Public Broadcast Laboratory; 203; Can This Be America?

leo lights those dues be reality correspondent edward p morgan really america means many things to many people are we a wildly disparate population disputing over everything or do we share enough in common in that used to hold this rich but hubble republic together one of current history shoppers to revealing things as they are or is the movie camera three months ago in the midst of the long lumbering presidential election campaign the public broadcast laboratory sought out some of the artisans we'll go over and you lose your phone record the american city each with his own distinctive style but with an identifiable political perspective the pressures of time and money or a lack of them squeeze the options so that in the end this assignment for beauty our second season went to only six people join the sneakers leroy jones and pincus and david norman wendell niles jr and ricki leacock each was asked to do his own thing a common ground rules were

simple one make a personal statement on the state of the union so to speak at the end of nineteen sixty eight on film in color and natural style and to begin a statement on the steps of the nation's capitol in washington what we're about to see is their handiwork something about ourselves about our films of people and then when they want to say something about the only well you know i can go to the rainbow rainbow then let that we're going to have more thing the more we have not fight it out and if they don't we make an effort to repeat i can have it all and nobody can handle a lot of the hair they will be welcome now going to be wrong on that we're moving to a

republican who when he lived in london and generate needed like people like you and people around her team of lucas and david neuman of the youngest most radical filmmakers who accepted our invitation having met at harvard as undergraduates ten years ago vegas in human using similar to techniques have found the american establishment in several earlier film treatments of contemporary social contract i would not want to fight we got a great record that what we should be reassured about the outputs are part of that about the people that country i think we we can say that we were willing to do or when the box and the one of the aca was and what we are what we found was boy

you have to have a big part of our life but i will be a part of it the pope it anymore i'll agree with you i don't like the war and i'm sure the situation or an attitude that prevailed among a great number of our citizens were for her role on the ticket at when i was young i would very partial toward helping labor organized labor the matter of fact i went down with the separate out the minute it on tonight we had bad condition

i did what i could to prove and then i went along and did what i could to work going forward with it and make about them i felt for my family or for everyone around me and we have the beautiful community we have your beautiful homes we have many standards that are delightful in so far as living covers a concern and some of the neo soul called for people are reality enjoying many more of a comfort that led the line new car and those that is that my recovery to our people enjoy thirty or forty years ago within the role to make it as i remained within the game of thing that they did not that we shouldn't about that we should try to correct many of the things that are not bow and socially and economically but i think i'm a medley yeah i never know i found a couple ways

to accomplish our goal in the world culturally politically the playful i joined the new york state's national guard which the day was a state militia but it would also are you in the event of a strike you have to be prepared to bear i'm kate international markets you would subject to immediate call and i would get on their hearts and i didn't think you have to be a cowboy you're taking the indian but i thought of my daughter being the country choir and they gave me a certain dignity writing poems was quite an achievement my with my background bank robbery call him

it'll block any likelihood that any way to any similar that you might think you like our live you did only related to the fact that i'm involved in an amnio not or trapped the fishing game in the world for me like i like to tell people go fishing i do everything i do because i enjoy doing and i try to do it well and i cried in mutt minute i can go and it really properly to the community have remade properly the nih who are that the navy will and whenever i do is going to have to provide something in the way of a service or product to people and to my absolute not something we ought to live in a very

very great day the beauty and bring greater than beautiful thing great country and a lot of people for example where i make printed text or haven't i been going through forty years of my life i know that thirty years ago he delivered his way out of jail we coordinate the part of the court that aren't happy on that day we can live and do deliver the same quality a better quality are the fabric with pen colors or beautiful with much were excluded nine hundred people are getting a whole lot more needs only to the fact that with climate agreed to flee on a possible without without the event of a problem we would be beating us about that time for a selfish motivation again this is a very odd way to make money and power

yeah oh yeah before going to war ah man the lighting he worked for me when i talk in an odd way to hell with him i tried to invite the way they know and i've done that and i don't believe that because you've managed though you want to cut the islanders that that the truth the free country up in slavery wrought by one they get five advantage over the word father conley jr no one child the announcement and you know it was like you know there are a lot and i think that's where we all want to get some of it you feel that they have no chance you can get that cadillac automobile from time that a house on the ocean you feel that it can

