is the 
first.

Best wishes for the holidays,

Vernon


Dr. Vernon L. Williams

Professor of History
Vice President, Texas Oral History Association
Editor, Red River Valley Historical Journal
Director, East Anglia Air War Project
Web Site:www.acu.edu/anglia

Department of History
ACU Box 28130
Abilene Christian University
Abilene, TX 79699-8130

Office Phone: (325) 674-2150
FAX: (325) 674-2369
Email: vwilliams at acu.edu -
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