Third World Newsreel (TWN) Brings Historic Newsreel Retrospective to BAM, Anthology Film Archives, and DOK Leipzig

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October 17, 2025

Third World Newsreel (TWN) Brings Historic Newsreel Retrospective to BAM, Anthology Film Archives, and DOK Leipzig

Digitally Preserved Works from the Newsreel Collective Return to Screens in New York and Germany

NEW YORK, NY – Third World Newsreel (TWN), the long-standing media arts center dedicated to social justice media by and about historically marginalized communities, announces theatrical screenings of its Newsreel Retrospective (1968–1972) at three major venues this fall: Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Anthology Film Archives, and DOK Leipzig in Germany.

The Newsreel Retrospective features newly digitized films documenting the social movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. These films—produced by the original Newsreel collective—capture the immediacy of grassroots organizing, from Black and Brown liberation to anti-war protests, feminist struggles, and housing justice.

“These films remind us that communities have long resisted oppression and built power together,” says JT Takagi, Executive Director of TWN. “We’re honored to bring these stories to audiences in theaters, where their impact can be felt collectively.”

On November 12, former Newsreel members Tami Gold, Bev Grant and Heather Lewis will participate in a post-screening Q&A at BAM.

This retrospective marks the culmination of a two-year initiative led by JT Takagi and Film Archivist Draye Wilson to digitally preserve 60 early Newsreel films, with preservation work completed at Metropolis in New York City.

Upcoming Screenings

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BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)

November 12, 2025

BAM offers two film programs and a talk with Newsreel members: one devoted to activism in New York City, the other focusing on liberation struggles in Guatemala and Palestine.

Newsreel in New York, November 12 at 7:00 PM

• El Pueblo Se Levanta (People Are Rising)
• Lincoln Hospital
• The Wreck of the New York Subway
• Post-screening Q&A with former Newsreel members Bev Grant, Tami Gold, and Heather Lewis

Newsreel and Imperialism, November 12, 9:15 PM

•  My Country Occupied
• Revolution Until Victory aka We Are the Palestinian People

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Anthology Film Archives

 November 14-20, 2025

Anthology presents a multi-day series of Newsreel Retrospective films, including works that have not been seen in decades. The program will highlight the collective’s radical filmmaking practices and their enduring relevance to contemporary struggles.

Newsreel: Feminist Films Program 1, November 14 at 6:45 PM and November 17 at 6:45 PM

• Jeannette Rankin Brigade,
• Up Against the Wall Miss America,
• She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,
• Make-Out
• Childcare 

Newsreel: Feminist Films Program 2, November 14 at 8:45 PM and November 20 at 6:45 PM

• The Woman’s Film
• Janie’s Janie 

Newsreel: Black Panthers, November 15 at 6:00 PM and November 20 at 8:45 PM

• Black Panther
• May Day Panther
• Bobby Seale
• Either Or 

Newsreel: Police Brutality, November 15 at 8:00 PM and November 18 at 8:30 PM

• The Haight
• Pig Power
• Yippie
• Riot Control Weapons
• America 

Newsreel: Labor, November 16 at 6:00 PM and November 17 at 8:30 PM

• Mill-In
• Garbage
• Union
• Wilmington
• Pa Bell Go to Hell
• Felix Revolt 

Newsreel: Housing, November 16 at 8:15 PM and November 18 at 6:45 PM

• The Case Against Lincoln Center
• Break and Enter

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DOK Leipzig (Germany)

 October 27 – November 2, 2025

As part of the festival’s Retrospective 2025: “Un-American Activities”, DOK Leipzig will feature films from the Newsreel Collective and Third World Newsreel alongside works by other U.S. activist filmmakers from the 1960s–80s.

October 29 at 18:00

• Black Panther 

November 7 at 18:00

• Army
• My Country Occupied
• Teach Our Children 

November 7 at 20:30

•  Break and Enter
• The People’s Firehouse No. 1

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Booking and More Information

The Newsreel Retrospective is available for additional bookings through 2026. Thematic programming and guest speakers are available upon request.

Press Contact:

JT Takagi

twn@twn.org

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About Third World Newsreel

Since 1968, Third World Newsreel has advanced movement storytelling and media arts for cultural and social justice. We champion the self-representation of historically marginalized communities—including Black, Indigenous, Latine, Asian, Pacific Islander, African, Middle Eastern, Mixed/Multiracial, People with Disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ individuals—through diverse genres and forms of media, such as documentary, experimental, and fiction. Our comprehensive support includes hands-on training, fiscal sponsorship, educational distribution, and preservation, all designed to advance cultural justice and societal change.

