'Living History' 

This five and a half minute magazine piece about a unique couple that love to portray the Edwardian (1900-18) and 1920 era's unlike anything you have ever seen! The Archer's like to call themselves "Period Authenticians," meaning: every item that you see from their clothing, to the "things you don't see," are either an authentic antique (100 years old + plus) piece, or a vintage (25-99 years old) period piece; not one thing is a reproduction. So, it doesn't get much better than this in trying to capture or recreate, "the way it truly was!" Ed and Karen really enjoy doing the research of era's that they portray and it clearly shows. The Archer's used to find and occasionally sell period clothing to a wonderful store that was called Vintage Silhouettes owned by Art and Jeanen Fawcett that was located in the small city of Rodeo, California. They used to supply costumes for such period films as Titanic and Seabiscuit; the store sadly closed four years ago when the Fawcett's decided to retire.
The Archer's are nationally known, and have been honored by the Ford Motor Company three years in a row; 2005-2008. The first year they were honored they drove their yellow #4 1915 Ford Speedster (one of the most complete original Ford race cars left of that era, seen in the opening and closing segments), all the way to Lincoln, Nebraska to receive their award; the race car has no seat-belts, wind-shield or headlights (will do 120 mph); let alone room to store luggage. They were in Life Magazine's year end annual for 1976 (mentioned in the video), and in the early 1980s they were on the television show 'Real People' that reporter Sarah Purcell came to interview them and rode along with the Lehto Mob. The Lehto Mob are comprised of the Archer's and their "like-minded" friends, they are a famous 1920s group that was formed in the early 1970s, and they used to perform songs on the radio and dance the "Charleston" at Turk Murphy's Earthquake McGoons in San Francisco (one of the last premiere authentic Jazz clubs in the world at the William Tell Hotel on Clay St. that moved to Pier 39; a move that deemed it's closing), and do public staged kidnappings and bank robberies; before the SLA ruined it all with really kidnapping Patrica Hearst, and those staged crowd pleasing pranks were no longer requested.
This particular video won a 2007 AEGIS Award and the best documentary at SFSU.
Director/Producer/Assistant Editor/Voice Over: Jeffrey Jenkins
Assistant Director/Assistant Editor: Rachel Galbraith
Camera/Editor: Justin Rosequites
Audio/Sound Sweetener: Fey Adelstein, Chris Carter, Derek Detangel, and Patrick Van Wye.
Unfortunately, a lot of the visual quality is lost in being compressed to 320x240 for this medium, but it was filmed in 1080i and can accommodate a full movie screen. The audio is fantastic so feel free to turn it up! All but two songs are performed by Ed Archer, along with "Over There," by Billy Murray (1917), and "Charleston" by Paul Whiteman Orchestra (1923), this piece carries great accurate songs from both the Edwardian and 1920's eras.
If you would like more information about the Archers or the video please contact Mr. Jeffrey Jenkins at jwjenkins@sbcglobal.net
I have four and a half hours of footage, but the project called for only five minutes. I hope to one day add to this video for we have a lot more detailed footage about the cars and the Lehto Mob. All the filming was captured in three days of eight to ten hour increments; except for the Gatsby Picnic, that was captured three months earlier. It was done with around twenty thousand dollars worth of equipment that was loaned to me (when I was a student), by the SFSU Broadcasting Dept; to which I received my degree. I'm good friends with the Archers, so I was extremely lucky and grateful to them for allowing us the opportunity to film them.