Here is an excerpt from the National Geographic Society television special Bushmen of the Kalahari (1974), featuring John Marshall and associates at the old DER office on Dane Street in Somerville, Massachusetts. Original air date: May 17th, 1974. More info on IMDB.
Fun fact: This special was narrated by Leslie Nielsen and written by a man named Bud Wiser.
In October 2024, DER Executive Director Alice Apley and Technical and Creative Director Frank Aveni had the honor of traveling to southern Africa as part of a film repatriation initiative.
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In collaboration with the Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) at UC Berkeley and 25 participating federally funded centers for area studies at universities across the country, DER launched an online film program for K-12 teachers in 2023 with the dual goals of providing teachers with resources and tools to promote film literacy and introducing K-12 resource centers and teachers to the DER catalog.
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