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Contributed by: Luis Guereca on 11/27/2007

If you didn't have a chance to catch the screening of Oxnard 1961 during this year's film festival (the screening was completely sold out by showtime), then get ready for a special holiday showing of this truely historical and entertaining documentary film.

Due to popular demand, there will be a special encore screening of Oxnard 1961 on Thursday, December 6 at Plaza Cinemas 14 in Downtown Oxnard starting at 7 pm. Advanced tickets are now available for $7 each at the Plaza Cinemas 14 box office, only. There will be no online ticket sales for this screening.

Oxnard 1961 was only shown a handful of times back in the early 60's. Since then, the 16mm print of the film has been locked away in its dust proof canisters, never seeing the light of day, until now. The 90 minute film captures life in Oxnard during 1961. It is an extremely effective presentation of the city and all its activities during that year, including street scenes, business operations, parks, community centers, restaurants, council meetings, and much more.

Under the headline, This Is Oxnard, this is what the Press Courier had to say about the film in an article written back in November 1962.

One fact that makes the film good is that it is not wholly confined to the best and most laudatory facts about Oxnard. There are scenes of the worst things in and about town, and of businesses that failed. These have their proper place, and no story of a city is good that ignores those facts that need attention, and which governments and citizens are likely to ignore. Somehow this film, representing an enourmous amount of thought, time and energy, and skillful photography, must be preserved in the archives of Oxnard. Even ten years from now, it will be a picture to remind us that there is a city here that grows with remarkable speed, and it is good to preserve it as it was in 1961.

There will be a Q&A session with Dr. Ted Greathouse, director of Oxnard 1961, immediately following the film.

For more information, please contact Luis Guereca at (805) 385-8326.

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