Coronado Heights raw footage,16mm film

The raw footage 16mm film reels for McHenry contribution to the Montage film series based around the Lindsborg, Kansas scenic location “Coronado Heights”.
The Montage Series
By Ben Urish
Beginning in 1951 Wichita, Kansas had a vibrant and adventurous film society. The Wichita Film Society (WFS) was a focal point for those interested in the cinema arts and was both an institution of education, exhibition, and a hub for other aspects of the local art and theater scenes.
By the late 1950s the WFS had several members and frequent patrons who wanted to make films of their own and in 1959, three of them formed Montage Productions, named after their interest in the films (and film theories) of Sergei Eisenstein and V.I Pudovkin. The films in the series eventually were tied together by two broad and broadly defined attributes: 1) they were about people or places (or both) in Kansas, and 2) the films were artistic representations about other artistic representations. The series lasted until 1965 by which time the members' careers took them away from Wichita and each other. Each film had its premiere at a WFS screening. Credits as they appear in the films and a brief synopsis of the films are printed below.
In the early and mid-1980s I researched the history of The Wichita Film Society and as a result came across the information about the Montage films written here. Through other local filmmakers and former WFS members I was able to get in touch with Corban LePell, Wayne Sourbeer, Richard Wright, and Bruce Conner. They shared their memories and insights and either loaned me copies of their films or told me where to find them. Eventually the WFS rescreened their films for the public along with more recent films by local filmmakers.
I then got the idea to try and finish their unfinished works, and began to read up on the town of Nicodemus, the subject of one of their unfinished Montage Productions. Soon however, I decided to make a film of my own, in more or less the same style that they had used. That film is listed here as well.
The leader of Montage Productions was Wayne Sourbeer, who later went on to be a noted photographer and to make several award-winning documentaries and other films, as well as building a successful career at PBS. His awards included winning an Emmy. When contacted in the early 1980s he related that he had made the film Starry Night, about the noted Van Gogh painting and he reported that he thought of it as being “Montage-like” in form and purpose.
The other two members were Richard Meyer and Richard Grove. In addition to their work with the WFS and Montage Productions they began a film class, assisted other local filmmakers, and even started another alternative film series at a local Wichita theater with university professor Walter Merrill who was a major supporter of both the Montage group and the film and art scene in Wichita. Meyer went into television work eventually being a station director while Grove ran various art museums and became a museum Education Specialist for the U.S. Office of Education. He often instituted film programs as part of his work.