University of Florida, Magic Tower (1966) part 2

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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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• 1966

[Arlyskin]

The helicopter tour is amazing but what is really captivating for me is the speech on the Knowledge Explosion...

[gg32068]

UF when Steve Spurrier was still playing. The campus is just as it was when I began UF in the fall of 1968. I especailly loved seeing the old stadium as it was when I was there, and can see my old dorm in the NE corner of the clip. On fall afternoons, the UF band would practice in the field north of the stadium and west of my dorm window. There was no AC back then, the windows were always open, but being able to listen to the band practice their routines while studying was a real treat.

[gg32068]

Oh my, I remember Genisys - everything was changing over to computer and puinch cards! I still have my 1st student ID with the punch holes in it. I remember how intimidated most of the students were by this change back then. Computers? I was still using a slide rule! LOL

[DwightDG]

I am a little biased in my response to this video - My father, Dwight Godwin, was the cinematographer for it.

I was about 9 years old when it was filmed and I remember it well as both my brother, Tony, and I got to help. It was very exciting to have a helicopter landing on campus, and it was just a great day over all.

Dwight D. Godwin

Seymour, CT