seem like they don't think i'm a kind man i have done this work for you like can i get a little more you added a what you think about that one when they're all right that's what would improve here for you know a little difficult to speak right off the copy of that if something like that would include dream any special hope that you like two thank you i have quite a few was very calm but very able them are laws that their promotion so you know there's been a particularly good days to talk about that they had been out of the beginning of it is not easy for the band out they are

representative even though in my own mind i view very able to defend a modern day that they have been among a bunch of manufacturers though it would be a novelty it would be an experience an eye and out as a black man he fell but then he became involved in that he left the job ruin learning inexpensive ten thousand dollars a year and he disappeared it would have very high grade or language you know that can happen to anyone and it can happen to white people but it didn't happen to him if that happened to a whiteboard that happen to a black man oh mighty respect and highly be wiped out money back so i have the week i get the mail and i do it with aggravated because he probably i like the man and why did he have to wind up an informant you would do

to a situation that destroyed a lot of my respect for him click here we are a movement is where we'll have more things for more people which is what most of the have nots bit about which is what they'd find out and if they want to make an effort and an attempt to retrieve these things they can have it all nobody can have it on the women behind me but there's a lot to be happy and in a memo to the leak of those among us and like really strong day and my frustration that my i met the political lessons that pipeline i wish i could

i wanted to be just right and i'll come along that was drawing their lives in the line that can generate because i know that i knew i had brought me to life and rugged live you were like working here you will find a job yet i won't even cutting fabric to be code for twenty five years i was a onetime the delivery boy and i work my way up into a particular field and there's some people i feel like i know my work and i have nothing in addition you have command of what i do i manage folk pop and then i'm going to get to a point that it's quite advantageous for the firm and that they just think

well of course you had no good you know i'm wondering whether how i am now louis when you have the life jonas make a socially critical for new york's political history by playing technique of making ocean pictures has won him the adoration of young underground filmmakers in america now an american citizen because was born in lithuania and imprisoned by the nazis during world war two his personal contributions to canvas the americas stops on the way to the capital

today i went to washington dc for training dog than portraying women go to washington and the lime jell o it took about a once thriving through the tree industry and the top before the need for formal and discontent with you get out to form a fade away over an indicator that they want a crack in the capital though many may collapse in a minute and when the very end i don't detect alone would collapse and the head when do you pick and then the removal like a few narrow hut believe prayer

we need help from the guard here who didn't have all the creek what you had a couple of three i create nothing to treat the crabs are important for important thing to be giving on russia for more than anyone oh no bruno that your part of the key that they've gotten there thingy

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nationality and how we only call them in part because this is what the city of newark new jersey will be for us black people once we begin to north so we're winning hello roy jones prize winning playwright and novelist sees america in terms of the coverage of black americans to achieve identity self confidence and political power in the cities they increasingly dominating numbers mr jones ignored the bpl criteria that huge personal statement begin at the us capitol building concentrating instead on the more familiar environs of the ghetto of his native newark new jersey america now

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we are ensuring that we are the new princes are getting you to the parties mayor here

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on the very elements of the community all the very elements of black organization of the highest the most elemental the center of what we need on all in all larry a nation is organization at its highest most violent level the realization of the whole the whole people in motion i need now

black revolution black life of revolution it's been a week a nice

nina aida the midst of a political campaign the year of the pan reading black consciousness in a city where black has more than sixty five percent of the villains authorities well remember maggie

all nine were blacked out but they know when you've been on that people you might in the air in a way that i could be worth a vitally needed where you're a you could be on the worried that people were there we are

we all live on the line the way we live yeah really mm hmm

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he's only one guy evasion and writing that counts the demonstration will be done by the length and the humane teacher of big bio it i know we must learn how to live so our self defense self respect healing valley i mean that's given the temper and what you do when you walk in there and it maximize the banana man they yeah then the aim and the lack of any weapon in

a barber now i'm like that guy is not how they can at the height of fear that made me believe that the role of that woman in her to be a woman and to be a woman we're not know when to be admitted went to be aggressive and fit it all time then yeah now they and i'm rainman brain injury and they're actually mean a male relative a concrete thing that didn't have that been uneven and and and

