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...been allowed public exhibition in Argentina and private attempts are dangerous-they also had to deal with the high production costs of using film as the medium of their essay in the situation of a capitalist economy. They worked as cheaply as possible,using the most crude 16mm Bolex available, without sinc-sound or motorized drive (making their longest possible takes about 30 seconds). And to raise the money they worked in the daytime making commercials (many of which are exploited contemptuously in the film), an appropriate-and inescapable-contradiction...
...film in history: $2,463,916. It has only begun to bring in the money, but it has already altered the "new" Hollywood beyond ready recognition. The place where executives put away their cigars and grew sideburns overnight, the industry that was welcoming kids from U.C.L.A. with a Bolex and a two-page outline?suddenly, it is in show business again. Says Evans: "At Paramount we learned a long, four-year, expensive lesson. From now on we make our kind of pictures. No directors who have final cut. We have final cut. Paul Newman may be one of our best...
...have plenty of tanks, but tanks cannot detect signals." Having learned just that, the Soviet commander in Moravia became so incensed at the persistent television coverage that he threatened to level the town if the station stayed on the air. Technicians thereupon switched off, temporarily. Meanwhile, cameramen were stuffing Bolex gear under their raincoats to shoot some of the most daring footage ever taken of the Red army at work. By week's end, just minutes ahead of Soviet secret police, the underground TV crew fled across the border to Austria...
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