Ten years since the DVD has been published, many things have occurred. Most significant was that thanks to the help of Teresa Montoya we were able to be in touch with Alfred Clah, who was still alive up until quite recently.
The films have gained a much wider audience in their distribution by Visionmaker Media, but as of November 2021 the DVDs are going to be self distributed by the Museum, and all profits go to the original filmmakers and their families.
In 2018 a generous gift was offered to the Museum Archives by Richard Chalfen, his own original cut footage for a film he hoped to make about the project, but never completed, as well as a set of original photographs, (some of which you see on this page.). Film/Media Archivist Kate Pourshariati and her partner Shapoor Pourshariati traveled to Boston to record Chalfen’s narration for the film, which gives an overview of the project from the point of view of the then quite young assistant, now retired after a long career as an academic in media studies. This new short film was screened just once in Philadelphia, but unavailable since, but soon will be made available as part of a digital video set, together with the original films and Pine Springs Then and Now, for colleges, universities and libraries. Please contact the Archives at photos@pennmuseum.org for more information on how to order the set. As with the DVDs, all profits will go to the Navajo/Dine filmmakers and their families.
