Re: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

[Francisco Torres]

''Malcolm Le Grice - he worked with the USIA and American Embassy to
organise several screenings in London in the early 1970s, until they
reached a point where he felt that he could no longer collaborate with
them.''
Hmmm Disturbing. In the early 70's all we knew about the USIA and such
agencies came from State of Siege. Wait , that was the USAID.



And there is the Pollock thing

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

http://gizmodo.com/5686753/how-the-cia-spent-secret-millions-turning-modern-art-into-a-cold-war-arsenal

2016-08-03 1:02 GMT-04:00 Jeff Kreines :

> Adam:
>
> Sorry to be such a verité-Nazi….
>
> Best,
>
> Jeff
>
> > On Aug 2, 2016, at 11:44 PM, Adam Hyman  wrote:
> >
> > I accept your point; even right after I sent it, I debated whether
> > "verité" was correct.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Adam
> >
> > On 8/2/16 9:21 PM, "Jeff Kreines"  wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>> On Aug 2, 2016, at 11:08 PM, Adam Hyman  wrote:
> >>>
> > but uses the tools
> > of verité documentary to show the market, with the subtext
> > of how people
> >>
> >>
> >> I would have to disagree, as one of the primary elements of
> >> cinema-verité/direct cinema filmmaking is sync sound.  I realize this
> >> film was made to be usable without requiring subtitles, so there¹s no
> >> dialog ‹ but it¹s more ³early 60¹s documentary² style rather than
> >> ³verité² in my very sectarian opinion!
> >>
> >>
> >> Jeff Kreines
> >> Kinetta
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Re: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

[Jeff Kreines]

Adam:

Sorry to be such a verité-Nazi….

Best,

Jeff

> On Aug 2, 2016, at 11:44 PM, Adam Hyman  wrote:
> 
> I accept your point; even right after I sent it, I debated whether
> "verité" was correct.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Adam
> 
> On 8/2/16 9:21 PM, "Jeff Kreines"  wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 2, 2016, at 11:08 PM, Adam Hyman  wrote:
>>> 
> but uses the tools
> of verité documentary to show the market, with the subtext
> of how people
>> 
>> 
>> I would have to disagree, as one of the primary elements of
>> cinema-verité/direct cinema filmmaking is sync sound.  I realize this
>> film was made to be usable without requiring subtitles, so there¹s no
>> dialog ‹ but it¹s more ³early 60¹s documentary² style rather than
>> ³verité² in my very sectarian opinion!
>> 
>> 
>> Jeff Kreines
>> Kinetta
>> j...@kinetta.com
>> kinetta.com
>> 
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Re: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

[Adam Hyman]

I accept your point; even right after I sent it, I debated whether
"verité" was correct.

Best regards,

Adam

On 8/2/16 9:21 PM, "Jeff Kreines"  wrote:

>
>> On Aug 2, 2016, at 11:08 PM, Adam Hyman  wrote:
>> 
 but uses the tools
 of verité documentary to show the market, with the subtext
 of how people
>
>
>I would have to disagree, as one of the primary elements of
>cinema-verité/direct cinema filmmaking is sync sound.  I realize this
>film was made to be usable without requiring subtitles, so there¹s no
>dialog ‹ but it¹s more ³early 60¹s documentary² style rather than
>³verité² in my very sectarian opinion!
>
>
>Jeff Kreines
>Kinetta
>j...@kinetta.com
>kinetta.com
>
>
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Re: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

[Jeff Kreines]

> On Aug 2, 2016, at 11:08 PM, Adam Hyman  wrote:
> 
>>> but uses the tools
>>> of verité documentary to show the market, with the subtext
>>> of how people


I would have to disagree, as one of the primary elements of 
cinema-verité/direct cinema filmmaking is sync sound.  I realize this film was 
made to be usable without requiring subtitles, so there’s no dialog — but it’s 
more “early 60’s documentary” style rather than “verité” in my very sectarian 
opinion!


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Re: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

[Patrick Friel]

The National Archives YouTube channel has TONS of great films up. Many in
720p.

All public domain.


On 8/2/16 11:08 PM, "Adam Hyman"  wrote:

> Thank you Patrick for taking the two minutes and finding that.  I should
have
> as well; didn't even cross my mind.  It's nice that the NA might be
posting
> these.

