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Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The - Extensive Documentaries Are Being Produced
Posted by David Lambert
3/04/2004
TVShowsOnDVD has kept up with The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and its journey to DVD since October 2002, and we have a new update for you on what is turning out to be a long road indeed.
Our newest update comes to us via the Akron Beacon Journal, whose article last Sunday - "Lucas series inches to DVD", by R.D. Heldenfels - notes that a celebrated staffer at their local University is taking part in the creation of the DVD release, and was brought out to the Skywalker Ranch to do just that.
You see, in the Video Business article we first linked to in our original Young Indy Jones news, it was explained about the plans to turn the release into an educational affair, along with all the entertainment of course, by providing extras for every episode that ties it into the history which was woven into the fictional "Indy" story. According to LucasFilm honcho Rick McCallum, "what we're going to try to do is produce historical documentaries about each of the historical characters." Now we have the details of Dave Baker's adventure in consulting on one of these documentaries:
...it was good to hear that University of Akron archivist Dave Baker was involved in a DVD release of the Chronicles.
Director of the university's Archives of the History of American Psychology, Baker said he was contacted awhile back by Lucas' people looking for material for a documentary on psychology.
Baker talked with them about the differences between psychology and psychiatry. ("Psychologists are concerned with the human condition in the broad sense," he said. "Psychiatrists are physicians first, concerned with the treatment of mental illness.") He also talked about the development of psychology between the world wars.
"The thing I appreciated was that I was able to have some input," he said. "I'm a very passionate historian of psychology."
And apparently an impressive one. Baker was flown out to Lucas' Skywalker Ranch facility for an interview to be included in the documentary. Which turned out to be a companion piece for the DVD release of a Chronicles episode featuring Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
Baker did not really know the series. "I had seen it once and it was a long time ago," he said.
Nor was he sure when the DVD will come out. Baker guessed it will be tied to the release of the fourth big-screen Indiana Jones, which had been expected in 2005 until reports of Lucas' dissatisfaction with the original script.
"I didn't see that they had a hard and fast marketing plan," Baker said. "It's a very ambitious project. It looks like they're doing something like 50 or 100 of these documentaries."
A nice update there! We encourage you to read the entire article at the link above, and find out more about Baker's visit (and about the series itself, if you happen to be unfamiliar with it). And we offer our thanks to R.D. Heldenfels and the Beacon Journal for their well-written article.
We didn't stumble across this article ourselves, though, and we like to give credit where it is due. So we have to offer our sincere thanks to "CraigL", who posted about this article at 6:39 AM (Eastern) yesterday at The Home Theater Forum. Craig's been a member there for just over 4 years, and knows that all us DVD news-hounds hang out there looking for leads. So it's only fair that he get proper credit for his find. THANKS!