Post by Mary Ellen Byrne on Apr 4, 2012 19:48:38 GMT -5
. . .but hopefully not too late!
Work has been tumultuous over the course of this week and I missed posting to mark Connie's Anniversary.
Although, Connie was on my mind every free minute (but there weren't many
)
Anyhow, there is one revelation I came to very early on yesterday. The one thing I really ache for that I think was lost to the world by Connie's untimely death was the great historian Connie would have been had he lived.
Here was a man who was born into a world that didn't even have movies yet. He lived his first seven years celluloid free. When he got into acting, the world he found himself in was silent film and he was a success at that.
When sound technology was invented, Connie made a successful transition to that world and continued to be a star!
At the time he died, he had been in the world of film at every major turning point the medium ever took. Can you imagine the wealth of historical information Connie would have had to share with a class!
Now I don't think I'd have said this to Connie to his face. I think he might take it that I was calling him old. But what a treasure he would have been to young up and coming filmmakers. I really don't think there is any question about any era in movie history Connie could not have answered with a personal story!
I would love to have seen him as a professor or guest lecture at an Oxford film history class in the '60s or '70s.
Really, in a case like Connie's, you've got to stop and realize the Almighty knows what He's doing even if it doesn't look like it but man all that my generation lost because God chose to take Connie when he did! **sight**
Work has been tumultuous over the course of this week and I missed posting to mark Connie's Anniversary.
Although, Connie was on my mind every free minute (but there weren't many
)Anyhow, there is one revelation I came to very early on yesterday. The one thing I really ache for that I think was lost to the world by Connie's untimely death was the great historian Connie would have been had he lived.
Here was a man who was born into a world that didn't even have movies yet. He lived his first seven years celluloid free. When he got into acting, the world he found himself in was silent film and he was a success at that.
When sound technology was invented, Connie made a successful transition to that world and continued to be a star!
At the time he died, he had been in the world of film at every major turning point the medium ever took. Can you imagine the wealth of historical information Connie would have had to share with a class!
Now I don't think I'd have said this to Connie to his face. I think he might take it that I was calling him old. But what a treasure he would have been to young up and coming filmmakers. I really don't think there is any question about any era in movie history Connie could not have answered with a personal story!
I would love to have seen him as a professor or guest lecture at an Oxford film history class in the '60s or '70s.
Really, in a case like Connie's, you've got to stop and realize the Almighty knows what He's doing even if it doesn't look like it but man all that my generation lost because God chose to take Connie when he did! **sight**
