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James Stewart / Robert Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
directed by Gregory Monro, 1975-; produced by Céline Loiseau, fl. 2007, TS Productions (Paris, Ile-de-France: The Party Film Sales, 2017), 57 mins
With his gauche manner and his slender but reassuring figure, Stewart embodies a successful life; he’s the kind of guy everyone would like to be like. Mitchum, with his legendary nonchalance and his hangdog look is more like the loveable rogue everybody would like to have as partner. When they shared top billing...
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directed by Gregory Monro, 1975-; produced by Céline Loiseau, fl. 2007, TS Productions (Paris, Ile-de-France: The Party Film Sales, 2017), 57 mins
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With his gauche manner and his slender but reassuring figure, Stewart embodies a successful life; he’s the kind of guy everyone would like to be like. Mitchum, with his legendary nonchalance and his hangdog look is more like the loveable rogue everybody would like to have as partner. When they shared top billing in the 1978 The Big Sleep, these two actors, who had incarnated the American spirit for more than half a century, certainly did not su...
With his gauche manner and his slender but reassuring figure, Stewart embodies a successful life; he’s the kind of guy everyone would like to be like. Mitchum, with his legendary nonchalance and his hangdog look is more like the loveable rogue everybody would like to have as partner. When they shared top billing in the 1978 The Big Sleep, these two actors, who had incarnated the American spirit for more than half a century, certainly did not suspect that they would both embark upon eternal sleep on almost the same day in 1997.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Céline Loiseau, fl. 2007, TS Productions
Author / Creator
Gregory Monro, 1975-
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
The Party Film Sales
Person Discussed
Robert Mitchum, 1917-1997, James Stewart, 1908-1997
Topic / Theme
World War II, 1939-1945, War and Violence
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2017 Film Platform
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KPFA On The Air
directed by Veronica Selver, fl. 1975-2014; produced by Veronica Selver, fl. 1975-2014 (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 2000), 56 mins
KPFA On the Air pays tribute to the oldest and most ambitious independent, community-based media in the world, KPFA radio. Novelist Alice Walker narrates the vibrant and stormy history of the first listener-sponsored station. KPFA On the Air is a case study of the pitfalls and possibilities confronting any experim...
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directed by Veronica Selver, fl. 1975-2014; produced by Veronica Selver, fl. 1975-2014 (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 2000), 56 mins
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KPFA On the Air pays tribute to the oldest and most ambitious independent, community-based media in the world, KPFA radio. Novelist Alice Walker narrates the vibrant and stormy history of the first listener-sponsored station. KPFA On the Air is a case study of the pitfalls and possibilities confronting any experiment in media democracy.KPFA grew out of the conviction of Lew Hill and a small group of fellow World War II pacifists that the best hop...
KPFA On the Air pays tribute to the oldest and most ambitious independent, community-based media in the world, KPFA radio. Novelist Alice Walker narrates the vibrant and stormy history of the first listener-sponsored station. KPFA On the Air is a case study of the pitfalls and possibilities confronting any experiment in media democracy.KPFA grew out of the conviction of Lew Hill and a small group of fellow World War II pacifists that the best hope for peace in the dawning nuclear age was open dialogue between people of different points of view. They actualized these ideals in a listener-supported radio station which would offer ideas not products. Broadcasting for the first time in April 1949, KPFA became a rare voice for cultural and ideological pluralism during McCarthyism and the conformist 1950s. Alan Watts, Langston Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg and Linus Pauling shared the mike with Caspar Weinberger, Edward Teller, the father of the H-Bomb, and the John Birch Society.KPFA On the Air recounts how KPFA transformed itself into a voice for the radical movements of the 1960s. It surveys the station's spirited coverage of such events as the Civil Rights Movement, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the campus Anti-War Movement and the rise of the Black Panther Party.The documentary doesn't cover up the fractious culture of the station; rather it illustrates that communities are themselves in constant formation, change and contention. KPFA On the Air traces how after the movements of the 1960s, the station painfully reconfigured itself into a multi-cultural coalition of various programming collectives.As KPFA On the Air was being edited, the non profit Pacifica board which owns the station, fired a number of long-time programmers and subsequently locked out the KPFA staff. Rumors spread that the board might sell KPFA's frequency, and a mobilized, militant listenership took to the streets in protest, ultimately reestablishing community control over the station's programming.KPFA On the Air will astonish anyone who turns on a television, radio or computer as well as students of journalism, mass communications, and community sociology. It provides a rare glimpse of an alternative path for American media.KPFA On the Air is a presentation of the Indpendent Television Service (ITVS).
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Field of Study
Media Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Veronica Selver, fl. 1975-2014, Alice Walker, 1944-
Author / Creator
Veronica Selver, fl. 1975-2014
Date Published / Released
2000
Publisher
California Newsreel
Speaker / Narrator
Alice Walker, 1944-
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2000 California Newsreel
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Life Magazine's Best Photojournalists Tell Their Stories
directed by David Hoffman, fl. 2012; produced by David Hoffman, fl. 2012 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2005), 57 mins
David Hoffman captured the stories of 15 Life Magazine photographers for this TV special. Each photographer presents best photographs and tells behind-the-scenes stories of how they were made. The results are extremely valuable for photographers and photojournalists, but also emotional for other viewers who want t...
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directed by David Hoffman, fl. 2012; produced by David Hoffman, fl. 2012 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2005), 57 mins
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David Hoffman captured the stories of 15 Life Magazine photographers for this TV special. Each photographer presents best photographs and tells behind-the-scenes stories of how they were made. The results are extremely valuable for photographers and photojournalists, but also emotional for other viewers who want to relive some of the greatest moments of the 20th century, and some of the silliest as well. Narrated by Walter Cronkite.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
David Hoffman, fl. 2012, Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009
Author / Creator
David Hoffman, fl. 2012
Date Published / Released
2005
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Speaker / Narrator
Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009
Topic / Theme
Magazines (Publications), Photography
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2005. Used by permission of MVD Entertainment Group
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