FILM PREMIERE: Post Cards & Photos from Sanibel - The Sequel 1946 - 1984

Post Cards and Photos from Sanibel - The Sequel 1946 - 1984

The latest documentary created by seven-time Emmy Award winner David E. Carter, Postcards & Photos from Sanibel: The Sequel, will premiere at The Community House on Tuesday, March 19th at 7 p.m. The film will feature more than 60 historic photographs from the Charlie McCullough collection.

Carter’s new documentary is a feature- length film done “Ken Burns style,” with narrators reading “postcards and photos from Sanibel” with a storyline that follows life on Sanibel from 1946 through 1984. Photographs and postcards from Sanibel are the foundation of the piece.

“What started as an initiative from Eric Pfeifer to expand the Sanibel Public Library’s vintage photo collection eventually became the basis for this new film,” said Carter. “When I originally went to the library and asked to see their collection, they had about 500 photographs, but more than 2,000 additional images to be scanned.”

According to Carter, a large majority of the images in the library collection featured photographs of Sanibel prior to the construction of the causeway, which opened on May 26, 1963. More recent images were scarce. That is, until members of the McCullough family stepped forward and offered the filmmaker total access to the Charlie McCullough collection, many of which were taken between the late 1960s and early 1980s.

“This sequel is truly going to be a tribute to Charlie McCullough’s work,” noted Carter. “His family has been so generous to make these images available to me.”

The original documentary, which premiered in early 2017, covered the years 1884 – when the Sanibel Lighthouse was built – through 1947. The new film picks up in 1946, to provide a transition between the two stories, and ends in 1984, the 100th anniversary of the lighthouse.