About Draye Wilson

Draye Wilson is an audiovisual archivist based in New York City. Currently, Draye is working with Electronic Arts Intermix, Meredith Monk’s House Foundation for the Arts, and Third World Newsreel. Previously, Draye has worked with organizations such as Blank Forms, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research. Draye is particularly interested in working with underground and radical material, as well as experimental cinema and music. 

About Tami Gold

A documentary filmmaker, educator and artist, Tami Gold’s films include “Every Mother’s Son”; “Juggling Gender: Politics, Sex and Identity”; “Out At Work: Lesbian And Gay Men On The Job”; “Another Brother”; and her first film “My Country Occupied.” She has received Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and Fulbright Fellowships; Tribeca Audience Award; GLAAD Media Award; Urban Visionaries Award, Museum of Television and Radio; NY/NJ Video Arts Fellowships; Excellence in the Arts Award from the Manhattan Borough President; AFI Independent Filmmakers Production Fellowship. Her films have been presented at MOMA, the Whitney, The Chicago Arts Institute, The Kennedy Center, the American and British Film Institutes, Sundance, Tribeca, The New York Film Festival, Slamdance and in over 150 film festivals worldwide. For three decades she taught filmmaking at Hunter College, where she directed the James Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism.

About Bev Grant

Bev Grant is a labor and social activist, feminist, singer-songwriter, photographer and filmmaker. She is the 2017 Joe Hill Award winner from the Labor Heritage Foundation for her cultural work, the 2017 winner of the ASCAP Foundation’s Jay Gorney award for her song “We Were There” about women’s labor history, a 2022 Pathmakers for Peace award from Brooklyn for Peace, and most recently a 2025 recipient of the Clara Lemlich award honoring unsung, life-long activists. She was a member of New York Newsreel from 1967 to 1972 and was a key participant in the production of “El Pueblo Se Levanta “and “Up Against the Wall Miss America.”

About Heather Lewis

Heather Lewis is Professor of Art and Design Education and former chair of Art and Design Education at Pratt Institute. Her historical research focuses on the intersection of urban social movements and educational reform in New York City. Her book about New York City’s community control movement in the 1960s, “New York City Public Schools from Brownsville to Bloomberg: The Community Control Movement and its Legacy” (2013), explores the history of grassroots organizing for educational justice in underserved communities during the Civil Rights and Black Power movement of 1960s and the subsequent educational and curricular reforms that followed in the 1970s. Lewis founded and directed Assessment for Learning at Pratt Institute which supported inclusive, cross-disciplinary faculty learning communities devoted to the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Lewis is currently the Co-President of the Pratt Senate, 2025-28.

About Films

America a.k.a. Amerika (Newsreel)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1969

Running Time: 30 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: Against the background of the escalation of the war in Vietnam, “America” documents the development of the anti-war movement on the home front. Conversations with Vietnam veterans, young teenagers, and African American militants contextualize footage that graphically depicts the heightened incidents of mass protest and police repression.

pe service and educate themselves and their communities about alternatives to combat.

Army a.k.a. Army Film (Newsreel #36)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Docudrama

Year Released: 1969

Running Time: 18

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: Shot in 1969, this film documents the building anger of draftees in the U.S.military, and the growth of the anti-war movement within the military. Soldiers are interviewed and seen as they face brutalizing treatment and indoctrination in boot camp, military training that made the war atrocities of the Vietnamese War all too possible as "just following orders". The film blasts the U.S. presence and foresees its future in Vietnam, while comparing the South and North Vietnamese armies and their reasons for fighting.

Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)

Directors: San Francisco Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1968

Running Time: 15 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967. This film contains a prison interview with Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton as well as an interview with Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver, footage of the aftermath of the police assault against the Los Angeles Chapter headquarters, demonstrations to free Huey at Hutton Memorial Park and the Alameda County Court House and a recitation of the party's Ten-Point Platform by co-founder Bobby Seale. One of Newsreel's most widely distributed films, it was originally released as "Off the Pig." This short film features drawings from activist artist Emory Douglas.

Bobby Seale a.k.a. Interview with Bobby Seale (Newsreel #44)

Directors: San Francisco Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1969

Running Time: 15 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: At the time of this moving prison interview, Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale had faced a series of charges of conspiracy in connection with his involvement in the Black Liberation and Anti-war movements. Here he talks about his treatment as a political prisoner and his involvement in the Black Liberation and anti-war movements.

