University of Florida, Magic Tower (1966) part 1

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Production Number 22
Production Title: The Magic Tower
Production date: 1966
Color / Sound
Total running time: 00:29:00
Presented by: University of Florida Alumni Association, Hon. Stephen C. O"Connell, President, Ernest R. Currie, Television Chairman
Featuring: Evelyn Patrick Silvers, Buddy Jacobs
Written by: John Paul Jones, Professor of Journalism
Producer: Harold Dillinger, Alumni Association Field Secretary
Director: Dwight Godwin, Manager of Photographic Services, University of Florida
Photographed by: John Kucer, Dwight Godwin, Jim Moffet
Music by: UF Symphony Orchestra and UF Band
Available in VHS, DVD, and Sony DV-cam.
Derived from 16 mm film.
The Magic Tower is a promotional film intended for a general audience.
The film begins with Buddy Jacobs, the student body president in 1966-1967, and the introduction of Evelyn Patrick Silvers, a graduate of the University of Florida in 1953, and wife of comedian Phil Silvers. The "Magic Tower" is Century Tower and its symbolic significance. The film focuses on the changes in the campus as seen in the many new buildings and the greater number of students since the time when Evelyn Patrick Silvers was a student.

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