A Day With Michael Newell

Short clips from a visit with Mike in Sherman Connecticut on a Spring day in 1989. We hung around the Newell home in Sherman and then drove around town to revisit some of places we knew so well as kids including; The Sherman Town Park, Edmonds Farm, and the site of the old Red Riders clubhouse.
Mike and I watched these clips and the rest of the raw footage the same day we shot it.
He liked the little video magic bit that we created on the camera and we also had objects moving around the desk by themselves, but they never made the final cut.
Over the the course of the year I like to play the videos to see and hear Mike again.

The Kinks were right, celluloid heroes (and friends) never really die...

All of the raw footage of Mike in Sherman and Cape Cod still exists 17 years later.
There is a second video that was produced in 1989, but never published, called "An Autumn Afternoon" featuring Mike, Henry Edmonds, Susan Ward and me. The Frisbee footage and some interior
shots from this production were included in Mike's Memorial Video.

I haven't seen "Autumn" since 1992, so it's going to be bitter-sweet, to say the least, as I plan to go through it all of the video I have, to put together more "Mike on Digital Video".
I think he would enjoy knowing his friends not only remember him, but can see and hear him again.

Mike remains a youthful 40 years-old as the remaining members class of 1968 blow through the 60's sound barrier and accelerate onward...

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