On the production front we sent a crew out into the cold of the Berkshires to pick up some snow-covered footage of Mount Greylock. That visitors center-bound film is about to hit the edit room, and we got some nice imagery from the windy summit, a ski race down the side, and the rolling hills surrounding the tallest mountain in Massachusetts.
We had trips to San Francisco and Minneapolis for our film exploring the new battlefiled of cyberspace, which features some of the leading experts in the digital arena. Another outing later this month to Russia, Estonia and Germany is in the works to get the international angle on a truly global story that continues to unfold. This project was born out of a recent exhibit we did for the International Spy Museum in DC (always worth a trip if you're in the capitol city), and is just about as relevant, and hidden, as can be.
We had our first interview for the film we're making for The 9/11 Memorial Museum with former Governor George Pataki in New York. He talked about his experience and insights on September 11th and in the days that followed. Over the next year we'll be speaking to several other high-profile political figures about their memories of the event. Already we can tell this fill be a powerful film, serving both as a glimpse into the personal lives of very public individuals at a trying time in US history, but also as an important historical record of events.
We've visited several other political celebrities as well, for a film to be featured with a collection of decorative arts from the White House at the Smithsonian Museum of Art. First daughters Lynda Bird Johnson Robb and Patricia Nixon Cox both spoke with us about their memories of private and public life in the White House.
Two projects near the finish line: The Waterworks Museum here in Boston opens on Sunday, March 27th. If you're in town drop by and get pumped. The Laogai Research Foundation in DC opens its museums' doors on April 7th, also worth a trip.
In other news, the trilogy of Making Sense of Place films produced in association with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy will be rebroadcast in March on WGBH's WORLD Channel. Tune in.
Of course work continues on all our other projects, including a new arrival for the Utah Natural History Museum, and even though, at the moment, the snow is melting and the days appear to be growing warmer and longer, we all know New England too well to be fooled. There's a little more winter to come, so we'll keep in motion.
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