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The Unitarian religion began in the 1500s in Transylvaniaafter the Prote
stant Reformation when a group of theologists defined the deity as a &ldqu
o\;unity&rdquo\; rather than the previously called &ldquo\;trinity.&rdquo\
; It was quite remarkable when its doctrine embraced a whole spectrum of b
elievers, from those of all faiths to the agnostics and atheists. \; S
ome two or three decades ago, when the political atmosphere in Transylvani
a (now part of Romania) threatened the Unitarians still in Transylvania, t
he Unitarian-Universalists&rsquo\; headquarters in Boston created a &ldquo
\;partner church&rdquo\; program where some individual Unitarian Churches
in America took a partner church in Transylvania, and through joint visits
and financial assistance helped their partner church. The UnitarianChurch
in Westport, CT, became the partner church to that of the small villageof
Alsoboldogfalvain Transylvaniaand sponsored a trip to it. Some ten persons
traveled together to spend ten days in Alsoboldogflava, and one of its me
mbers, Sumner Jules Glimcher, went along and recorded the trip. This docum
entary is a record of that event. This film is a turning back of the clock
to one hundred years ago and how people in this village lived as most Ame
ricans did around the year 1900. The travelers also visited the birthplace
of Vlad the Impaler, the person who became the model for Dracula. We see
the primitive traffic jams of fifty cows each morning and afternoon as the
y travel to the nearby hills for forage\; the horses and wagons before the
arrival of the automobile, and the simple life of an agricultural communi
ty. The film concludes with a visit to a nearby gypsy community as they pa
rty and dance on a locals hillside. Interviews with locals show a lifestyl
e long disappeared in the USA.
Sumner Jules Glimcher, now profe
ssor emeritus from NYU, began his career as a page at NBC after graduating
from college and spent his first six years there in a variety of jobs ran
ging from production manager to assistant director to manager of network o
perations. \;He then spent three years in Munichat Radio Free Europe,
returned to the USand created the first independent voiced international n
ews service, the precursor of CNN. \;He became manager of foreign news
for WOR &\; RKO General\; \;associate producer in charge of intern
ational acquisitions at NET (National Educational Television, the precurso
r of PBS)\; \;manager of the Center for Mass Communication at Columbia
University\; \;and president of Mass Communications, Inc. \;In 198
8 he was appointed director of the Department of Film, Video &\; Broadc
asting at NYU&rsquo\;s Schoolof Continuing Education, and served until his
early retirement in 1996. \;He then started a new company, Westminste
r Productions, Inc., dedicated to creating independent documentaries, and
has produced a number of new films since then. \; His academic career
also included service as deputy chair of the Department of Film at Columbi
aUniversity&rsquo\;s GraduateSchoolof the Arts for ten years, and he also
taught for one year at Harvard, his alma mater. \;His textbook, MO
VIE MAKING: A Guide to Film Production, was adopted at a number of un
iversities and became a best seller. \;He served the president of Harv
ard as a film consultant, and was also a consultant to the United Nations,
and for twenty years, to the Consulate General of Japan. \;He lecture
s on luxury cruise liners, and has given his workshop &ldquo\;How to Creat
e a Documentary of Your Cruise&rdquo\; on eleven major cruise liners in th
e past few years. \;His films have been awarded more than three dozen
major national and international awards.
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Produced &\; Moderated by Sumner
Jules Glimcher