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Representative photographs by the turn-of-the-century French photographer, Eugène Atget, with explanatory analysis by Berenice Abbott, a former protège of Atget.
Depicts Michael McClure, an experimental poet who has written in many styles, and Brother Antoninus, a Dominican lay brother who is distinguished as a poet because of his unique combination of poetry reading and dramatic encounters with his audiences. Touches upon McClure's use of hallucinogenic experimental system of developing poetry through the use of words printed on cards which are shuffled to create poems at random. Places the viewer in the audience during one of Brother Antoninus' celebrated readings.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Depicts Michael McClure, an experimental poet who has written in many styles, and Brother Antoninus, a Dominican lay brother who is distinguished as a poet because of his unique combination of poetry reading and dramatic encounters with his audiences. Touches upon McClure's use of hallucinogenic drugs for achieving poetry that speaks directly out of the emotions and his experimental system of developing poetry through the use of words printed on cards which are shuffled to create poems at random. Places the viewer in the audience during one of Brother Antoninus' celebrated readings.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Probes the characteristics distinguishing Black Humor from other literature. Explores its historical perspectives and present forms. Illustrates a series of line drawings while a synopsis of Friedman's novel Stern is read.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Introduces Claes Oldenburg, his studio, and his reasons for doing what he does. Shows how he works and presents many examples of his works, from plaster and enamel sculptures of food and clothing to his "soft sculptures" of ordinary household objects and furniture in canvas and vinyl. Depicts the opening of his major exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Traces the development of American jazz dance, from tap dancing through the stylized theatrical form of the 1900s and orchestrated jazz of the Thirties, to the cool, abstract music of the Sixties. Demonstrates the basic steps of tap dance (sand, shuffle, waltz clog, time step, buck and wing) as performed by Honi Coles. Presents Paula Kelly, Dudley Williams, and William Luther dancing to "Storyville, New Orleans" and the music recorded by Jelly Roll Morton, and Grover Dale and Michel Harty dancing in "Idiom 59" and to recorded music of the same title by Duke Ellington. Presents John Butler's choreography of music by Gunther Schuller (variations on a theme by John Lewis, ("django") danced by John Butler, Mary Hinkson, and Buzz Miller.
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Passacaglia, organ, BWV 582, C minor.
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Introduces four major choreographers--Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, and Hanya Holt--who revolted against the conventions of ballet to produce American modern dance. Employs film clips and still photographs taken in 1934 to show the dancers and their teachers during the beginning days at Mount Bennington College. Each choreographer explains her/his view of the meaning dance should have within the arts. Includes a full production of Doris Humphrey's Passacaglia by the American Dance
Introduces four major choreographers--Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, and Hanya Holt--who revolted against the conventions of ballet to produce American modern dance. Employs film clips and still photographs taken in 1934 to show the dancers and their teachers during the beginning days at Mount Bennington College. Each choreographer explains her/his view of the meaning dance should have within the arts. Includes a full production of Doris Humphrey's Passacaglia by the American Dance
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Documents the creation of a ballet, "Lovers," by Glen Tetley as well as an exploration of the costumes, music, storyline, choreography, stage sets, and people involved with the production itself. Illustrates what goes into a production of this nature and the integration of the parts into final performance. Shows the people involved during practice, in their studios and homes, and during the final performance on stage.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Introduces the personalities and works of Denise Levertov and Charles Olson through their readings and approaches to poetry. Shows Levertov in her home where she discusses her reasons for becoming a poet, her methods of work, and reads "Life at War," "Losing Track," "The Ache of Marriage," and "Two Angels." Visits Olson in his home where he describes and analyzes his concept of open verse composition and recites several of his poems, including "Letter 27 Maximus to Dogtown," and "The Librarian."
