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A film historian and critic as well as a poet, Morton taught Film and Literature at Cabrillo College in Aptos, CA., until his retirement in l998. In 1989, he was invited to gives a series of lectures at the Australian National Film School in Sydney, a project that was planned to coincide with his poetry tour of Australia that year.

His sixteen-part TV history of film was the prime visual source of film history at the school for several years, and has been shown on a number of cable TV channels in California. His film reviews, profiles of contemporary authors and book reviews appeared regularly in the Metro newspaper chain from 1985-1998.

In 1999, he curated a festival of Ernst Lubitsch films at Santa Cruz's McPherson Museum of Art & History. In addition, he has lectured several times on film at the Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California.

Morton has been a longtime co-host of Cinema Scene, a bi-weekly TV film review program that first aired on the AT&T Broadband and Comcast cable channels and was shown throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The show is now produced by Community Television of Santa Cruz County and is carried by several stations in the San Jose and South Bay area.

• Watch Mort's TV show "Cinema Scene" in Santa Cruz County on channel 27 at 8:30 p.m. Thursdays and Sundays. Missed it? Watch the podcast!

• Attend film discussions with Mort at the Nickelodeon Theatre, every other Saturday afternoon.

• Selected articles & reviews on cinema by Morton. Click here.