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Union Maids is the best radical documentary since The Battle of Algiers. A study of three women CIO organizers in the '30s, the film intercuts contemporary material--newsreels and union songs--with interviews to produce a powerful portrait of these women as workers, as women, and as individuals. Much of the newsreel material is unusual and exciting--footage of hunger marches and strikes in Chicago and Detroit, for example--but it is the interviews which are the truly remarkable aspect of the film. These women, who were first interviewed by Staughton Lynd in Rank and File, are exceptionally articulate about...
Sickening Speed. Studio stuff, location stuff, newsreel footage, model shots - even outtakes from the classic turkey Tora! Tora! Tora! - are more or less artfully blended to give a vague feeling of what a modern naval engagement must be like - the large distances separating the antagonists when they launch their planes, the sickening speed with which the flames spread when they find their targets. But there is no real sense of the flow of fortune in the battle - the camera shies away from any at tempt at analysis. The Japanese, led by Toshiro Mifune, are neatly dressed and stoic (a useful...
Union Maids. A documentary about organizing women workers in the 1930s, this film employs interviews and newsreel footage to create a portrait of the rise of the CIO. We haven't seen this film, to be shown by the Haymarket People's Fund, but it sounds great...
...pioneering social science surveys of the early 20th century and it was further elaborated in the 1930s by a series of innovative photographers and cinematographers. William Stott of the University of Texas at Austin has recently argued that documentary journalism, broadcasting and film-along with soap operas, newsreel houses, "inside" books, photo and news magazines-appeal to an imagination that "seeks the texture of reality" by fixing upon particulars...
Hindenburg's destruction. This is rather artfully managed through a blending of newsreel footage and well-matched black-and-white fictional material showing what happened to the movie's characters during the holocaust. Again, however, technique not drama holds...