# @pghsoundandimage on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C-aNEU2x8zW
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/30135234-pghsoundandimage-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/fadad2961d.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-08-08T12:46:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Pittsburgh Sound + Image (@pghsoundandimage) — https://gondola.cc/pghsoundandimage

## Caption

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. Her films cover a seemingly endless numbers of topics: Latinx and African-American identity, the beauty of the seasons changing, racial discrimination, immigrant experience, the erosion of Appalachian culture, and the utterly alien experience of getting an eye exam. 

Head to the @theglitterboxtheater Friday, August 23rd at 8pm to be as charmed by this PSI discovery as we were — free for members, tickets at the link in our bio 🔗

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pittsburgh Sound + Image | @pghsoundandimage | https://gondola.cc/pghsoundandimage | Non-Profit Organization |
| Hannah Kinney-Kobre | @hannahbloom98 | https://gondola.cc/hannahbloom98 | Marketing Manager |

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