A few years ago, our Director of Programming Steven Haines (@fleamarketfilms) was sorting through the 1,500 reels of Allegheny Intermediate Unit films housed under the stairs in Pittsburgh Filmmakers’s Oakland building — reels he saved from being tossed out when they closed. He happened on an educational film made by Maclovia Rodriguez, noted her name, and thought nothing more of it until a year or so later when he saw her name pop up in the credits for another film. “I recognize that name!”  He started seeking out her other films, and well: the rest is history. Or, more accurately, will be history because — until now — Maclovia Rodriguez’s name has been completely absent from film history — a history that only recently has paid any attention to educational filmmaking at all.  In the 1960s and 70s, Rodriguez made a string of charming, empathetic short films for Encyclopædia Britannica Films that circulated widely in schools but have largely been forgotten in the intervening 50 years....