Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There Northshield -- surrounded by two dozen blank monitors that had been intended to carry outside events live--supervised a rapid editing before the film was finally aired...
...result was that coverage of events outside the amphitheatre consisted of long, uninterrupted film sequences shot understandably when there was something happening -- when the clashes between police and protesters reached their height. The same films were aired over and over again whenever Chet or David referred back to the events, as after Senator Ribicoff blasted Mayor Daley for running a police state. Consequently, both the intensity and the frequency of the clashes may have seemed greater than they were...
...discussing the coincidental case with which they rose to prominent positions and the freedom they afforded themselves and others, these artists reveal a sublimely naive attitude toward their business, if not their craft. They are often unwilling to acknowledge the development of American film into a major mass-produced consumer product thriving on standardization. They know they were great: that their best cameraman could light like Rembrandt and did, that their designers recreated detail with unsurpassed fidelity, most of all that the degree of collaborative improvisation they enjoyed produced high art and certainly America's greatest screen comedy...
...Brownlow's material finally convinces us that changes were basically detrimental, at least those resulting from production supervision and over-industrialization. A superb chapter on Producers shows how surprised the autonomous directors were when corporate heads unleashed these "supervisors" on them. Maurice Tourneur, an early film-maker of indescribable importance, refused initially to allow his first Producer on the set. The studio finally explained to him that Producers were a permanent fixture and Tourneur returned immediately to France, never to make another film...
...conclusion: film students, in or out of accredited college courses, are bombarded by esthetic theory and unenlightened history. This enables them to become cinema-literates without having much practical value on their overall outlook or on the films that they make. The enormous relevance of The Parade's Gone By... to students is the direct link between the spirit of the pioneers and that of a kid fighting to get his first film completed. We need not reject the traditions of American narrative film-making, only those of Hollywood since Wall Street took over; Brownlow's emphases on the almost...