Green Mountain Post Films Inventory Project

The collection of the independent film company, Green Mountain Post Films is held by the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center at UMass Amherst. Co-founded by Charles Light and Daniel Keller, Green Mountain Post Films has produced and distributed films for more than twenty-five years. Their first documentary film released in 1975, Lovejoy’s Nuclear War, was one of the first films to question the nuclear energy policy of the United States. Since then GMP Films has continued to produce movies that explore social issues, and their films have been used as educational and organizational tools for activists working on peace, veteran, nuclear, environmental and other related issues. The collection contains hundreds of film and video elements (masters, release prints, negatives, dailies, work prints, outtakes, mag tracks, audio) of several GMP projects. In addition, there are several boxes of administrative files consisting of research files, correspondence, and proposals relating to film projects either produced or under consideration. There is also an assortment of alternative press publications from the 1960s-1970s. This project consists of creating a detailed inventory and assessment of all of the film elements of the collection. The inventory will track location, condition, format, length, dates and other details as necessary.