Pedestal
A short film about the life, death, and afterlife--as a guerilla/DIY art gallery--of the Jefferson Davis monument in New Orleans.
Pedestal A film by Louie Ludwig
Written and produced by Louie Ludwig and Robin Chambless
Directed and narrated by Louie Ludwig
© 2022 zzi Music LLC Video ISRC USWGE2290001
Images/video (public domain unless otherwise noted):
1890 New Orleans map: LSU Special Collections, 1904 Picayune headline: Ned Hémard/New Orleans Bar Assn., Lee Monument (NO c. 1923): National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Liberty Place Battle: Leslie's Illustrated via Wikimedia Commons, Liberty Place Monument: New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) City Archives, Jefferson Davis photo: National Endowment for the Humanities, Jefferson Davis Monument: New Orleans Historical Society, 1911 NO Times-Democrat front page: newspapers.com, Jefferson Davis statue unveiling: Wikimedia Commons, Liberty Place monument streetcar video: archive.org/Prelinger Archive, Liberty Place monument inscription: Dorothea Lange/NARA, Woolworth postcard: source unknown, Rivergate postcard: Louie Ludwig collection, Rivergate and monument: NOPL/Department of Streets Archive, David Duke: © AP, Liberty Place monument: Ifrogmation New Orleans via Wikimedia Commons (CC), Jefferson Davis monument: Infrogmation New Orleans (CC), Emmanuel AME Church Charleston: Voice of America, City Council Meeting 8/13/2015: City of New Orleans, Gov. Bobby Jindal: Spc. Scott Longstreet, Headlines: © nola.com, Liberty Place monument removal video: © nola.com, Lee on crane wiki Abdazizar. (CC 40), Mitch Landrieu speech: © WWL-TV, water fountain: archive.org/Prelinger Archive, streetcar: Dorothea Lange/NARA, Matthew Brady photo: NARA, "LOVE" sculpture: Infrogmation New Orleans (CC), cat
furniture: Kate Bucko via Facebook
All other images/video/animations by Louie Ludwig © zzi Music, LLC
Music:
"Uncertain Terms" by Louie Ludwig and Randy Carstater
© 1983, 1985 Louie Ludwig/zzi Music LLC ISRC USWGE1800008
"Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin
UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" Traditional
"Dixie's Land" by Daniel Decatur Emmett
1916 recording by Ada Jones and Billy Murray
"Pony Girl" (instr.) by Louie Ludwig
© 1997, 2014 Louie Ludwig/zzi Music LLC ISRC USWGE1400011
"The Other Battle of New Orleans" (instr.) by Louie Ludwig
© 2011 Louie Ludwig/zzi Music LLC ISRC USWGE1100403
"Headin' Home" (instr.) by Louie Ludwig
© 2014 Louie Ludwig/zzi Music LLC ISRC USWGE1400010