DuQuoin, IL Scenes Part One E. Lambert Productions, in cooperation with The Perry County Historical Society, takes you back to a time when Coal was King in Southern Illinois. Alongside mining, a farming/factory industry supported a booming community where Main Street was still the heart of the town. Though a silent picture, Life in DuQuoin provides a unique glimpse into the ways of a different people, place, and time. A place where service stations employed attendants to check the oil and top off the tank for patrons rolling in.A people who, just for a moment, were caught up in a happy afternoon at the end of a long Great Depression just before the dawn of a second Great War.at a time when segregation still raged throughout the South in the Forty-Eight United States of America.Before a television in every home, before the interstate, before cellular telephones, before Wal-Mart, before satellites, before today.there was Life in DuQuoin. From what I can determine by the stage of the leaves on the trees, classes in session and the overall seasonal dress of the 1940 DuQuoin residents, this footage may have been shot in September of that year. Observe the camera technique; the same documentary style of filming used in Pinckneyville Scenes 1951 persists. Most likely this film was produced by the same business means as the early Pinckneyville motion picture. A traveling Hollywood studio would stop by various towns with movie theaters. (In Pinckneyvilles case, The Capitol and in …
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In Mexico, nothing goes as planned! Mexicos most notorious drug lord schools a naive journalist as to the secrets behind the cartels success. EL CARTEL arrives May 12th from Universal/Vivendi, Triumphant Entertainment, & Polychrome Pictures. STARRING: Jose Luis Franco, Freddy Douglas, Mauricio Islas, Tania Arredondo, Miguel Rodarte, Gustavo Sanchez Parra, Howard Gibson, Rafael Olivera, Khotan Fernandez, Hector Kotsifakis, Jose Sefami, Alejandro de la Madrid, Eduardo Victoria, Alfonso Dosal and Tom Martino. WRITTEN & DIRECTED by: Brian J. Bagley. TAGS: el cartel, mexico, films, trailers, movies, El Cartel, DVD, 2009, hot, best, EL CARTEL, crime, mexican, latino, independent film, spanish, espanol, drug lord, drugs, drug trafficking, journalist, reporter, new, cartels, Cartels, CARTELS, gangsters, mafia
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