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I can't believe I can't find an obit....
Here's what I DID find:
https://ohavizedek.org/event/funeral-for-frank-manchel/
And here's what I posted in 2015 (I don't know if these all still work).
A former professor of theatre and English, he was born in Detroit and now lives in Burlington, Vermont.
Long article, with photo:
http://www.uvm.edu/vq/?Page=news&storyID=13572&category=vq-fetrs
(in it, Manchel interviews Academy Award winning cinematographer Robert Richardson)
http://archive.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20130430/ENT/304290039/Vermont-author-film-scholar-reflects-on-Jackie-Robinson-s-legacy
(from 2013: "Vermont author, film scholar reflects on Jackie Robinson's legacy")
http://prabook.org/web/person-view.html?profileId=29477
(brief listing of his career)
https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/flm/summary/v036/36.2youngblood.html
(partial article from 2006)
"No one is more deserving than Frank Manchel, Emeritus Professor of English and Film at the University of Vermont, to be recognized by Film & History as a pioneer in film studies. Since 1964--when he published his first scholarly article on film--to the present, Professor Manchel has devoted his life to film education and scholarship. During those early decades when film was a less-than-respectable adjunct to the university curriculum, he proselytized passionately and with unflagging energy about its intrinsic value for scholars and its boundless possibilities for teachers..."
https://www.google.com/search?q=frank+manchel&biw=1280&bih=890&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CCoQsARqFQoTCJ30hoCd78YCFcZzPgodlb0MTA#tbm=isch&q=frank+manchel+books
(book covers)
WRITINGS:
Movies and How They Are Made (juvenile), Prentice-Hall, 1968.
When Pictures Began to Move (juvenile), illustrations by James Caraway, Prentice-Hall, 1968.
When Movies Began to Speak (juvenile), Prentice-Hall, 1969.
Terrors of the Screen (Junior Literary Guild selection), Prentice-Hall, 1970. (Contributor) Sheila Schwartz, editor, Readings in the Humanities, Macmillan, 1970.
Cameras West (Junior Literary Guild selection), Prentice-Hall, 1972.
Film Study: A Resource Guide, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973. Published by F. Watts:
Yesterday's Clowns: The Rise of Film Comedy, 1973.
The Talking Clowns, 1976.
An Album of Great Science Fiction Films, 1976, revised edition, 1982.
Women on the Hollywood Screen, 1977.
Gangsters on the Screen, 1978.
The Box-Office Clowns: Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, 1979. Great Sports Movies, 1980.
An Album of Modern Horror Films, 1983.
Film Study: a Resource Guide, Associated University Presses, 1990.
Also: Every Step a Struggle: Interviews with Seven Who Shaped the African-American Image in Movies, 2007
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