On 8/2/16 11:52 AM, "Patrick Friel" 
> wrote:

>FYI: GRAND CENTRAL MARKET is on YouTube @ 720p, uploaded by the
> National
>Archives.
>
>Searching for "U.S. Information Agency" on YouTube
> draws over 1700 results
>(though those would need to be checked to see which
> are actually USIA
>films).
>
>Patrick Friel
>
>
>
>On 8/2/16 12:23 PM, "Adam
> Hyman"  wrote:
>
>> Directed by William Hale - sorry
> forgot his name.
>
>On 8/2/16 10:11 AM, "Adam
>> Hyman" 
> wrote:
>
>>For another angle, one film to look at
>> is "Grand Central Market"
> (1963)
>>who also directed a film on the Watts
>> Towers, filmed by Haskell
> Wexler,
>>edited by Mel Sloan and visible as a
>> shopper at the eponymous
> market in
>>downtown LA is Lelia Goldoni, star of
>> Cassevetes's SHADOWS, who
> was
>>friends with Wexler I believe.  Distributed by
>> USIA, not available to
> be
>>seen in the US for 25 years, and now available at
>> the National
> Archives
>>(and I have a file).  It isn't on-the-nose propaganda,
>> but uses
> the tools
>>of verité documentary to show the market, with the subtext
>> of
> how people
>>of multiple backgrounds and ethnicities are able to come
>>
> together
>>peacefully in the grand American world of commerce.
>>
>>The
> best
>> resource to see the films is the National Archives of the
> United
>>States, the
>> College Park branch, where copies of most or all of
> the USIA
>>films went to be
>>
> archived.
>>https://www.archives.gov/research/catalog/
>>
>>For example, if
> you
>> type in Grand Central Market, they have two listings.
>>I happen to
> know from
>> ordering it that one of those copies doesn't exist
>>anymore, but
> they have
>> one.  Those identfiers are the info you need.  They
>>are not
> available online,
>> unless someone has posted it on YouTube.  They
>>are all
> public domain.  Ignore
>> the year of creation (which relates to when
>>it was
> deposited at the NA), but
>> you can see
>>Creator: U.S. Information Agency.
> 1982-10/1/1999
>>
>>Here are
>> these two listings:
>>
>>GRAND CENTRAL
>>
> MARKET
>> n
>> 
> tral
>>%
>>20Market%22%2C%22rows%22%3A%2220%22%2C%22tabType%22%3A%22all%22%2C%
> 22
>> 
> facet
>>%
>>22%3A%22true%22%2C%22facet.fields%22%3A%22oldScope%2Clevel%2Cmater
> ia
>> 
> lsType
>>%
>>2CfileFormat%2ClocationIds%2CdateRangeFacet%22%2C%22highlight%22%
> 3A
>> %22true
>>%
>>22%7D&sr=0>
>>From RG: 306
>>Moving Images Relating to
> U.S. Domestic
>> and International Activities
>>PORTRAYS ACTIVITY IN A LOS
> ANGELES, CA. FOOD
>> STORE - GRAND CENTRAL MARKET.
>>SHOWS VENDORS,
> REPRESENTING THE MELTING POT
>> THAT IS AMERICA, SELLING THEIR
>>WARES TO
> PEOPLE
>>National Archives Identifier:
>> 50048  Local Identifier: 306.3714
> Creator:
>>U.S. Information Agency.
>> 1982-10/1/1999
>>
>>
> 
>>GRAND CENTRAL
>>
> MARKET
>> n
>> 
> tral
>>%
>>20Market%22%2C%22rows%22%3A%2220%22%2C%22tabType%22%3A%22all%22%2C%
> 22
>> 
> facet
>>%
>>22%3A%22true%22%2C%22facet.fields%22%3A%22oldScope%2Clevel%2Cmater
> ia
>> 
> lsType
>>%
>>2CfileFormat%2ClocationIds%2CdateRangeFacet%22%2C%22highlight%22%
> 3A
>> %22true
>>%
>>22%7D&sr=1>
>>From RG: 306
>>Moving Images Relating to
> U.S. Domestic
>> and International Activities
>>PORTRAYS ACTIVITY IN A LOS
> ANGELES, CA. FOOD
>> STORE - GRAND CENTRAL MARKET.
>>SHOWS VENDORS,
> REPRESENTING THE MELTING POT
>> THAT IS AMERICA, SELLING THEIR
>>WARES TO
> PEOPLE
>>National Archives Identifier:
>> 47130  Local Identifier: 306.346
> Creator:
>>U.S. Information Agency.
>> 1982-10/1/1999
>>
>>
>>You can also
> search on
>>U.S. Information Agency.
>> 8/1/1953-3/27/1978
>>This gives you
> thousands of listings.  Limit it to motion
>> pictures, etc.
>>
>>Best
> regards,
>>
>>Adam Hyman
>>Los Angeles
>> Filmforum
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>On 7/31/16
> 5:17 AM, "Mark Webber" 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Dear
> Ben
>>>
>>>You might want to speak to Malcolm Le Grice - he
>> worked with the
> USIA and
>>>American Embassy to organise several screenings in
>> London in
> the early
>>>1970s, until they reached a point where he felt that he
>> could
> no longer
>>>collaborate with them. These events included the Whitneys,
>>
> Oskar
>>>Fischinger, Stan Vanderkbeek and Lillian Schwartz.
>>>
>>>Email me
> off
>> list if you¹d like Malcolm¹s contact details.
>>>
>>>Mark
>>>

