Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mehta was just following the score of Contextures, a new multimedia orchestral work which he commissioned from Composer William Kraft. Accompanying the first movement of Contextures, subtitled "Riots-Decade 60," was a color film in which abstract patterns had been scratched, brushed and drawn on celluloid, and punctuated with black and white stills of last summer's riots in U.S. cities. Accompanying the nonstop fourth and fifth movements was an exacting film inspection of Painter Reginald Pollack's works on the themes of segregation and violence-closeups of hooded Klan marauders, straining limbs, the curled bodies of innocent...
...their lots like caliphs, buying stars like steers, firing directors as easily as office boys, and selecting scripts by gut instinct. And the power vacuum they left behind is being filled by men with polished fingernails and vocabularies to match. The arrival of the newcomers may not guarantee a Celluloid City renaissance. But it has already generated a measurable optimism...
...reason for this celluloid explosion is the widespread conviction among young people that film is the most vital modern art form. Jean Cocteau believed that movies could never become a true art until the materials to make them were as inexpensive as pencil and paper. The era he predicted is rapidly arriving. Students can now make a short film for as little as $25, and a workable 16-mm. camera can be had for as little as $40. McLuhan-age educators, moreover, welcome this form of creative endeavor. Some foresee the day when film training will be an accepted...
...Celluloid courtroom dramas often come to an end with the guilty person breaking down in the witness box and giving himself away while the judge looks on. It rarely happens that way in real life. But the pressures of the courtroom are great, and last week in Manhattan Harold Weinberg found them overwhelming...