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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study is A Time to Choose, a 511 -page book published last week by the Ford Foundation after two years of research. The other is Project Independence Blueprint, a 980-page document compiled for President Ford's guidance by a team of 750 analysts and experts directed by the Federal Energy Administration. They employed a gigantic computer model to calculate the effects on energy use of a bewildering variety of supply, price and policy changes. The Blueprint will not be released until next month, but TIME Correspondent Samuel R. Iker has learned many of its details, and they contain...
...about military maneuvers during the D-Day invasion. However, if one watched the film to figure out what made an American audience, one generation later, clamor to see such a long, detailed re-enactment of a World War II operation, the film becomes a much more interesting social document. It teaches us about...
...University's most innovative or forward-looking Department, has agreed to sponsor a colloquium on film as source material for history. The teaching fellows and professors who organized the colloquium managed to convince the Department that it's time to recognize film as a respectable kind of historical document. So, beginning next week, and continuing for six consecutive Monday evenings, the colloquium will screen films illuminating some of the social consequences of the Great Depression in Britain and America. Each screening will be followed by a discussion on the use of the films as source material...
Speculation about a film's audience is only one way to use a film as an historical document. One can also learn by examining the economic and ideological motives of the film-makers. Included in the colloquium's schedule are films by various government agencies as well as films by radical film-makers working outside the commercial movies industry. Viewed in juxtaposition, these films convey the political tensions of a decade. United Action Means Victory(1940), a production of the United Auto Workers Film Department, which celebrates the 1939 GM tool and die strike, will be shown along with...
Film is an integral part of our society, and may prove to be the chief way our culture is preserved for future historians. Films document events and coalesce dreams with a vividness unmatched by any other medium. They speak for the film-making elite and for the film-going masses...