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Tumbling Taboos. What appealed most to Crowther were movies of social content. Looking back at all those films, he nominates as his alltime favorites Citizen Kane, Grapes of Wrath and Gone With the Wind-all of them big movies with big messages. His criticism, however was not confined to movies alone. In the 1950s, he fought against the blacklisting of supposed Hollywood Communists and ridiculed some of the stridently patriotic, anti-Communist movies that were being brought out at that time. He was just as opposed to censorship movements, and has done his bit to bring the taboos tumbling down...
...Sunday the telephone rang in the home of Detroit Correspondent Joseph Kane. The call was from Ed Bailey, a Negro photographer who has excellent contacts in the city's Negro community. Bailey sounded shaken. "It's here, baby," he said...
...Kane was about to take his family on a lakeside vacation and thought he might have to postpone his departure an hour or so, but no more, "because riots just don't happen here." He went down to Twelfth Street to take a look. When he saw the smoke on the horizon and heard the first eyewitness accounts of the early violence, Kane gave up all thought of the beach; he knew that...
...them looting. They didn't want the cops to look at the press later and say, 'Oh, there's that guy.' I would say things like, 'Beautiful baby, beautiful . . . Man, where is the next action?' And usually I'd get by." But Kane and Bailey had a few close calls under sniper fire. At one point Bailey was hit in the back by a brick and his camera was taken away by an angry mob. Reinforcements appeared: Loye Miller and Dean Fischer came from TIME'S Chicago bureau and Wally Terry from...
...seem to have found a new way of interpreting and reproducing the imagery of life. Much of the expertise has been expended on trompe-l'oeil techniques that clearly have no place in the commercial film of today, or even tomorrow. Yet such visual delights as Labyrinth and Kane's three-screened children suggest that cinema-the most typical of 20th century arts-has just begun to explore its boundaries and possibilities...