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Today is Wednesday, Oct.
30, the 303rd day of 2019.
There are 62 days left in the
year.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2019
LOCAL
Showing off Oregon at EO Film Festival
Sol has now had the fi lm
translated into Japanese and
hopes to have screenings of
the fi lm in Japan in the near
future.
Presenting relatively
unknown Oregon treasures
and history, these fi lms
■ Two films
feature Oregon
stories that had not
yet been told
By Sabrina Thompson
accomplished the EOFF’s
goal of showcasing Oregon’s
unique beauty and stories.
Editor’s note: This is the
second of three stories The
Observer is publishing on the
2019 EOFF.
The Observer
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On Oct. 30, 1974, Muham-
mad Ali knocked out George
Foreman in the eighth
round of a 15-round bout in
Kinshasa, Zaire, known as
the “Rumble in the Jungle,”
to regain his world heavy-
weight title.
ON THIS DATE
In 1735, the second presi-
dent of the United States,
John Adams, was born in
Braintree, Massachusetts.
In 1961, the Soviet Party
Congress unanimously ap-
proved a resolution ordering
the removal of Josef Stalin’s
body from Lenin’s tomb.
In 1972, 45 people were
killed when an Illinois
Central Gulf commuter train
was struck from behind by
another train on Chicago’s
South Side.
In 1975, the New York
Daily News ran the headline
“Ford to City: Drop Dead” a
day after President Gerald
R. Ford said he would veto
any proposed federal bail-
out of New York City.
In 1979, President Carter
announced his choice of
federal appeals judge Shir-
ley Hufstedler to head the
Department of Education.
In 1985, schoolteacher-
astronaut Christa McAuliffe
witnessed the launch of the
space shuttle Challenger,
the same craft that would
carry her and six other crew
members to their deaths.
In 2001, Ukraine de-
stroyed its last nuclear mis-
sile silo, fulfi lling a pledge
to give up the vast nuclear
arsenal it had inherited after
the breakup of the former
Soviet Union.
In 2005, the body of Rosa
Parks arrived at the U.S.
Capitol, where the civil
rights icon became the fi rst
woman to lie in honor in the
Rotunda; President George
W. Bush and congressio-
nal leaders paused to lay
wreaths by her casket.
One of the goals of the 2019
Eastern Oregon Film Festival
was to showcase the state of
Oregon and the beauty and
history the area has to offer.
An afternoon screening at
Beckie’s Studio of Dance on
Saturday, day three of the fes-
tival, showed two fi lms that
explored parts of the state
and the stories that have
been waiting to be told.
In a short documentary,
H. Nelson Tracey, an LA-
based director and editor,
captured the beautiful land-
scape on the Oregon-Idaho
border. His fi lm, titled “Picture
Jasper,” tells the story of Steve
Shultz, who has spent his life
mining picture jasper, a rare
rock that mirrors the area’s
landscape.
Tracey went with Shultz
and his mining partner, Peter
Henry, out to Jackpot, just
outside of Marsing, Idaho,
to record the diffi culty that
comes with fi nding quality
speciments of picture jasper.
Tracey was happy to see a
region he had never been to
and took up the opportunity
for travel when it presented
itself. Tracey was also excited
to share the history and hid-
den gem of the area.
“As a fi lmmaker the best
way to share Shultz’s knowl-
edge is to show him in his
world, and show him doing
what he loves to do,” Tracey
said.
Though Tracey had never
been to La Grande before, he
applied to be a part of EOFF
because it was the closest
festival to the area in which
his fi lm takes place.
“The fi lm is about Eastern
Oregon, so why not show it
at the Eastern Oregon Film
Festival?” Tracey said.
Sabrina Thompson/ The Observer
Ilana Sol, and H. Nelson Tracey, right, share their inspi-
rations and process Saturday during a Q&A session
following their fi lm screening during the Eastern Oregon
Film Festival in La Grande.
The full-length feature that
was also shown during the
afternoon block in the festival
took viewers to the southern
Oregon Coast. Nineteen miles
outside of the town is the only
place on the U.S. mainland
that was bombed by an air
pilot during World War II.
“Samurai in the Oregon Sky”
tells the story of Nobuo Fu-
jita and the mission that few
know about.
On Sept. 9, 1942, Fujita
fl ew over Brookings and
dropped a bomb in the forest.
The mission was a failure as
it caused little physical dam-
age, and many in the United
States never heard about the
bombing. However, 20 years
later, men who were part of
Brookings’ Junior Chamber
of Commerce invited the
Japanese pilot back to the
town. This gesture, while
controversial, helped in
repairing U.S. and Japanese
relationships after WWII.
The fi lm, directed by
Ilana Sol, combines archi-
val footage, animation and
current day interviews with
the subjects of the story. It
depicts the events lead-
ing up to Fujita’s missions
through the reconciliation
and his visits to Oregon. Sol,
who works as an archival
researcher for other docu-
mentary fi lmmakers, saw
this as an opportunity to tell
a story about Oregon that
few people know.
“There are still people in
Brookings who get upset
about it all,” Sol said. “But
the fi lm is about people. It’s
not about politics, it’s about
bringing people together.”
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