OUTLINES

THE DISCOVERY THAT STARTED 2ND STATE FILMS

IN 2009, a book was opened that had been borrowed from the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, and several pages fell out of this book and quite literally an amazing story fell into my hands. I knew that a film would be the best way to share this amazing story with the rest of the world and I am so honored and grateful to the many amazing and supremely talented individuals who gave their time to this film project to help me bring the story that fell from the pages of a book that fateful day, to life through film. Unknowingly this story - and the tremendous sense of obligation I felt to share it, started 2nd State Films.

TRACING OUTLINES

The remarkable story of the Outlines gallery presented several challenges when attempting to

tell this story so many years later- much of the film focused on the discovery of the two Outlines scrapbooks which are presently gifted to the Smithsonian Museum. The scrapbooks were carefully preserved artifacts that Betty Rockwell hand curated during the time of the Outlines gallery and thankfully much of the research for this film project was based on the information preserved in the scrapbooks.

Aside from the historical artifacts that I was able to trace while researching my late grandmother's gallery, quite a few notorious artists, icons of the world of art were so kind to lend their memories and voices to this film.