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Re: movies and archives



Archives play crucial roles in LA Confidential and Chinatown. I've always
liked the following representative movies:

Archivists: The Nasty Girl
Records Managers: Brazil
Data Managers: Enemy of the State
Librarians: Name of the Rose
Archeologists: Raiders of the Lost Ark

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerrianne Schaad [mailto:GSchaad@UTSA.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 1:22 PM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: movies and archives
>
>
> Despite her drunkenness the lines in the movie The Mummy are good:
>
> Evelyn: "Look, I -- I may not be an explorer, or an
> adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr.
> O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am!" Rick O'Connell: "And
> what is that?"
> Evelyn: "I... am a librarian!"
> The Mummy (1999)
>
> Gerrianne Schaad
> UTSA Archives
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erika Gorder [mailto:gorder@RCI.RUTGERS.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 9:42 AM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: movies and archives
>
>
> She was the heroine of the movie and I believe she was a
> librarian.  The scene I remember is when she is drunk and is
> defending herself amidst the swashbucklers and adventurers.
> After she says her job is very important to the fate of
> mankind (or something like that)  she declares:  "I'm a Librarian!"
>
> Erika Gorder
> Rutgers University Archives
>
>
> Pope, Barbara wrote:
>
> > I know that there was an archivist in The Mummy that I saw
> a few years
> ago.
> > I can't remember what she did in relationship to her job
> and if it was
> > accurately portrayed or not.
> >
> > Barbara M. Pope, MLS
> > Reference Librarian
> > St. Louis College of Pharmacy
> > 4588 Parkview Place
> > St. Louis MO 63110
> > (314) 367-8700 x. 1001
> > FAX (314) 454-3382
> >
>
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