Word: newsreelers
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When a fire truck screams down a city street, you often get a feeling of cosmic disunity--someone somewhere is suffering, you think--and instantly a newsreel image of a three-story building burning to the ground or a fireman rescuing a screaming kid comes to mind. Urbanites equate uncontrolled fire with property damage and loss of life. Thus fires are bad; they must be stopped...
...Clair Bourne, a producer of the National Educational Television program, Black Journal, screened and discussed the three films: "Huey;" "Riot Control;" and one entitled "Newsreel." Actually Bourne, who has a masters' degree from Columbia in TV-filmmaking, was more interested in the significance of the films than in the films themselves...
...Newsreel," composed of a non-chronological series of shots having no immediate relationship to each other, was produced by an avant-garde film company of the same name. One scene depicted a memorial service for Malcom X at a Harlem school; the next, a panel discussion in Newark of Harold Cruse's The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual...
...that Watkins used can be called phony cinema verite. Cinema verite is the filming of something normal, spontaneous, not interfered with by a director. Watkins wanted his film to look like that, even though, of course, it was not that. Orson Welles used this same technique in the opening newsreel sequence of Citizen Kane...
...presents a Boston newsreel program of movement films tonight at 8 p.m. at 2 Divinity Avenue. One of the films, "Black Panthers," is an interview in prison, with Huey Newton, the Minister of Defense for the Oakland Black Panthers...