Student Projects Using the Home Movie Archive

Student Video Essays: Fall 2006

This current batch of home movie video essays were created by students in the UMass Lowell Graduate School Education as part Dr. Pat Fontaine's course on Curriculum and Instruction. [These require a Flash Video Player.]

  1. The United States of Consumption: Consumerism in Post War Armerica
    By Michelle Ryan

  2. A Return to Tradtion: Weddings Post WWII
    By Rebecca Felton, Gregory Haas, & Michael Neagle
    6:09 minutes

  • Women in the 1950s
    By Paty Lane and Erin Clarke
    5:53 minutes

  • Veterans
    By Adam Mitchell
    6:45 minutes

    • Student Video Essays: Fall 2005

    The Need to be Free: How the Automobile Changed Middle Class America
    Benjiman Bythewood and Cheryl Rayner
    (9:54 min.)

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    		 Superfriends
    Rob Breunig and Chris Spraker
    (12:00 min.)


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    That 70's Video Essay
    Ken Welch and Matt Lancelotta
    (10:53 min.)


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    		 Smoking
    Jennie Porter and Aaron McNabb
    (10:15 min.)


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    Winter and the Family
    James Meile and Nate Cote
    (10:53 min.)


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    		 American Values through Children at Play
    Brian Legg and Ryan Keefe
    (10:53 min.)


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    Student Video Essays: Spring 2005

    The Public's Glorification of War and the Military
    Sean Ferrell,Andrew Nickerson,Peter Udstuen
    (9:00 min.)

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    		 From the Cradle to the Nave
    Colleen Bordieri and Rich Ferrell
    (13:00 min.)

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    The Cultural Love of Dancing
    Brandon Holmes and Alice Siotas
    (12:00 min.)


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    		 Halloween
    Erin Clarke and Erin Dennehy
    (9:30 min.)


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    What Were We Thinking? A Guide to 1980's Fashion
    Jonathan Cogswell and Ashley Makevich
    (9:10 min.)

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