In Fall 2014, crowds descended on the Harry Ransom Center for our exhibition “The Making of Gone With the Wind”. I was a brand new docent, guiding my first tours ever through a museum exhibition, and I loved every minute of it. My tours were all about the filmmaking behind-the-scenes, why it took 3 years to make the film and why the Ransom Center has preserved all these costumes, memos, set designs, photographs and storyboards. I merged my previous film knowledge with what I was learning about David O. Selznick (Producer) and Victor Fleming (Director…one of them at least!) and the whole crew that made this movie the classic that it still is today. My tours ranged from 10-40 visitors with audiences composed of the general public to UT Radio-TV-Film undergrads, from museum staff who cared for their own GWTW materials to high school students who had never heard of Clark Gable! Leading these tours was truly one of my favorite experiences at UT Austin.
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/2014/gwtw/