Black Lily rocks!
Felix
Philadelphia rocked the second annual Black Lily Film and Music Festival this past weekend. I was there to lead a DocuClub session, featuring local filmmaker LeAnn Erickson. We watched a rough cut of Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII. In Rosies, LeAnn tells the story of a group of Philadelphia female mathematicians who did secret ballistics work for the Army during the war, and later became programmers for ENIAC, the first electronic computer. The documentary played to a packed classroom inside International House, near Drexell University. A special surprise for the audience was attendance by the three main female characters, Jean Bartik, Doris Polsky and Shirley Melvin, all of whom are in their 80s.
Director LeAnn Erickson and Top Secret Rosies Doris Polsky, Shirley Melvin, and Jean Bartik
The local audience was enthusiastic and provided LeAnn with valuable insight for her film.
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