Word: closeups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Closeup! (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Bell & Howell Co.'s excellent documentary series now turns to Haiti, the French-speaking Caribbean nation uncomfortably situated between Castro's Cuba and Trujillo's Dominican Republic...
...Closeup (ABC), a documentary series with an enlightened sponsor (Bell & Howell), opened with a telling study of "prejudice in the North.'' From Puerto Rican Harlem to South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation for Sioux Indians, from the besetting problems of a Negro lawyer in Los Angeles to the defeating frustrations of a Jewish doctor trying to buy a home in Grosse Pointe, Mich., the program moved quietly around the country to make its point that discrimination is not merely a regional disgrace...
...knees to thighs to a lap dissolve. Topping that, the film contains what is probably the most uproarious juxtaposition of images in the history of cinema. As the rapt Cannes audience watched the young fiancés clinch, the bedroom suddenly faded, giving way to a railroad switchyard. In closeup two train cars coupled, while locomotive pistons made background noises. The audience howled. The Japanese producers, caught with an arty touch that misfired, indignantly wondered what had happened...
...which the procession will pass. The 2,500 troops who will line the march rehearsed their duties and boned up on the eleven pages of orders of the day. Just opposite Westminster Abbey rose tier on tier of seats for those willing to pay $15 to $75 for a closeup view. An official tersely admitted that, so far, there is "nothing like a rush" to buy, and advertisements have been placed in German, Italian and French newspapers in the hope of unloading tickets on foreigners...
From their conversations came only one tangible result: Khrushchev agreed to lift his Berlin ultimatum. But more important was the personal, closeup view that Ike got of Khrushchev...