"Tales from the Vault: The Dora Pinder Murder" - TRAILER
Miami Dade College’s Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives presents the premiere of their new video series, Tales from the Vault, where long-hidden stories from within their archival news collections are uncovered, on Thursday, August 15 at 6:30pm at MDC’s North Campus Room 2147. Following the screening, special guest speaker HistoryMiami Museum Resident Historian Dr. Paul George dives into the history of bolita gambling in South Florida.
The series’ first episode, The Dora Pinder Murder, pieced together original newsfilm footage, news scripts, and local newspaper coverage to tell the story of what happened in August 1952 after Dora Pinder, the wife of Miami’s notorious bolita gambling baron Howard Pinder, was murdered in their home.
This event is co-sponsored by HistoryMiami Museum and is presented with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Refreshments: 6pm
Screening and Discussion: 6:30-8pm
MDC-NORTH CAMPUS
11380 NW 27th Ave., Miami
Room 2147 (Building 2000-Mitchell Wolfson Center, first floor)
Free parking
This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP/Questions: [email protected]
www.wolfsonarchives.org
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About The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives at MDC:
The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives is an official moving image repository and archives of the State of Florida and is one of the largest institutions of its kind in the United States. Lynn Wolfson helped found the Moving Image Archives in 1984, along with Ralph Renick and historian Arva Moore Parks. Named in honor of Lynn and the late Louis Wolfson II, a Florida legislator and leader in the state’s communications industry, the Archives is solely operated by Miami Dade College, and is housed in a 9,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility on MDC’s Wolfson Campus. The Archives’ collections include 35,000 hours of videotape and 23 million feet of film. A local television news collection dates to the late 1940s, with footage from landmark television station WTVJ (first in Florida, 18th in the nation) as well as WPLG, WCKT, WCIX, and WINK. The capstone of activities at the Archives is a long-term digitization project funded generously by an additional gift from Lynn Wolfson.