Lady and a City Revisited (2025)

I will revisit my student film, "A Lady and a City," and reveal how the city has changed since the original 16 mm black and white college film in 1998. In Lady and a City Revisited, I will again include my grandmother Marjorie Nordstrom Schneider's story, past experiences, and future visions of Bridgeport, CT, where she worked and lived during WW2, with video clips and audio clips from the black and white original film from 1998 mixed with new video and audio from today in the year 2024. I will show how the city has changed from before, during, and after 1998, when I filmed the town in A Lady and a City, until today in 2024. Along with the updated character and location shots from the student film, I will also include interviews with ladies of all ages who have lived in Bridgeport, CT, in the past and now and their visions of the city in the future. The short video is in early development, and 2025 will be released.    

  The French Resistance (French: La Résistance, [la ʁezistɑ̃s]) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis in rural areas)[2][3] who conducted guerrilla warfare and published underground newspapers. They also provided first-hand intelligence information and escape networks that helped Allied soldiers and airmen trapped behind Axis lines. The Resistance's men and women came from many parts of French society, including émigrés, academics, students, aristocrats, conservative Roman Catholics (including clergy), Protestants, Jews, Muslims, liberals, anarchists, communists, and some fascists. The proportion of French people who participated in organized resistance has been estimated at one to three percent of the total population.[4] 

 Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle[a][b] (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France. In 1958, amid the Algiers putsch, he came out of retirement when appointed Prime Minister by President René Coty. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the Fifth Republic after approval by referendum. He was elected President of France later that year, a position he held until his retirement in 1969.