Willow Mixed Media is a not-for-profit arts group that specializes in
documentary production on topics of social interest. Since 1970, Willow Mixed Media
has produced films
that are available online here at www.documentaryworld.com.
Film topics include:
Sweet Violets is a documentary about commercial violet growing and Rhinebeck, New York, when it was the Violet Capital of the World. In the Victorian era and beyond, violets were the corsage and bouquet flower of choice. At its peak in 1912,
growers shipped
more than 5 million blooms for Easter by train from Rhinecliff Station.
By the late 20's fashions changed and violets
became politically incorrect to wear and the flower fell further out
of popular fashion. Now, one remaining strip of cultivated violets grows in an anemone greenhouse outside Rhinebeck and Frey's Fragrant violets are picked for culinary purposes and bunched for the occasional Valentine's Day bouquet.
The Catskill Mountain House and The World Around is the fascinating
story of America's first great
mountain top
hotel,
romantic tourism, and cut-throat competition in New York's Northern Catskills.
For 140 years, from 1823 to 1963, The Catskill Mountain House stood atop the
Catskill High Peaks as a
symbol of the
Gilded Age. Beginning in the 1850's, The Laurel House, The Hotel Kaaterskill,
The
Woodstock
Overlook
Mountain House and The Grand Hotel also became world
famous
vacation
spots that attracted
business tycoons, artists and
Presidents.
Deep Water: Building the Catskill Water System
The definitive film history of the Catskill water system - the Ashokan and Schoharie Reservoirs and the Catskill
Aqueduct. Woodstock Film Festival selection hailed as a gem. An award winning production.
Our most popular DVD.
Not the Music, Just the Scene
An independent documentary of the 25 year Woodstock Anniversary Music Festival in 1994. The film exhibits the site before, during and
after the event, buying and selling of hundreds of thousands of T-shirts, festival action on the Woodstock Town Green, mudstock and mud-people.
Visit the people in their tents, follow the gate crashers, pay per view hippies, site clean up, and more!
A powerful documentary of the June 1982 march and rally for Peace and Disarmament in NY City. Nearly 1 million people joined in the protest for nuclear disarmament. The
film is edited from the most extensive television coverage of the day's events. The program features Dick Gregory, Joan Baez,
Theodore Bikel, Holly Near, Abbie Hoffman and many others.
A pioneering video documentary of a home birth. Shot in the Yucatan, Mexico, where a child is delivered Mayan style, in a
hammock, by a Mayan midwife.
"...The result is graphic as planned, and hilarious as not planned." - NY TIMES.
The documentary story of an experimental plutonium plant near Pawling, NY. The film takes a tour of the closed plant and talks with two former
workers about the plutonium spill that finally closed the facility.
From the archives of the late 1960's and early 1970's comes this period documentary.
A combination of two experimental films,
"The
True Light Beaver Film: After The Revolution", and
"Family Astrology". This program provides an intimate glimpse
into communal ways at the height of the Hippie culture.
Cameo appearances by Abbie and Anita Hoffman and Paul Krassner.
