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Normal, IL, movie-maker R.C. Raycraft releases his rock documentary INCIDENT AT KICKAPOO CREEK a full 40 years after the music festival “Incident at Kickapoo Creek” originally took place, starting at the Normal Theater on Monday, May 31, 2010.

A series of presentations to showcase the creative, non-commercial output of post-World War II filmmakers in Europe to help the intercontinental “Marshall Plan” meet its goals will be held September 24-26, 2009, on the Unviersity of Illinois campus under the title, “Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan, 1948–1953,” hosted by Sandra Schulberg.

Press release on the Web site of the University of Southern California about a $2 million donation from Playboy founder Hugh Hefner that will establish a new exhibition space and archive in their School of Cinematic Arts. Plus, your editor bitches about the lack of a film school at the University of Illinois. Again.

Coming Soon: THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL and WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE at Normal Theater, Normal, IL (10/25-28/07), NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) at Avon Theatre, Decatur, IL (10/26/07), Community Planning Month Film Festival at Urbana City Council Chambers, Urbana IL (10/28/07), CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE at Avon Theatre, Decatur, IL (10/31/07), and “Film Exposed” workshop at 131 GSLIS Building, UIUC, Champaign, IL (11/2/07).

WILL-TV and the University of Illinois Library once again sponsor “Home Movie Day,” a celebration of amateur small-gague cinema, at the WILL studios on Saturday, August 11, 2007, 1 p.m.

Article in Champaign daily The News-Gazette about the “Audio-Visual Self-Assessment Program,” an initiative by the University of Illinois Library to develop a computerized system that will aid collectors and archivists in analyzing media holdings.

WILL-TV and the University of Illinois Library sponsor “Home Movie Day,” a celebration of amateur small-gague cinema, at the WILL studios on Saturday, August 12, 2006, 1 p.m.