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Doug Moe: Anecdotes illustrate film’s fickle nature

One of these years the Wisconsin Film Festival should invite Joe McBride back to town to tell stories of the glory days of film on the UW-Madison campus, as well as what happened to him later when he went Hollywood. In fact, why not this year?….Originally from Wauwatosa, in September 1966 McBride was taking a beginning film class taught by charismatic UW-Madison professor Richard Byrne. ?Kane? was screened one day in class, and the young McBride was blown away.