AFI -- "House of Frankenstein" (w/Count Gore De Vol):
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Description of Pictures: Count Gore De Vol 40th Anniversary Celebration!
Re-Presenting the Original Creature Feature: HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN
In person: Count Gore De Vol
TV personality Dick Dyszel introduced his alter ego Count Gore De Vol on Channel 20's CREATURE FEATURE 40 years ago on February 3, 1973. Dyszel, who already hosted local children's programming as Bozo the Clown and Captain 20, created the Count in an attempt to do something "more adult," and for his debut, presented 1944's HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, a distant sequel to James Whale's landmark 1931 film, now a "monster rally" ensemble piece featuring, not only the Frankenstein monster (Glenn Strange), but Dracula (John Carradine) and the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney, Jr.), with a new mad scientist (perplexingly, the original FRANKENSTEIN star Boris Karloff) and his hunchback assistant (J. Carrol Naish) stirring up trouble. So-bad-it's-good fun, which, paired with the Count's cheeky hosting, became something truly unique. In the spirit of the original broadcasts, this special, one-time-only celebration of an entertainment pioneer will feature the Count hosting on stage, with interactive intermissions and lots of ghoulish good fun and surprises in store.
DIR Erle C. Kenton; SCR Edward T. Lowe, Jr.; PROD Paul Malvern. US, 1944, b&w, 71 min. NOT RATED
Co-presented with the Spooky Movie International Horror Film Festival (spookyfest.com).
Folks introduced as part of the program included Arch Campbell, Eleanor Herman, and "Dr. Sarcofiguy" (John Dimes).
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Campbell, Arch appears on:
2019_06_13A1_Network AFI and Washington Monthly -- Fourth Estate Film Series -- "Network" (w/Beth Reinhard, Clarence Page, Arch Campbell, and Paul Glastris)
2018_MD_Sarcofiguy_180825 AFI -- "The Black Cat" and "Re-Animator" (w/Doctor Sarcofiguy and Arch Campbell)
2016_DC_Hollywood_161105 Newseum -- Inside Media w/Arch Campbell, Ann Hornaday and Bill Newcott ("Hollywood's White House")
2015_DC_10Movies_150622 Newseum & AARP -- 10 Movies That Shaped the Boomers (w/Arch Campbell, Ann Hornaday and Bill Newcott)
2015_MD_Rocky_Horror_151017 AFI -- Spooky Movie Intl Horror Film Festival -- "Rocky Horror Picture Show" (w/Peaches Christ and DC All Star Shadowcast) -- All except performance
2014_MD_Exists_141010 AFI -- Spooky Movie Intl Horror Film Festival -- "Exists" (w/Eduardo Sanchez, Jamie Nash)
2013_MD_Blacula_131019 AFI -- Spooky Movie Intl Horror Film Festival -- "Scream Blacula Scream" (w/Count Gore De Vol)
2013_MD_Disco_Dan_131019 AFI -- "Legend of Cool Disco Dan" (w/Roger Gastman, Joseph Pattisall, Iley Brown, and Cool "Disco" Dan)
2013_MD_Sarcofiguy_131013 AFI -- Spooky Movie Intl Horror Film Festival -- "Bald Headed Blues: A Doctormentary on Sarcofiguy" (w/John Dimes and CW Prather)
2016_MD_UMd_Heavy_MetalX MD -- College Park -- UMd Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Exhibit: Heavy Metal Parking Lot and the Jeff Krulik Collection
2017_MD_Surprise_171008 AFI -- Spooky Movie Intl Horror Film Festival -- Surprise Screening of "Butterfly Kisses" (w/Erik Kristopher Myers, Kenny Johnson, Cory Okouchi, and Stacie Jones Gentzler)
2017_MD_Halloween_171006 AFI -- Spooky Movie Intl Horror Film Festival -- "Halloween Video Mixtape: A Wraith Films Anthology"
2015_MD_Rocky_Horror_151017 AFI -- Spooky Movie Intl Horror Film Festival -- "Rocky Horror Picture Show" (w/Peaches Christ and DC All Star Shadowcast) -- All except performance
2013 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000 and Nikon D600.
Trips this year:
three Civil War Trust conferences (Memphis, TN, Jackson, MS [to which I added a week to to visit sites in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee], and Richmond, VA), and
my 8th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Nevada and California).
Ego Strokes: Aviva Kempner used my photo of her as her author photo in Larry Ruttman's "American Jews & America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball" book.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 570,000.