[altroots] Fwd: Kent Moorhead, re: PBS showing

From Kent Moorhead, 
Roots friends.  The following is from my friend Kent Moorhead, independent film 
maker based in Oxford and Sweden.  I often send Roots information to Kent, who 
will most likely join us at AM one of these days.
Rebecca Jernigan
 Kmoorh@xxxxxxx wrote:
Hi, everyone

This is a mass email to a wide circle of friends and acquaintances who I 
thought would be interested to know that I will have a film appearing on 
local PBS stations at the end of the month. The film is called "The Battle 
of Brices Crossroads" and it is thirty minutes long. It will appear on 
Mississippi ETV after the Ken Burns documentary at 9:30 pm on Wednesday, 
September 25th, and for those in the reach of the Memphis PBS station, it 
will be on WKNO on Thursday September 26th at 9:30 pm, with a repeat later 
that night (really the next morning) at 2:30 am. 


The Battle of Brices Crossroads was a small but significant Civil War 
Battle fought by Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest on July 10, 1864. 
The film was made for the Brices Crossroads Battlefield Visitors Center and 
before now it hasn't been shown outside of the Visitors Center in Baldywn, 
Mississippi. 

Shelby Foote features in both a prologue and epilogue to the film, in 
which he introduces the main characters, and explains the significance of the 
battle. As Shelby Foote says at the end of the film, "It has a vividness 
and a drama that draws you to it. It's a small battle, there's less than ten 
thousand men involved and yet it has a tremendous dramatic impact -- it has a 
clarity to it, such as you get when you look through the wrong end of a 
telescope. Its small but its quite vivid and clear. And that's 
characteristic of Brices Crossroads. . . ."

Shelby Foote is also allowing us to quote him as follows for publicity 
for the film --

I think itâ??s a skillful and accurate re-enactment of what happened at 
Brices Crossroads. It was one of the best Civil War things Iâ??ve seen.


So I hope you have a chance to tune in. For those of you outside this 
viewing area, the film has not yet been sold to other regional PBS stations, 
so you'll have to ask me for a copy if you're interested.

Thanks all,

Kent


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