# Montage VII: Palacky, 1986

Palacky: Montage VII (1986/1998) A Film By Ben Urish Photography By Rob McHenry, Scott Phillips Music By Joel Sanderson Editing Assistant: Milton R. Machuka Inspired by and meant to honor the filmmakers and films of the original Montage series, this film examines a Bohemian cemetery in Western Kansas. Photographer Rob McHenry and then-future scenarist and novelist Scott Phillips each did some of the cinematography. I suggested ideas for it, and the music score was composed and performed by mixed/mult i -m edi a artist Joel Sanderson . The Montage Series By Ben Urish Beginning in 1951 Wichita, Kansas had a vibrant and adventurous film society. The Wichita Film Society ( WFS ) was a focal point for those interested in the cinema arts and was both an institution of education, exhibition, and a hub for other aspects of the local art and theater scenes. By the late 1950s, the WFS had several members and frequent patrons who wanted to make films of their own and in 1959, three of them formed Montage Productions , named after their interest in the films (and film theories) of Sergei Eisenstein and V.I Pudovkin. The films in the series eventually were tied together by two broad and broadly defined attributes: 1) they were about people or places (or both) in Kansas, and 2) the films were artistic representations of other artistic representations, broadly defined. The series lasted until 1965 by which time the m e m bers ' careers took them away from Wichita and each other. Each film…

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1986
- By: Demolition Kitchen Video
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/MontageVIIPalacky1986)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
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