and the plan mm hmm communicate that consciousness you know all of our community

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has been to we will we will each of his art or disappear partisan politicians rationality turned into with eagles to change the news you know second season

sort of an experiment in the visual arts with the presentation of independently produced films statements on the american scene can this be america continues in one the whole second season continues

the foam with just completed the public view of the most important problems facing the various by using the experience of political point of view really true mr hunt as a man along dedicated to preserving the principles that made our country legally republicans today has been an example of what our free enterprise system after this extremely close presidential election you were one of the most important areas where president elect nixon in united nations in solving the problems that face we revealed overall going to filmmakers

and to see the world from the left hand side of their camera after a hard search the deal discovered wendell niles jr of california former president of liberty bells and longtime and illustrator of films with a deep conservative you know is as comfortable with traditional filmmaker techniques and his chosen the following seems himself or his personal contribution to can this be america's only actor walter run an hour ms niemann with president nixon's new administration you must floss all the most basic of domestication that have been undermining the foundation of our great republic the solution to the problems of

poor americans cannot come from the granting of government aid to the individual the individual must be willing to be training or retrain at a scale or occupation week and then threw out with an hour ride to elevate his financial inadvertently and standard of living the basic problem then is to instill in your pride in our country through the concept of being probably individual skills ability achievements our government will provide financially for the occasion for the navy and although there is an appeal of education we will make breakthroughs that should have been made on the part of my friends i don't know i worry it has always been the traditional american way to work that you achieve success

it is easy to be philosophical but in truth you cannot legislate love and understand the us all the growing unrest riding civil disorder and crime among the people of our nation while and you definitely not be as one very important problem facing a new administration's the problems of the youth of america and now generation as some people call it those discontent of young people cannot be and will not be their lives of our troops and the problems facing the atom our leaders and voters husbands and wives and yet many of them will never reach maturity because the money we're growing drug problem that exists in our land today it is a terrible problem which can be agile and stamp out but the young people themselves that will necessitate the assistance of a overnight more involved a double it and better political parental artificial as school solution that presently exists the great majority of young people

on these like clean cut and those few students and other activists have on young americans to have come along in the history of our country unfortunately the press too often does not cover their everyday investors achievements but instead rose out their representatives to cover student demonstrations and riots which of a disappointing end by a very small minority of the nation's young people as we look at the problems facing america we cross the nation starts with the dallas texas the great southwest metropolis that like many lives cities must face the problems without any like urban area today today we're calling on a gel on the man who represents the greatest living example of what the american dream can produce the analysts from a relatively modest

beginnings as the firemen the day was done in the wealthiest private citizen in the world though it out we like that you some questions from your standpoint of the great and that he was the vote some other problems facing the new nixon administration look president elect of nineteen sixty eight is affective in and ministering his offices as campaign promises indicate he will be they do and they will be rather than what we have in the administrations of the first have been doing drugs i made that promise and people are going right by some of the kids lived out what about the advisors veterans of the debate will be far more important cabinet members in

turn have to have employers that they are them are women we take the bird he has thirty five years who have been slammed group of voters are the elder is an arabic for her years and years ago you know and when people are in the rest of it and no group are a very important question this had been one of the most interesting and closest elections in our nation's history because of the substantial role and the influence of the early candidate george wallace of alabama if you cannot talk about the maintenance of

lawnmower lot being charged as someone at an evil and something as being bed and it's a sad day and it's a sad day that you got was a street that was it was about it at my own part of us it is the walking in a village at night knowing you're white will enable liberals will ride the transit system like they are political aspirations and one reason for that is the court's miranda right to the government i'm probably about eighty three mr seaney and i'm just a recognition that not receive a live a manageable of the new book mushroom myself out of the political thinking in our country review of the most important areas we cannot the nation is in the ear of young people of today this is truly balanced young bill that would involve him in college she's a secretary who like to ask your opinion on the problems that young people face today is that albanian people of america gave the new administration and had just

