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California State University, Northridge’s Department of Cinema and Television Arts and the CSUN Cinematheque will present a special tribute to Emmy-Award winning television producer Alan Armer, titled, “Untouchable: The Television Legacy of Alan Armer.”
The screening will be held in the Elaine and Alan Armer Screening Room, a room Armer gifted the CTVA department, in which he taught during the last years of his life.
“Alan Armer was a legend in television and was an icon,” said Nate Thomas, professor in the Department of Cinema and Television Arts. “We have a new generation of students that need to be shown these films and historic figures.”
The Elaine and Alan Armer Screening Room is located in Manzanita Hall Room 100 at 18111 Nordhoff St. Northridge, CA. The event will be held on Saturday, Feb. 28 at 2 p.m., and is free and open to the public.
The screening will feature a series of Armer’s notable work, including a pilot episode of The Fugitive, a suspenseful television drama series. Rare archival clips from Armer’s oral history, courtesy of the Television Academy Foundation, will be showcased.
“We wanted to do that, and look back at his legacy,” Thomas said. “We are a department that embraces the history of media, and we have faculty members that are part of that history as well.”
Armer donated the screening room to CSUN following the 1994 Northridge earthquake. At the time, it was the largest donation given by faculty.
“In his later years he had gone back to school to get his degree to teach, and I had the pleasure of having him in class. I didn’t know one day I would also work with him,” Thomas said.
A panel discussion featuring Armer’s three adult children will follow the screenings. The panel will be moderated by Thomas and will explore Armer’s legacy as a producer and educator, as well as his influence on television professionals.
The screening is an extension of the CSUN Cinemateque. The CSUN Cinematheque is a year-found film screening program housed in the Elaine and Alan Armer Screening Room, and often presents thematically designed retrospectives of classic films, contemporary releases, and more. The screenings support the academic mission of the CSUN CTVA Department.
For more information, visit https://www.csun.edu/mike-curb-arts-media-communication/cinema-television-arts/cinematheque
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