"Zap Revisited," a documentary made in 1990 by a native North Dakota film student, will be sold during Saturday's 40th anniversary of Zip to Zap.

Chris Breitling, who now produces a cable television health program in the San Francisco Bay area, made the film while a Chicago Columbia College graduate student.

Breitling says he tried to offer a look at the 1969 spring break party that put Zap on the map through the perspective of those who were there.

"I shot it with a borrowed camera during my Christmas break in 1990, driving to Zap without much of a plan, shooting scenery in subzero temperatures and lining up interviews on the fly," he said. "I was really just learning the process of documentary filmmaking at the time and probably made a lot of mistakes. I was also lucky to land some great interviews with colorful characters and finding choice snippets of news footage."

Breitling found individuals who had intimate knowledge of the Zip to Zap origins, among them Charles Stroup, Hazen, who in 1969 was North Dakota State University student body president, and Kevin Carvell, then-editor of NDSU's student newspaper, The Spectrum. Carvell wrote the tongue-in-cheek article that promoted a spring break picnic in Zap as an alternative to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

The article, picked up by the national press, unwittingly spurred a chain of events leading to prairie mayhem and North Dakota Guardsmen clashing with partying students.

The documentary has been featured on Prairie Public Television, and in 1992 Breitling was invited to screen it at the State Historical Society's oral history conference. A copy of "Zap Revisited" also is on file in the State Archives.

The 40th anniversary of the Zip to Zap spurred Breitling to dust off the old master tape and copy it onto a new DVD version, which is being sold by Zap residents during the town's anniversary festivities. The anniversary begins at noon and will include an afternoon and evening of food and music, as well as a car show and motorcycle run.

Anyone interested in ordering a DVD of "Zap Revisited" can order one online at www.ZapRevisited.com, contact Breitling directly at cbreitling@gmail.com or call 650-468-6252.