Break and Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1971

Running Time: 42 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English Version and Spanish Version

Synopsis: This film captures the militant antecedents to the housing reclamation movement in New York City. In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the city. They pulled the boards off the doors, cleaned and repaired the buildings, and moved in. “Break and Enter” documents the activist work of Operation Move-In and the city's attempts to displace the families.

Childcare: People's Liberation (Newsreel #56)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1970

Running Time: 20 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: The film shows how community-run childcare centers are a step toward liberation by giving parents and children a chance to develop relationships with their peers and new relationships with each other.

Focusing on the need for childcare and what good childcare could be, the film interviews women who express their desperation to find a safe environment for their children, and shows them taking positive action. Filming in daycare centers in New York City, it records what good parent-controlled daycare could mean for children as well as parents.

Filmmakers Bonnie Friedman and Karen Mitnik said, "Being activist filmmakers, we were interested in showing everyday people taking control of their situation by utilizing empty community space to set up their daycare centers. Using equipment shared amongst several projects within the Newsreel collective, we shot mostly on the streets of New York City with a Bolex and Nagra for sound."

Either Or

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1970

Running Time: 11 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: In 1969, several members of the fledgling New Haven, CT, chapter of the Black Panther Party were arrested and charged with the murder of Alex Rackly, who was suspected of being a police informant. This short newsreel is built around interviews with Evon Carter, widow of slain Panther Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter, and Doug Miranda, who presided over the New Haven chapter and the creation of a broad-based coalition to defend the accused; it also features footage of Miranda addressing the 1970 May Day Rally. Though most Newsreel films about the Black Panthers focus on well-known, national figures in California, this short is unique in showing the grassroots organizing efforts of the East Coast Panthers as they attempted to implement community-based social programs while simultaneously battling severe harassment from local and federal authorities.

El Pueblo se Levanta (Newsreel #63)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1971

Running Time: 42 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English/Spanish

Translation available in: English Voice-over

Synopsis: In the late '60s, conditions for Puerto Ricans in the U.S. reached the boiling point. Faced with racial discrimination, deficient community services, and poor education and job opportunities, Puerto Rican communities began to address these injustices by using direct action. This film focuses on the community of East Harlem, capturing the compassion and militancy of the Young Lords as they implemented their own health, educational, and public assistance programs and fought back against social injustice. An excellent portrayal of urban organizing in the late 60s.

Felix Revolts a.k.a. Felix the Cat (Newsreel)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Animation

Running Time: 7 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: Newsreel’s first foray into animation finds them adding music and dialogue to the classic cartoon of the same title while also updating its political message to the late 1960s. Hungry and impoverished, Felix convinces his fellow cats to go on strike to achieve basic rights from their human overlords. When mice take over the town, and the cats are begged back to restore order, they negotiate a deal where cats, mice, and humans can live together in peace and with dignity.

Felix’s unruly rebelliousness and inventive problem solving were easy sources of identification for the New Left, which saw themselves in similar terms. Also, the revival of a cartoon from the 1920s extended the New Left to the Old Left and thus storied histories of the labor movement. A fun short showing a fascination with pop spectacle that characterized early Newsreel as well as groups it was affiliated such as the Yippies and Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker.

Garbage a.k.a. Garbage Demonstration (Newsreel #5)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1968

Running Time: 10 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: During a prolonged garbage collector's strike in New York City, a group of youths from the Lower East Side of Manhattan decided to use the situation to make a political statement. They collect garbage from the streets of their community and deposit piles of it on the grounds of Lincoln Center, "The Establishment's" cultural showcase.

Janie's Janie (Newsreel)

Directors: Newsreel , Geri Ashur , Peter Barton , Marilyn Mulford , Stephanie Palewski

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1971

Running Time: 25 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: Produced by The Newsreel collective, “Janie’s Janie” is an extraordinary document of the early 1970's women's movement. In this personal documentary, Jane Giese, a working-class woman in Newark, comes to realize that she has to take control of her own life after years of physical and mental abuse. As Janie says, "First I was my father's Janie, then I was my Charlie's Janie, now I'm Janie's Janie."

The "personal" aspect of the film was unusual for early Newsreel, and its very existence resulted from gender issue struggles within the collective itself. It is a document of a time and its issues, and of the efforts of feminists to give creative visual form to their concerns. Using both interviews and verité material, it is one of the more complex Newsreel films. Principal collaborators were: Geri Ashur, Peter Barton, Marilyn Mulford and Stephanie Palewski, with music by Bev Grant and Laura Liben.

