Opening Rotenone to Bridgeport Fish

Description: "Titian" depicts the childhood of the titular Renaissance painter, and the journey he takes in order to pursue his artistic passion., This film was the first motion picture produced by the Palo Alto Children's Theatre. The project was a collaboration between film industry workers from Hollywood, non-professional actors from Palo Alto, and local Bay Area institutions. Recreation magazine described the production as "something of a milestone in the history of motion pictures, for it is probably the first time that non-professional, recreational theater members and professional motion picture technicians have combined their talents and their equipment to make a picture for children." The Speech and Drama Department and the Music Department at Stanford University, and the Music Department at the San Jose State College contributed their special skills (Recreation, August 1945, p. 256). The film's premier in August of 1945 was broadcast live by the local NBC affiliate and a photographer from Life magazine shot pictures of the event. An article in the San Francisco Chronicle noted that the U.S. Office of War Information was interested in sending the movie to Italy to aid in the postwar re-education of that country (San Francisco Chronicle, August 8, 1945).