Word: newsreel
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...silence going on here, the police and the mass media seem to have gotten the idea from New York. There, hundreds of hippies marched around Times Square into Grand Central Station, cops following them with prods of "Keep moving." Then they all hopped onto the IRT, riding downtown with newsreel cameras whirling in the subway with them. The newspapers said nothing. No one was arrested. The the East Village Other said...
...crowd poured into the parking lot below, and the police followed them in tight well-organized groups of 15. Their movements were well-lighted by the newsreel cameras...
...Passos also interpolated his narrative with the Newsreel, an impressionistic montage of headlines and boldfaced journalism that sharpened the ironic barb of his deadpan stories. The three inventions-with the waning of Dos Passos' reputation-have been dismissed as fashionable quirks of the experimental '30s, like that of e e cummings' renunciation of the capital letter or Dos Passes' own abhorrence of the hyphen. It can now be seen that they were more than razzmatazz...
Actuality is insinuated by the texture of the film, overexposed and grainy as a newsreel, and by a cast of amateurs whose faces wear the perfect unpreventable authenticity of faces in a crowd. Pauline Murray, who plays the nurse, is a professional, but she skillfully conceals her training behind features as natural and untidy as an untied shoe. At every point in this picture, art conceals art so responsibly that fantasy , takes on the force of history...
...documentary technique, his legacy from the post-war Italian neo-realist film-makers, coupled with Rosi's own sensitivity to detail. During the bullring scenes particularly, Rosi's skillful use of faces in the crowd provides a visual comment on the action which raises the film far above the newsreel level. Or, is another instance, Rosi places Miguelin outside the Madrid ring selling souvenirs and records the scens when a policeman, unaware that he was on candid camera, chases the poor boy away...