Jeannette Rankin Brigade (Newsreel #4)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1968

Running Time: 8 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: In January 1968, 10,000 women led a peaceful march on Washington in protest against the Vietnam War. This film documents the march and raises questions about the forms of protest engaged by women and the role of women in the anti-war. Jeannette Rankin Brigade was the first Newsreel film proposed, shot and edited by women.

One of the Newsreel filmmakers, Lynn Phillips said about the film production, "We knew that Jeannette Rankin was coming east. Somehow we got a hold of a 16mm Bolex, plus the usual outdated film stock, and we took the train down. We had no budget, no sound, so there wasn't really any chance to make a historical document. Nevertheless, we felt that she was an important icon for women because she was a suffragette, a pacifist, and opposed to the war in Vietnam. Women had not shot anything or really authored any films in Newsreel at this point. I remember that my feeling was that I didn't have it together to make a significant film, but that women just had to GO and shoot something, just to create some momentum for women inside the organization. The film is more an artifact than a real film, but it played its role as a historical moment—where two generations of feminist briefly met."

Lincoln Hospital (Newsreel #35)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1970

Running Time: 11 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: When a city-run health clinic in the South Bronx fails to meet the needs of the city, local residents and health workers force a strike and then run the clinic themselves.

Make-Out (Newsreel #49)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Docudrama

Year Released: 1970

Running Time: 5 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: As a young couple make out in a car, we hear the woman's stream of consciousness thoughts. She worries about her reputation and whether he'll try to "go all the way." This film is best used with discussions and/or materials about date rape.

A short created by Geri Ashur, Andrea Eagan, Marcia Salo Rizzi, and Deborah Shaffer, and co-directed by Ashur and Peter Schlaifer, the film is a vibrant document of the early second-wave women's movement, and the concerns and thinking of young women at that time. This film is unique in the Newsreel collection, as it was filmed with actors, with a voice-over script created from a women's group discussion.

May Day Panther a.k.a. May Day (Newsreel #29)

Directors: San Francisco Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1969

Running Time: 15 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: This film documents a rally in San Francisco sponsored by the Black Panther Party. Kathleen Cleaver, Bobby Seale, and other speakers addressed thousands of protesters demanding more rights for African Americans and calling for the release of Huey P. Newton.

Mill-In a.k.a. The Christmas Mill-In (Newsreel #6)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1967

Running Time: 12 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: To raise the consciousness of New Yorkers, anti-war demonstrators took to the streets on fashionable Fifth Avenue on Christmas eve. To the dismay of the shoppers, their action snarled traffic and stunted holiday consumption.

My Country Occupied (Newsreel)

Directors: Tami Gold , Heather Archibald

Producers Credits: Newsreel

Genre: Docudrama

Year Released: 1971

Running Time: 30 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US/Guatemala

Original Language: Spanish

Synopsis: In this moving film, the personal testimonies of Guatemalan Indians, peasants, and guerrillas are dramatized to provide the narration for a powerful overview of the history of U.S. destabilization of democracy in Central America. “My Country Occupied” was inspired by the work of Cuban filmmaker Santiago Álvarez.

PA Bell Go to Hell (Newsreel)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1971

Running Time: 3

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: In April 1970, telecom workers from multiple unions across New York City engaged in a wildcat strike to secure better pay and improve working conditions. Newsreel’s film documents the street protests and picket lines that animated the strike, foregrounds the voices of striking workers who emphasize the racism and sexism that defined life on the job, and juxtaposes striking labor with corrupt management through montage. Short and agitational, it exemplifies how early Newsreel’s political commitments extended to the contemporary labor movement and its intersections with struggles against racism and sexism.

Pig Power (Newsreel #23)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1968

Running Time: 6 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: As students take to the streets in New York and Berkeley, the state violence that follows illustrates Chicago Mayor Daley's thesis that the police are there "to preserve disorder".

Revolution Until Victory a.k.a. We Are the Palestinian People (Newsreel #65)

Directors: San Francisco Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Running Time: 45 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: Filmed in Palestine by Newsreel, “Revolution until Victory” shows the refugee camps of the Middle East, the rise of the Palestinian Liberation Movement and Israel's relationship to Western imperialism. There is footage of the guerrillas in training, and interviews with Palestinian leaders and militants who work in many programs of the liberation struggle of the time.

Riot Control Weapons (Newsreel)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Running Time: 6 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: A visual presentation of some of the weapons that the police were using in uprisings around the country in the late 60s.

