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Among the groups participating in the university are the Union of Radical Political Economics, the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, the Old Mole, Bread and Roses, the Ecology Coalition, Newsreel, the New College, Venceremos Brigade, welfare rights groups, and the Graduate School of Design...
Lang's presentation of social facts and events is equally direct. Lang says he tells his cameramen to give him nothing fancy, just "newsreel photography." The compositions of Fary, however, go beyond realism to present situations so explicitly that they verge on symbolic caricature, as in Eisenstein. We are repeatedly struck by shots of the raving lynch mob, Tracy, and the defendants looking into the camera. Even more powerful are the shots wherein the camera tracks right in on characters, or equivalently where characters run almost into the camera, then stop...
Lang's use of these frontal shots goes beyond direct assault on the audience. Toward the middle. Fury begins to show film as an instrument of exposure, hence an instrument of justice. An incredible courtroom sequence brings projectors into the courtroom to show newsreels of the lynch mob. Lang's camera placement, which directs our attention straight into the frame and rivets it to some person deep in the shot, culminates in this sequence. The projectors are wheeled straight in, high-angle; cut to reverse-angle as the screen is pulled down high-angle as the projectors are set running...
...crank who loves typographical errors-Charles Lindberg (page 23), P. G. Woodhouse (page 472), Charles Evens Hughes (page 503). The only-yesterday's narrator is a White Rabbit. Always he must hurry on. With more than 850 photographs and drawings, Phillips' documentary spews images at double-quick newsreel speed while spieling commentary at the tempo of a tobacco auctioneer...
While the protestors sat in on the second floor. Newsreel, a radical news media, flashed films and a slide show on Wednesday's confrontation with the police on the wall of the first floor rotunda. About 125 students watched...