> Date: Fri, 29
>> Jul 2016 13:13:03 -0400
 From: Ben Ogrodnik
> 

>> Subject: [Frameworks] leads for research on
> USIA and avant-garde film?

>> 
 Hi all,
 I'm interested in
> conducting a bit of research on the
>> film-rela

Re: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

[Adam Hyman]

Thank you Patrick for taking the two minutes and finding that.  I should
have as well; didn't even cross my mind.  It's nice that the NA might be
posting these.

On 8/2/16 11:52 AM, "Patrick Friel"  wrote:

>FYI: GRAND CENTRAL MARKET is on YouTube @ 720p, uploaded by the National
>Archives.
>
>Searching for "U.S. Information Agency" on YouTube draws over 1700 results
>(though those would need to be checked to see which are actually USIA
>films).
>
>Patrick Friel
>
>
>
>On 8/2/16 12:23 PM, "Adam Hyman"  wrote:
>
>> Directed by William Hale - sorry forgot his name.
>
>On 8/2/16 10:11 AM, "Adam
>> Hyman"  wrote:
>
>>For another angle, one film to look at
>> is "Grand Central Market" (1963)
>>who also directed a film on the Watts
>> Towers, filmed by Haskell Wexler,
>>edited by Mel Sloan and visible as a
>> shopper at the eponymous market in
>>downtown LA is Lelia Goldoni, star of
>> Cassevetes's SHADOWS, who was
>>friends with Wexler I believe.  Distributed by
>> USIA, not available to be
>>seen in the US for 25 years, and now available at
>> the National Archives
>>(and I have a file).  It isn't on-the-nose propaganda,
>> but uses the tools
>>of verité documentary to show the market, with the subtext
>> of how people
>>of multiple backgrounds and ethnicities are able to come
>> together
>>peacefully in the grand American world of commerce.
>>
>>The best
>> resource to see the films is the National Archives of the United
>>States, the
>> College Park branch, where copies of most or all of the USIA
>>films went to be
>> archived.
>>https://www.archives.gov/research/catalog/
>>
>>For example, if you
>> type in Grand Central Market, they have two listings.
>>I happen to know from
>> ordering it that one of those copies doesn't exist
>>anymore, but they have
>> one.  Those identfiers are the info you need.  They
>>are not available online,
>> unless someone has posted it on YouTube.  They
>>are all public domain.  Ignore
>> the year of creation (which relates to when
>>it was deposited at the NA), but
>> you can see
>>Creator: U.S. Information Agency. 1982-10/1/1999
>>
>>Here are
>> these two listings:
>>
>>GRAND CENTRAL
>> MARKET
>>> tral
>>%
>>20Market%22%2C%22rows%22%3A%2220%22%2C%22tabType%22%3A%22all%22%2C%22
>> facet
>>%
>>22%3A%22true%22%2C%22facet.fields%22%3A%22oldScope%2Clevel%2Cmateria
>> lsType
>>%
>>2CfileFormat%2ClocationIds%2CdateRangeFacet%22%2C%22highlight%22%3A
>> %22true
>>%
>>22%7D&sr=0>
>>From RG: 306
>>Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic
>> and International Activities
>>PORTRAYS ACTIVITY IN A LOS ANGELES, CA. FOOD
>> STORE - GRAND CENTRAL MARKET.
>>SHOWS VENDORS, REPRESENTING THE MELTING POT
>> THAT IS AMERICA, SELLING THEIR
>>WARES TO PEOPLE
>>National Archives Identifier:
>> 50048  Local Identifier: 306.3714 Creator:
>>U.S. Information Agency.
>> 1982-10/1/1999
>>
>> 
>>GRAND CENTRAL
>> MARKET
>>> tral
>>%
>>20Market%22%2C%22rows%22%3A%2220%22%2C%22tabType%22%3A%22all%22%2C%22
>> facet
>>%
>>22%3A%22true%22%2C%22facet.fields%22%3A%22oldScope%2Clevel%2Cmateria
>> lsType
>>%
>>2CfileFormat%2ClocationIds%2CdateRangeFacet%22%2C%22highlight%22%3A
>> %22true
>>%
>>22%7D&sr=1>
>>From RG: 306
>>Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic
>> and International Activities
>>PORTRAYS ACTIVITY IN A LOS ANGELES, CA. FOOD
>> STORE - GRAND CENTRAL MARKET.
>>SHOWS VENDORS, REPRESENTING THE MELTING POT
>> THAT IS AMERICA, SELLING THEIR
>>WARES TO PEOPLE
>>National Archives Identifier:
>> 47130  Local Identifier: 306.346 Creator:
>>U.S. Information Agency.
>> 1982-10/1/1999
>>
>>
>>You can also search on
>>U.S. Information Agency.
>> 8/1/1953-3/27/1978
>>This gives you thousands of listings.  Limit it to motion
>> pictures, etc.
>>
>>Best regards,
>>
>>Adam Hyman
>>Los Angeles
>> Filmforum
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>On 7/31/16 5:17 AM, "Mark Webber" 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Dear Ben
>>>
>>>You might want to speak to Malcolm Le Grice - he
>> worked with the USIA and
>>>American Embassy to organise several screenings in
>> London in the early
>>>1970s, until they reached a point where he felt that he
>> could no longer
>>>collaborate with them. These events included the Whitneys,
>> Oskar
>>>Fischinger, Stan Vanderkbeek and Lillian Schwartz.
>>>
>>>Email me off
>> list if you¹d like Malcolm¹s contact details.
>>>
>>>Mark
>>>
 Date: Fri, 29
>> Jul 2016 13:13:03 -0400
 From: Ben Ogrodnik 