She's Beautiful When She's Angry (Newsreel #48)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1969

Running Time: 17 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: This film documents a play given at the March 28th, 1969, abortion rally by some very angry women. A beauty contestant is primed by her mother, her teacher, her boyfriend, an ad man, and a capitalist for the roles she must fulfill to be a successful winner.

The Case Against Lincoln Center (Newsreel #17)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1968

Running Time: 12 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: Spanish

Synopsis: More than 20,000 Latino families were displaced to make way for Lincoln Center, home to the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Symphony. This film examines the patrons of art, complex (corporations and wealthy families), and the culture displayed there. Juxtaposing the atmosphere of Lincoln Center with the vibrant street culture of a displaced neighborhood, the film correctly predicts the process by which the West Side was to be turned into a high-rent area for the upper middle class.

The Haight (Newsreel #21)

Directors: San Francisco Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1968

Running Time: 6 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: The San Francisco Haight community fights in the streets to defend their culture against brutal police oppression. Made by San Francisco Newsreel.

The Woman's Film (Newsreel #55)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1971

Running Time: 43 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States. The film delves into the lives of ordinary women from different races, educational levels and classes. Filmed mostly in small consciousness-raising groups, from which the women's movement grew, the women talk about the daily realities of their lives as wives, homemakers, and workers. They speak, sometimes with hesitancy, often with passion, about the oppression of women as they see it.

“The Woman’s Film” was made entirely by women in San Francisco Newsreel. It was a collective effort between the women behind the camera and those in front of it. The script itself was written from preliminary interviews with the women in the film. Their participation, their criticism and approval were sought at various stages of production.

The Wreck of the New York Subway (Newsreel #47)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1969

Running Time: 16 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: During the winter of 1969, the New York Transit Authority increased the public transportation fare from 20 cents to 30 cents--a 50% increase. Infuriated riders scrambled under turnstiles and through exit doors, refusing to pay the fare. In “The Wreck of the New York Subways,” riders and subway workers denounce the terrible conditions and constant fare increases. The film analyzes the vicious cycle of bonding the Transit Authority, which profits the banks at the expense of the taxpayers.

Union a.k.a. Oil Strike a.k.a. Richmond Oil Strike (Newsreel #25)

Directors: San Francisco Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1969

Running Time: 17 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: January '69, oil workers in Northern California struck, and for the first time, students at San Francisco State and the University of California were asked to join the union in the struggle. This action added a new dimension to the Movement in California. Made by San Francisco Newsreel.

Up Against the Wall Ms. America (Newsreel #22)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1968

Running Time: 6 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: "Here she comes…" At the 1968 Miss America pageant, demonstrators introduced a sheep as the appropriate winner. This entertaining short film shows how Women's Liberation activists used guerrilla theater to raise awareness of what Miss America really represents. The film was widely screened by the second wave women's movement and is a vivid document of the movement's activists in action.

This short film was the first film made by Bev Grant and Karen Mitnick Liptak, members of the Newsreel collective. Bev Grant said, "The movie came about because I was a member of NY Radical Women, a sort of coalition group, including WITCH and Redstocking who were planning the Miss America Beauty Pageant demo. Miriam Boxer and I had gained press passes as members of Liberation News Service and were sitting below the runway. Karen Mitnick and I had a Bolex camera and a Nagra recorder and Miriam shot stills. When Miss America took her walk, we filmed it and also caught some footage of the banner being unfurled over the balcony. This was the first film Karen and I had ever worked on."

Wilmington (Newsreel #30)

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Documentary

Year Released: 1970

Running Time: 15 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: This documentary is about a "company town." The DuPont family controls the state of Delaware as if it were a private kingdom through the giant DuPont Corporation. Their normal image as benevolent, philanthropic liberals is challenged when they called the National Guard into Wilmington after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to occupy the city for ten months. Through interviews and verité footage, the film exposes how the DuPont Corporation dominates its workers through its control of education, media, politics, and the economy.

Yippie

Directors: Newsreel

Genre: Experimental

Year Released: 1968

Running Time: 14 minutes

Color: B&W

Country: US

Original Language: English

Synopsis: Filmed as the official statement of the Youth International Party, this film is as freewheeling and irreverent as the Yippies themselves. It presents an overview of 1968 Chicago, Mayor Daley, and the pig the Yippies ran for president. The film juxtaposes orgy scenes from D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance" and Keystone Cops chases with Yippie antics in Chicago. The film also explores the issue of police brutality - both humorously and with an undercurrent of deep anger. This film was actually produced by and for Yippies; Newsreel adopted it in order to bring it to a wider audience.

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