{"id":17527,"date":"2014-10-21T03:43:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T08:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=17527"},"modified":"2024-06-11T16:25:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T20:25:29","slug":"pca-the-class-of-68-motion-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/10\/21\/pca-the-class-of-68-motion-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"PCA – The Class of ’68 – Motion Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, Tony Visco<\/strong><\/em><\/a> handed me a blast from our Alma mater\u2019s past \u2014 The Philadelphia College of Art\u2019s<\/strong> yearbook from 1968!<\/strong><\/em>\"motion-picture-list\"<\/a>This collection of film makers had special significance to me because I recognized one of the graduates immediately!<\/p>\n

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\"joe-dante\"<\/a>It’s Joe Dante!<\/strong><\/a> He directed the Gremlins<\/em><\/a> movies, the best part of The Twilight Zone<\/em><\/a> movie, and my favorite werewolf movie The Howling<\/em><\/a> among many others. I had convinced two fellow freshmen to come out with me to watch a double bill of The Howling<\/em> and another wolf-themed movie Wolfen<\/a><\/em> at one of the grindhouse<\/a> movie theaters operating on Chestnut Street a few blocks from The Philadelphia College of Art. I think it was all of our first experiences with a movie theater in the big city, and the crowd was pretty boisterous. I stuck around for both films while my buddies ditched the second feature finding the audience scarier than the movie! Fortunately Dante’s movie was first so they got to experience a cinematic triumph by one of our alumni!<\/p>\n

\"motion-picture-pic\"<\/a>This group with their exploitation movie posters and comic book tee-shirts look like the most fun group of graduates I posted thus far. It doesn’t look like they wasted a lot of time expounding on French cinema or watching a print of Potemkin<\/a> over and over again.<\/p>\n

Dante eventually went to work for Roger Corman<\/a> cutting together exploitation trailers and wound up directing. Judging from this photo, he was always aimed in that direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, Tony Visco handed me a blast from our Alma mater\u2019s past \u2014 The Philadelphia College of Art\u2019s yearbook from 1968!This collection of film makers had special significance to me because I recognized one of the graduates … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,104],"tags":[3279,130,3332,152,3326,5,3329,138,354,3669,137,118,3328,3327,3331,3202,3330,480,336],"class_list":["post-17527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-philadelphia","tag-3279","tag-art-school","tag-explotation","tag-film","tag-joe-dante","tag-joe-williams","tag-motion-picture","tag-pca","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-college-of-art","tag-photography","tag-roger-corman","tag-the-howling","tag-twilight-zone","tag-uarts","tag-university-of-the-arts","tag-usa","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4yH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17237,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/09\/09\/pca-the-class-of-68-photography\/","url_meta":{"origin":17527,"position":0},"title":"PCA \u2013 The Class of \u201968 – Photography","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"September 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"As I said last week, Tony Visco handed me a blast from our Alma mater's past -- The Philadelphia College of Art's yearbook from 1968! 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