Word: swastikaed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mora is experienced with the complex documentary--he achieved notoriety in the creative documentary field with Swastika, and earlier film depicting life in Nazi Germany. And his recent film is a painstakingly constructed documentary in which scenes from newsreels, feature films and home movies are continuously shown in quick succession. The presentation of the clippings Mora finally chooses follows the thread of his own historical outline of the period. And while Mora's treatment of events is roughly chronological, his personal influence in his juxtaposition of images is continually present...
Balmy Fictions. Much of Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? is given over to similarly novel footage: home movies of F.D.R. horsing around with his family during a swimming party; the Hindenburg, with a swastika painted on its tail, floating peacefully between the skyscrapers of Manhattan; Los Angeles, dawdling about growing, still a transposed prairie town set down in the middle of an antic oasis. There are also, intercut with fact, many of the best and balmiest fictions of the time: James Cagney, ever brash and streetwise, pushing mugs around; King Kong poking his head up through the el tracks...
...Force C-141 Starlifter. The Marc Plaza Hotel had already been thoroughly checked out by the Secret Service, and the Kissingers were quartered in a suite on the 24th floor that had been secured by the agents. (The only unexpected jarring note was the appearance of ten white-helmeted, swastika-decorated pickets from the freakish American Nazi Party...
...What 1973 Harvard event attracted women in men's clothing, men in women's clothing, and men and women in swastika armbands...
Blurred Copy. He returned to Princeton, where he has been teaching. V.P.S., with the support of the BBC, brought in Documentary Film Maker Lutz Becker (Swastika) to reshape Ophuls' original into something more to their liking. In March, a loyalist working on the production managed to get hold of a blurred work copy of the 4 hours 38 minutes of Ophuls' version and spirited it off to the U.S. Since then, Ophuls has screened the only existing copy of his film-"the version," he says, "I'll stand by"-for critics and friends, in an effort...