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Video: MLC, The Early Years

2004 documentary from interviews by Paty Baum with students, founding teachers, and principal Amasa Gilman

FILMMAKER and MLC alumna Paty Baum began shooting documentary footage of her school in 2003. In 2004, from her initial series of interviews discussing MLC's earliest days, she crafted this 27-minute video. Paty carefully included mention of key issues that emerged in the interviews and that define MLC's early days—founders' doubts, challenges, deceptions, disappointments, and successes; the widely varied ways learning was made to happen; the incorporation of play and emphasis on the arts; the freedoms and opportunities, troubles and costs; and the warmth, love, and euphoric joys. The documentary shows MLC as exemplary, imperfect, and under-evaluated. It features, in order of appearance: Betty Mayther, John Morrison, Craig Mayther, Amasa Gilman, Emil Abramovic, Carol Bialostosky, Gary Fountaine, Chris Baum, Jeana Edelman, Sarah Berry, Chris Klicks, and Mike King.