Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Joseph L. Sasso, managing director of the Cheri Theatres, where the film is being shown, immediately appealed the decision to the Massachusetts Superior Court. Under an injunction issued by the Supreme Court the movie will continue to be shown pending decision on the appeal...
Adlow said that only the last five minutes of the film were obscene, and that charges would be dropped if that explicit lesbian scene were omitted. Sasso rejected the offer...
...Barring the use of half-a-dozen vulgarisms and the last scene, the film was not objectionable, and one might even find it instructive as well as entertaining," he said. He added that the actresses were excellent and had been exploited in the sex scene for box office interests...
...tension became almost tangible when the film "Huey" was shown. While the blacks in the audience erupted in applause at least six different times in response to statements made by the speakers in the film, the whites were noticeably silent and fidgety. As the main speakers in the film were Eldridge Cleaver, Stokeley Carmichael, and H. Rap Brown, the source of the applause--and the sentiment implicit in it--was not difficult to discover...
...ambitions of the Black Film Festival were clearly beyond the reach of the films themselves. Black Film, except as an extension of Black Theater, does not exist; film-making costs being prohibitive, a new genre of black films with any meaningful dimensions presently remains beyond the grasp of most black artists. The more foreboding problem, however, is that in the coming years the black community must find new ways to underwrite and encourage its own cultural movement--even though this will result in a temporary setback in its momentum. Unless the black community can find new ways to bring substantive...