Treasures from the Yale Film Archive: MAYDAY: AN EVENING WITH JOSH MORTON

Event time: 
Friday, May 1, 2020 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Whitney Humanities Center (WALL53), Auditorium See map
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Join us for the preservation premiere of MAYDAY to mark the 50th anniversary of the New Haven Black Panther trials, with May 1st Media filmmaker and Yale alumnus Josh Morton in person.

In the spring of 1970, thousand of protesters descended on New Haven to demonstrate against the trial of Black Panther members for the murder of suspected FBI informant Alex Rackley. Led by radical luminaries Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Tom Hayden, the demonstrators converged on the New Haven Green to vent their anger and shut Yale down. Yale President Kingman Brewster commissioned a small group of Yale students to document the demonstrations, resulting in the 22-minute black-and-white film MAYDAY.

MAYDAY was preserved from an original 16mm print and restored optical soundtrack by the Yale Film Study Center in 2016. The film’s preservation premiere is presented as part of the series “Treasures from the Yale Film Archive” by the Film Study Center and Films at the Whitney with support from Paul L. Joskow.

Admission: 
Free

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