Documentaries (was Re: Jazz)

thomas robinson tomrob at ccwebster.net
Thu Jan 18 21:20:50 PST 2001


"You need to get with Titticut Follies and Welfare, among others. I'm blanking on the director, but these were pretty innovative and political in their time.

mbs"

Frederick Wiseman did "Titicut Follies", "Welfare", as well as "Near Death" and "High School". Word is that "High School" will appear as a "P.O.V" presentation this summer on PBS. Wiseman on the difference between ideology and practice at the Philadelphia high school in 1968 featured in his film: "The ideology was openness, trust, understanding, sharing,etc., and the practice was authoritarian: Obey orders, you know, the way to be a man."

not as old as Max Sawicky, but still showing my age,

Tom Robinson



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