Film and Video Collections

Collection Items

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  All We are Saying, 1970

  All We are Saying documentary (15 minutes, 32 seconds) directed by Rev. Al Shands, III. The film documents the March Against Death, a major anti-Vietnam War protest march and gathering that took place in Washington, DC, on November 13-15, 1969. The film includes footage of Pete Seeger leading protesters in song at the Peace Service in Washington National Cathedral.
  
  Rev. Alfred Rives Shands, III (1928-2021), known most often as “Al,” was an Episcopal priest, film producer, author, art collector, and philanthropist who lived in Louisville, Kentucky. He was born in Washington, D.C., and lived with his parents in North Carolina and Delaware as a child. Shands received a BA in English literature from Princeton University and a master’s in divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary, where he was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1955. In 1967, Shands met and married Mary Norton Ballard in Washington, D.C. In 1969, Al started Alfred Shands Productions, Inc., a documentary production company which he operated until 1983. The Shands moved to Mary's hometown of Louisville in 1970.
  
  Credits
  (c) 1970 Alfred R. Shands
  Camera: George Voellmer, Albert Ihde, Terry Proch, Sandra Bradley
  Editor: Sandra Bradley
  Sound: Curt Wittig
  
  Sponsors of the film:
  Clergy and Laity Concerned about Viet Nam Inter-faith Committee
  Union of American Hebrew Congregations
  Executive Council of the Episcopal Church
  National Association of Laymen (Catholic)
  Produced with the cooperation of the Rev. Philip E. Wheaton, Director of Inter-American Communication and Action
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  Kentuckiana Scuba-Diving Club film, winter 1960

  Color film of the Kentuckiana Scuba-Diving Club diving in the iced-over Tucker Lake, Jefferson County, Kentucky, in the winter of 1960. Thomas L. Schmitt was a member of the club and captured the film. The footage includes scenes above and under the ice, and the divers exploring the lakebed.
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  Nature Closeups, Series 3: Creatures of the Night, circa 1951-1952

  This 16mm silent Kentucky wildlife film was produced by Walter (1892-1957) and Elizabeth Catterall Shackleton (1894-1982) from footage of nocturnal wildlife around their 200-acre home in the Sleepy Hollow area of Prospect, Kentucky. It was part of their first series produced under their company Shackleton Productions, incorporated in 1949. Wildlife filmed include birds, raccoons, a salamander, a mole, owls, and flying squirrels.
  
  Walter began naturalist documentary work as a bird and wildlife photographer. He attended an Audubon Screen Tour in the 1940s, which inspired him to take up motion picture film. For their films, Walter shot the footage, Elizabeth logged the shots, and the couple worked together to craft the story and splice together the film. Walter Shackleton showed their films in Louisville in the late 1940s and began touring for National Audubon Society sponsored showings around the United States in 1952.
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  Ohio Valley animals, 1940s-1960s

  Compilation of silent film footage of animals from film collections at the Filson Historical Society. The footage was exhibited in "Animals in the Archives" at the Filson from 2023-2024.