Mayor's Message - Living in a Virtual World

By Mayor Gary Hall

“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” was the movie that made Robert Redford a superstar. He got his acting start at the Historic Elitch’s Garden Theatre in Denver. He’s given back so much to the industry that made him famous with the Sundance Film Festival.

The festival’s move to Boulder is a great boon for Colorado – and for Estes Park – artistically and culturally, as well as financially.

Motion pictures were an early widespread type of virtual reality. Movies are communication, whether fiction or non-fiction.

With films, we are not in the physical presence of the actors on the screen. Yet we feel that we know them, their ups and downs, their emotions, their joys, and their sorrows.

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