Portrays some of the learning of both students and instructors at the Harvard Medical School. Presents discussions of an instructor's first lecture, the meaning of academic freedom, and the reasons why a teacher must also be a researcher. Demonstrates a bedside teaching situation, a clinical conference dealing with pathology, and a brain-cutting operation conference.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Introduces the personalities and works of Frank O'Hara and Ed Sanders through their readings, environments, and approaches to their medium. Presents O'Hara reading "To the Film Industry in Crisis," "The Day Lady Dies," "Song," and "Having a Coke with You." Visits O'Hara's bookstore while he discusses his pacifism, literary rock-and-roll, his interest in filmmaking, and the content of some of his poetry. Shows Sanders in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York where he lives, in his bookstore. Describes an experience of his and the poem "Cemetery Hill" which came out of this experience.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Depicts Frank Stella and Larry Poons, two young New Abstractionists, in their studios painting and discussing their work.Concludes that these artists have instituted an innovation by exploiting repetition, emptiness, and monotony to produce their abstract works. Describes Stella's productions as high geometric polygons and Poon's current work as a counterpoint of dots on canvas.
Records the poetry and personality of Gwendolyn Brooks and the Chicago environment which provided the sources for most of her materials. Features Miss Brooks reading several of her poems, each accompanied by scenes of the people or locale described. Examines her method of working, the things she finds most pleasant in life, and the thrill of winning the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Attempts to reveal the personality of Hart Crane through his books and papers, and through interviews with his friends and associates. Presents the views of Malcolm Cowley, Waldo Frank, Gorham Munson, and Peggy Baird. Presents readings of several of Hart Crane's poems by actor Gary Merrill.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Introduces the abstract expressionism of Jack Tworkov and his feelings about the meaningfulness of his work, along with a description of the events which led him to become an artist. Presents him working on a painting, discussing his interest in producing what he calls organic form or shape by using a straight line and changing its contour while keeping its origin and end points the same. Shows several examples of his long-stroke abstract paintings which established him as one of America's major contemporary painters.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Presents the pop artist Jasper Johns in an interview in which he discusses his ideas about art; interspersed with scenes in which he is working on various works. Shows some of the flag paintings which anticipated the pop art movement of which he is one of the fathers. Includes examples of his subject matter--targets, flags, numbers, words, and maps. Depicts him working with encaustic medium in which the pigments are mixed with molten wax.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Introduces Jim Dine discussing his works and explains how they represent his life through the things familiar to him. Traces his artistic development through various periods: his "tie" period, his "cool" period, his "bathroom" period, and his "child's room" period, his "palette" period, and his "sculpture" period with his furniture-sculptures. Presents Dine in a short "happening" during which he explains that happenings developed out of the artist's need to speak more directly with the viewer.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Discusses the beliefs, concepts, and attitudes which have influenced the novels of John Updike. Presents several selections from short stories read by the author and accompanied by scenes which depict the narration.
Discusses the beliefs, concepts, and attitudes which have influenced the novels of John Updike. Presents several selections from short stories read by the author and accompanied by scenes which depict the narration.
Describes the contributions of Arthur Schawlow in the development of the ruby laser. Demonstrates, through a working model of atoms, how ordinary light is produced and how laser light is generated and controlled, and shows why getting the light under control is so difficult. Presents several sequences showing Schawlow's part in working out the physics behind the first successful laser.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Documents the economic and educational plight of the Negro tenant farmers in the southern United States. Shows that in spite of hard work in the fields, the tenant farmer, who earns on the average less than $1,000 a year, can provide his family with only the most meager existence. Demonstrates that he is constantly in debt to the white land-owner, his children cannot escape because the schools for them are hopelessly inadequate, and that the Negro tenant farmer's only hope is the recently obtained right to vote.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Interviews objectivist poet Louis Zukofsky as to the form and philosophy underlying his poetry, the circumstances under which his first poem was published, and several unique aspects of his poetry. Points out that while Zukofsky is not widely known, his poems and writings about poetry have had an important influence on his own and later generations. Includes readings of several of his works, such as "The," "Section Nine of 'A'," and "Bottom on Shakespeare."
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Introduces Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis, known as color-field painters among the New Abstractionists. Discusses their attitudes toward their works, and the factors and people influencing them. Shows examples of their works and those of Helen Frankenthaler.
