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Do we have a treat for you, dearest readers and followers of the movies of Champaign, Urbana<\/strong>, and the cities beyond! Even though renovations continue to crawl along at a slug\u2019s pace on C-U Blogfidential<\/span><\/strong>, we have a master plan to fill out our Pages<\/strong> section \u2013 in essence, the virtual attic to our regular storehouse of reporting \u2013 in a manner that will serve you for years to come. Nearly a full year after we put forth our first heavily revised Page, \u201cPeriodicals du C-U<\/strong><\/a><\/span>,\u201d we are happy to introduce our first brand-new Page in several years, \u201cPlot Points du C-U<\/span><\/strong><\/a>,\u201d which you can play with and learn from at your leisure. It aggregates our \u201cConfidential Almanac<\/strong>\u201d entries that appear sporadically in the Calendar<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, assembled in chronological order and fully illustrated to provide a solid glance at how \u201cfilm culture\u201d is defined by our community. (The first Almanac appeared four years ago in May<\/span><\/a> with an item about WITH HONORS<\/strong>, which will coincidentally figure in a new Almanac a few weeks from now.) All capsules retain their CUBlog<\/span><\/strong> and external hot links so you can follow along to find out more about your favorite topics, while convenient cross-links within the Page itself provide easy navigation. So, let\u2019s give you a bit of homework to encourage you to follow along with Plot Points<\/span><\/a>! First, scroll through to locate the images included on this post and find out how they relate to downstate. Next, hit the closest \u201cBack to Top<\/strong>\u201d link and then click on \u201c1997<\/strong>\u201d so you may flash back to an era that laid groundwork for the active movie subculture of C-U today. Then, return to the fore of Plot Points once more and click on \u201c2001<\/strong>\u201d to reveal the near-forgotten beginning of our efforts in public showmanship that has culminated in the New Art Film Festival<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. Finally, zoom \u201cBack to Top\u201d and pick \u201c1976<\/strong>\u201d to get a crash course on an equally forgotten piece of east central Illinois<\/strong> lore that will soon park it in the pages of our upcoming C-U Confidential<\/span><\/strong> digest. If you dug this fit of discovery, we hope you will skim through C-U space and time as assembled in the Almanac as well as check back for updates. Enjoy your film history and share this<\/em> one far and wide!<\/p>\n ~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n ~~~~~<\/p>\n It was inevitable. We had to start putting all this popular and arcane knowledge to good use somehow. 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