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Michael Cramer, a professor of film history at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New...

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Although Italian cinema first gained international notoriety with neorealist films such as Open City and Bicycle Thieves released after WWII, it reached perhaps its greatest commercial and artistic heights in the early 1960s. Join New Canaan Library in welcoming Michael Cramer, Professor of Film History at Sarah Lawrence College, who will explore the various factors and influences that produced some of Italy’s most renowned and artistic films. Professor Cramer’s talk is the second in New Ca...

Very easily have water in their first floor. >> very much so. and thats why our council earlier in the week went and issued a mandatory evacuation for 8:00 last night, and then a curfew for 8:00 last night, trying to encourage people to leave, because this will be a devastating event for rain and storm surge. and people arent used to that here. we do get storms, and our storms are usually in the one and two category type storms, or at least they have been recently. but this one is a little bit d...

Power hospitals and schools, trying to be as ready as possible for what is ahead. joining me right now is michael cramer. michael, what is your biggest concern at this hour from what youre seeing? >> presently, now that the storm has actually reduced in speed, our main concern is the storm surge and the rain. were talking about 20 to 40 inches of rain, and 9 to 13-foot storm surge. to put that in perspective, most of our housing on the coast is elevated. and that would mean that even with an ele...

13 foot storm surge, well easily have half of our community under water. >> bill: a final question and i need a quick answer. i dont know how to answer it myself and why i ask it. if youre in a river town, i understand the flooding 10 feet it comes up. youre on the ocean. how does 10 feet of flooding affect you? >> 10 feet affects us in two ways. one, we have the ocean, the sound, and the river. so we get 10 feet all the way around. and so for us that constitutes a whole section of our community...

It is unbelievable. if we turn -- [inaudible] >> bill: were going to dry our best throughout the day here to make sure the equipment works but also that we stay in a safe area. and we dont take many chances here. wealth owe -- well get a connection back with griff in a moment. if you were taking the cape fear river you would hit carolina beach. michael cramer is the sound manager. i believe we have a connection with you on the phone. how are things where you are? >> right now pretty calm. were i...

>> right now it looks like we have just a couple of small issues for damage, roofs here and there, small wall that has collapsed. but other than that, most of it is minor debris, trees and things like that. not very much flooding. we dont have too much in the way of power lines or phone lines in the road but we are completely out of power on the island. so thats about 6,000 residents. >> bill: you are about on the underbelly of the storm, is that right, michael, the southern end of it? >> yes, t...