been elected i believe that the value of the terms of the main logic and routine instead of maintain this the call not warren this revolutionary and without perhaps make the best health administration i know that if i would go back to being an individual relying on their own talents and merit resources to help gradually make these changes that they want so badly that we would have left the violence that occurs in our nation faced that i you know he started with the individual approach so many individual i wanted to be individuals on the line and that changes all the time well these individual there are no longer any individual very hippie or new young generation of men that have our national anthem i thought the marble

situation and that there is no intelligent newspaper handed out their act violently because making the changes in this manner or in your opinion are the major issues facing the incoming administration cryin and the cost to the crime and whether or not the candidates are going to take over which of course that say they're going to and they don't know that could happen and outcomes are not outnumbered two hundred and one million people but the elation and this hall the answer

art world you and the ball and vinegar over don't quarrel with those who had to go through how rare a show of the sec didnt six hundred and seven to one vote the calmness and wouldn't sound engineer there and there's a little more dedication we can win and win winning amounts to save any republican can and a workable a public

radio and workable republican alike can you feel that the movement is representative of the young people of our nation i know a lot of the hippie movement and although the hippies hippies and one another call represent only had they killed them out of our nation's young people the problem to us them that also feel is there at the at the fact that currently the fact that each of them are well thank you don't get all the nominee is that i'm marnie kind of moves and so

the fact that they're dropping this ended talks about that he knew these young people in pain oh my gosh are these our future leaders wanted the nation who means that we have know how it's going to be tomorrow and the majority add to the normal activities tonight bag and that they're thinking we're getting a black that that generation because that the minority i enjoy young people we're a fine individual an end we realize that we're going to combat intelligently the conclusion and been and when they got bad majority and his black hat be removed from our generation as a businessman was associated them not only the oil business but in the overall economic areas of filing manufacturing and retail distribution sales what is

your opinion on what this administration must do with the economy moving along at a brisk pace what do sensible and that new plan that goes rancid role of the unmarked to have that to have the reagan the narrative to demonstrate on the camera and so the new idea for the meaning of that may have been largely out of the administration you as well spanning united states we're now flying that metropolitan area that come with every problem on the political horizon

since your own conscience on these issues facing our next great remember you are an american who has these you and make you could write a way to do something positive about keeping it strong and say so politically elected official and more important agencies and additionally it is the power of the law abiding american border there is democracy in action and real barn more choices and each and everyone else we want this week any as

destiny film i can go into a situation or thought he missed my son go from kenya lucky and vote and to get some of them in this instance i chose to visit the conventions on thousands of police chiefs their wives want to be my friend now from coal worked with him i guess i can play the patients he's a very powerful people and a leading orchestra like handheld camera technique of similar to a revealing carpenters camera freely into the action he's photographed it we got was born with an educated at harvard and was a combat cameraman world war two it was really the party of the american scene beginning of the special us capitol i know

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grenades which are available or send smoke the seattle that the tear gas the cs and also video another thing that has come up this year that we're ready but added to the line your backbone of it is the ones the riot with a range of projectiles either come rain or flight right eye which will be useful birthday or handling crowds were you wanna in addition to that we have and this is a cutaway mahler we have a potshot you know the issue with that is not legal in the fire on the roundabouts and to stop rather factory right into your they're viciously attacked united near magical control and this gives you much more than get you another additional weapon makes it more versatile your engine i have done this is they sent to step in you must have this versatile stuff like like talbert an achievable a projectile behind a

crowded with the wind or what it does because of it on top of the greek revival it was a tongue in the hold up the book but the book it's required reading they see it the piece the piece the piece they teach the real warfare that they say kill white people you want to be a black panther you got killed one policeman and then this sort of thing that's really terrorizes the black community as well as the white community that i care about my approach by the

people every day why do you think this week you may need to be patient

oh really it's been just too much and take

a peek or are you really identify that there was a lot of that and what i mean by the nineteen twenties basically what you have to do it

save your life it's been ages but here i think you'd think that begins with more on

and on on about him and where humans that one other long term goals now

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public television station in rochester new york which is seeking additional funds when we were on public television stations of the inputs which of the deal with traditional things relating the deal's second season it's been it has been

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