Art 340/540 New Media; Lance Loud

An American Family was a groundbreaking documentary and is considered the first "reality" series on American television. Lance Loud, the eldest son of the family, emerged as the star of the show and was the first openly gay person to appear on television. You can watch episode excerpts here;
https://www.thirteen.org/american-family/
Years later, when Lance Loud was diagnosed with AIDS and Hepatitis C, he asked An American Family filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond to make a follow-up film that would take him through sickness and death. We have  Lance Loud! A Death In An American Family at the library and usually view it in class. It comes highly recommended from me as a pay-to-view. All that is online of it is the absolutely heart-wrenching last scene;

"SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW" sung by Loudon Wainright III for LANCE LOUD

Loudon is accompanied by his mother, Kate McGarrigle. From the PBS documentary "Lance Loud! A Death In An American Family." (2003)

The PowerPoint below further explores this series and its aftermath;

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_mucytReWKDGk7RQ5CbDwHDA8ly6ME0D?usp=sharing

YOU WILL NEED TO DOUBLE CLICK loudfamily.pptx AND THEN SELECT THE CloudConvert APP TO OPEN THE FILE OR DOWNLOAD TO YOUR HARD DRIVE.

Email me if you're having technical difficulties with the PowerPoints, getting the videos to play, etc. My newer computer opens these so effortlessly that it's not clear to me what it's doing!