Examines the various means of delivering nuclear weapons to distant targets and protecting these delivery systems from surprise attack. Discusses how the vulnerability of bombers to nuclear attack led to the development of various kinds of protected missile sites. Reviews the effectiveness of the U.S. defenses against bomber and/or missile attack.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Presents a discussion between Philip Roth, novelist and professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, and Jerre Manginne concerning Roth's stories and plays. Illustrates the relationship of his work to that of Saul Bellow, and discusses his reactions to critics' reviews.
[motion picture] Introduces the poetry of Philip Whalen and Gary Snyder and the reasons behind their works. Illustrates Whalen's reading of his poetry "Homage to Rodin" with pictures of the Palace of the Legion of Honor and Rodin's sculptures "The Thinker" and "The Shades." Presents Snyder reading from some of his poems, including "Hay for the Horses," "Above Pate Valley," and "The Market."
Warning: This film begins with combat footage and images of deceased soldiers.
Examines various methods of countering the possibility of governments using weapons of mass destruction and engulfing the major powers in an expanding local conflict. Presents some of the views held by international leaders and scientists on the potential dangers of chemical, bacteriological, and nuclear weapons, and some of the propositions by which the Western nations might cooperate to lessen these dangers.
Interviews Richard Wilbur and Robert Lowell (Pulitzer Prize winners) and explores their interests in poetic expression, and the origins of the ideas in their respective poems. Presents Wilbur reading "On The Marginal Way," "Love Calls Us To The Things of this World," and "Advice to a Prophet." Shows Lowell reading "Water," "Soft Wood," "A Flaw," "Fall, 1961," and "The Opposite House."
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Interviews Richard Wilbur and Robert Lowell (Pulitzer Prize winners) and explores their interests in poetic expression, and the origins of the ideas in their respective poems. Presents Wilbur reading "On the Marginal Way," "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World," and "Advice to a Prophet." Shows Lowell reading "Water," "Soft Wood," "A Flaw," "Fall, 1961," and "The Opposite House."
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Provides a candid view of poet Robert Creeley in his home and introduces his poetry. Presents him describing the influences of other literary figures on his works and explaining his own method of working. Includes readings of several of his poems, such as "La Noche," "The First Time," "The Place," and "Someplace."
Provides a candid view of poet Robert Creeley in his home and introduces his poetry. Presents him describing the influences of other literary figures on his works and explaining his own method of working. Includes readings of several of his poems, such as "La Noche," "The First Time," "The Place," and "Someplace."
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Studies the return of romanticism to contemporary poetry through the poetry of Robert Duncan and John Wieners. Presents Duncan reading several poems, including "The Architecture," and excerpts from "A Biographical Note" and "A Statement on Poetics." Shows Wieners, a student of Duncan, reading "A Poem for Painters," "Cocaine," and an excerpt from an unpublished prose work.
Studies the return of romanticism to contemporary poetry through the poetry of Robert Duncan and John Wieners. Presents Duncan reading several poems, including "The Architecture," and excerpts from "A Biographical Note" and "A Statement on Poetics." Shows Wieners, a student of Duncan, reading "A Poem for Painters," "Cocaine," and an excerpt from an unpublished prose work.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Examines several of Robert Rauschenberg's works, including "Oracle," a piece of "radio-sculpture," scenes from his theatrical works "Spring Training" and "Pelican," and a painting called "Barge." Discusses why, at the peak of his fame as a painter, Rauschenberg stopped painting altogether and how he feels about his art. Includes a discussion by Leo Castelli, an art dealer and friend of Rauschenberg, about the artist as a person and the significance of his works.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Introduces the humorist S.J. Perelman and his opinions on a wide variety of subjects. Discusses the authors who have influenced him and the reasons why a writer must imitate somebody. Concludes with a talk about reading, F. Scott Fitzgerald, travel, and Nathanael West.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Examines Richard Lippold's approach to the relationship between the artist's experience and the way in which he shapes it into its own organic form. Presents Lippod, a musician as well as sculptor, in his studio at the organ, and continues with some of his sculpture, including "The Sun." Shows shots of the sun and light in objects, people, animals, birds, and the sea as the types of experience providing inspiration to Lippold in creating "The Sun."
