Cinematographer, George Silano to Screen Rare, Historical Lost Footage in Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: A Personal Portrait at Gateway Community College

Cinematographer, George Silano to Screen Rare, Historical Lost Footage in

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: A Personal Portrait at Gateway Community College

(New Haven) – January 27, 2014 – Gateway Community College (GCC) will host a special screening of lost footage from December of 1965 film of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta in their Atlanta home. The film, entitled Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: A Personal Portrait, was filmed by North Haven resident and Emmy Award winning cinematographer, George Silano.

The exclusive footage was taken during an interview with King over the course of a week just after he received the Nobel Peace Prize, and sat unused for decades until Silano—the only surviving member of the original film crew originally hired by producer Arnold Michaelis—decided to look for it; a pursuit that led him to the University of Georgia where the film had been archived after Michaelis’ death in 1997. 

The rarely seen, 60 minute interview shows Dr. King in a more intimate light, speaking candidly about his position, the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War, and in conversation with his wife Coretta. Silano premiered the film held a year ago at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton and has limited public viewings since.

George Silano will speak and present the special screening of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., A Personal Portrait at Gateway Community College on Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 from 2pm-3pm in the college’s community room (N100), and is open to the public through the generosity of the  Esther Hazeltine Schivonne Cultural Fund and the GCC Campus Activities Board.