"EMERALD CITIES" of America, and The Future–it's almost here/2025!. (Hey! Maybe we should ban nuclear war ...before...ah... something...@%!)!!

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EMERALD CITIES (90 min., ©1983)

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Ed Nylund/Santa, hitches to Bay Area to find his daughter (©1983 L.L.PRODUCTIONS). Photo by Julie Schachter.

Actor Dick Richardson/Martian mask (created by artist Billy Hiebert (<https://www.billyhiebert.com/sculpture/>), and Ed Nylund/Santa. ©1983 L.L. PRODUCTIONS.

Carolyn Zaremba, at red curtain, prepares her Academy Award™ acceptance speech. Rick Schmidt (left) and Kelly Brock Boen hold curtain in ready for coming special effect. Co-Camera Bill Kimberlin (American Nitro) frames shot for opener. ©1983 L.L. PRODUCTIONS. Photo by Julie Schachter.

Shooting EMERALD CITIES in Trona/Death Valley, CA. Rick Schmidt (back), Bill Kimberlin focusing camera, and Nick Bertoni, on-locatwion sound recordist. © 1983 L.L. PRODUCTIONS. Photo by Julie Schachter.

FLIPPER (©1983 L.L. PRODUCTIONS. Photo by Kathleen Beeler). Joe Rees/TARGET VIDEO shooting singer Bruce Loose.

THE MUTANTS (©1983 L.L. PRODUCTIONS. Photo by Kathleen Beeler.). Sue White (center) and Sally Webster (behiind) sing as Ed Nylund/Santa dances.

Book NEW DARK AGES––How a Punk Movie EMERALD CITIES Got Its IMPROV. The moment/CASE STUDY how the movie was made/shot in Death Valley in December, 1979, finding a last-minute location, racing the short winter days. ALSO, chapter on the sage of my writing of FEATURE FILMMAKING AT USED-CAR PRICES, and it’s publication at Viking Penguin Books.

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Rick Schmidt. Photo by Suzanna Aguayo. ©2017 Light Video Books.

“The film [EMERALD CITIES], is Rick Schmidt’s provocative, and compassionate 'howl' at the gathering tide of nuclear lunacy as the mass media adjusts us to the 'new dark ages' of limited nuclear war. Schmidt‘s film style is blending the mad-cap humor of the Marx Brothers, a heady version of American surrealism, and iconoclastic inspiration, perhaps from Jean Luc Godard.” Vic Skolnick, CINEMA ARTS CENTRE, HUNTINGTON, NY.

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