“Tower” - 1966 University of Texas Tower Shooting - Film History Livestream

“Tower” - 1966 University of Texas Tower Shooting - Film History Livestream

We invite you to join us for a screening of “Tower”, a documentary on the 1966 University of Texas tower shooting.

Our program will include some brief introductory comments (approximately 15-20 minutes) followed by a full screening of the film.

During our screening you are welcome to participate in a discussion of the film with your fellow participants via Zoom.

Tower is a 2016 American mostly-animated documentary film about the 1966 shootings at the University of Texas at Austin directed and produced by Keith Maitland.

The film follows the shooting from the perspectives of several survivors, recreating their recounts via actors filmed and later animated in rotoscoping. The film premiered on March 13, 2016, at South by Southwest, before receiving a limited release by Kino Lorber in the United States on September 28, 2016. It was later aired on television on the PBS series Independent Lens.

Summary

On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman rode the elevator to the top floor of the University of Texas Tower in Austin, Texas and opened fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes. When the gunshots were finally silenced, the toll included 16 dead, three dozen wounded, and a shaken nation left trying to understand what had happened. Archival footage is combined with rotoscopic animation in a dynamic, never-before-seen way to illustrate the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors.

Tower Official Trailer 1 (2016) - Documentary

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Your host for this program is Robert Kelleman, the founder/director of the non-profit community organizations Texas History & Culture and Washington, DC History & Culture.

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