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Examines a number of opinions of Negro leaders as to the way the Negro should operate in his search for equality. Includes interviews with Elijah Muhammed of the Black Muslims; Daniel Watts, editor of Liberator magazine; Jimmy Garrett from the Congress of Racial Equality; Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; John Lewis, the co-founder, and Julian Bond of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee; Andrew Young of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and Bill Epton, candidate from the Progressive Labor Party.
Contrasts the areas of the world where there is an abundance of food with the areas where starvation is a way of life, and documents the pattern which has led to the lack of an adequate food supply. Reviews the history of the food crisis along with attempts at solutions. Covers areas including India, Libya, the Philippines, South America, Canada, Europe, and the United States.
Probes, in documentary style, the attempts which are made to solve the problems which have been brought about by the urban population explosion. Cites slum areas, racial unbalance in the schools, and the needs of untrained or illiterate rural immigrants as some of the elements involved. Points out projects in urban renewal and urban rehabilitation, bussing children from one school district to another, and antipoverty programs as attempted solutions.
Documents several experiments conducted at the Sleep Research Laboratory of the University of California at Los Angeles in studying the nature of sleep. Presents experiments to determine the relationship of dreams to stomach secretions, the amount of time infants spend dreaming, and the effects of depriving a subject of dreams. Shows the recording and interpretation of electrical impulses from a sleeping subject and the rapid eye movements during dreaming.
Presents scenes of natural objects typifying the things which inspire ceramist Dik Schwanke. Shows him at work in his studio, illustrating his methods of combining pottery and sculpture. Includes background music by the "Shags."
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Presents several interviews with Vladimir Nabokov, during which he talks freely about his life and work, his feelings about what the literary masterpieces of this country are, and what he thinks of American writing. Discusses the way he writes, and his past. Shows him informally walking about the village of Montreux, Switzerland, collecting butterflies and playing soccer and chess. Closes with a discussion, by Nabokov concerning his forthcoming novel.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Documents the life and work of William Carlos Williams, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, and physician. Illustrates his work with selected readings from letters, poems, and the autobiography of the poet. Shows still photographs of the poet as a young man and in his later years with his son, also a physician, practicing medicine in the local hospital.
The circus is a glorious mixture of many different acts, and the circus crowd is a glorious mixture of many different kinds of people with greatly varied taste. For some, the antics of the clowns are the most memorable parts of the show; for others, the grace and daring of the aerialists draw the loudest cheers; and there are some to whom the massive, lumbering elephants are the circus’s most exciting offering. This program is about the elephants (dubbed “bulls” in circus jargon). It also looks at two other important circus animals; the bears and the chimpanzees.
Discusses the two major aspects of the crime problem in the United States--police protection of citizens from crime and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders through training schools and reformatories. Aspects of these problems are examined by police experts, criminologists, and others. Methods of operation used by the Chicago Police Department are evaluated; training schools are visited; and their methods are contrasted with community programs designed to keep the juvenile from ever becoming a criminal.
Provides an opportunity for the viewer to compare the personality of Dorothea Lange, photographer-artist, with her work. Many of her photographs are presented; these cover various periods, such as the depression, World War II, and the growth of the urban sprawl in contemporary California. Lange is shown in her home as she states she is convinced the world is not being truly photographed at all today. To the present generation of photographers, she proposes a new photographic project with the cities of America as the subject--to be done on a scale comparable to that of the Farm Security Administration Photographic Project of the thirties.
Provides a close view of Dorothea Lange and her photographs, enabling the viewer to share her deep involvement in her work and her philosophy as a photographer. Looks in on Lange as she prepares for a one-woman exhibition of her work covering the past fifty years and comments on the reasons and emotions that have moved her to photograph particular scenes. Represents, with her death in October, 1965, a memorial to her and to the despair and hope which she captured so well in her documentary photographs.
