Greg Wilsbacher, Ph.D., a University of South Carolina faculty librarian and curator of the famous Fox Movietone News Collection housed there, will present a muti-media program, “How the American Homefront First Saw D-Day” on June 5 at 2 p.m. at the Transylvania County Library’s Rogow Community Room, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard. The program, sponsored by the Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas, is free and open to the public and is meant to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the largest amphibious assault in history. Wilsbacher received his Ph.D. in English from Indiana University. In addition to curating the Fox Movietone News Collection, he also curates the United States Marine Corps Film Repository at USC. He writes and lectures on newsreel history, digital preservation theory, optical sound technologies and military cinematography. He is currently project lead on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, “Virtual Bench,” that fuses artificial intelligence models with traditional methods of archival film analysis. “During World War II, Americans avidly followed the fighting around the globe by reading newspapers and listening to the radio, but in those days before television, the way they saw moving images of our soldiers, sailors and airmen in action was by going to the movies and seeing the newsreels that preceded the motion pictures of the day,” said David Morrow, Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas Board president. “Perhaps, they were working in a defense industry. They almost certainly had loved ones fighting overseas for the future of the world.... Read More