>> Subject: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

>> 
 Hi all,
 I'm interested in conducting a bit of research on the
>> film-related
 activities of the United States Information Agency (USIA)
>> during the
1960s
 and 1970s.
 
 I am curious about the range of
>> film projects and filmmakers promoted
by
 USIA (for example, the 1959
>> *Glimpses of the USA* project by Charles
and
 Ray Eames), 

Re: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

[Patrick Friel]

FYI: GRAND CENTRAL MARKET is on YouTube @ 720p, uploaded by the National
Archives.

Searching for "U.S. Information Agency" on YouTube draws over 1700 results
(though those would need to be checked to see which are actually USIA
films).

Patrick Friel



On 8/2/16 12:23 PM, "Adam Hyman"  wrote:

> Directed by William Hale - sorry forgot his name.

On 8/2/16 10:11 AM, "Adam
> Hyman"  wrote:

>For another angle, one film to look at
> is "Grand Central Market" (1963)
>who also directed a film on the Watts
> Towers, filmed by Haskell Wexler,
>edited by Mel Sloan and visible as a
> shopper at the eponymous market in
>downtown LA is Lelia Goldoni, star of
> Cassevetes's SHADOWS, who was
>friends with Wexler I believe.  Distributed by
> USIA, not available to be
>seen in the US for 25 years, and now available at
> the National Archives
>(and I have a file).  It isn't on-the-nose propaganda,
> but uses the tools
>of verité documentary to show the market, with the subtext
> of how people
>of multiple backgrounds and ethnicities are able to come
> together
>peacefully in the grand American world of commerce.
>
>The best
> resource to see the films is the National Archives of the United
>States, the
> College Park branch, where copies of most or all of the USIA
>films went to be
> archived.
>https://www.archives.gov/research/catalog/
>
>For example, if you
> type in Grand Central Market, they have two listings.
>I happen to know from
> ordering it that one of those copies doesn't exist
>anymore, but they have
> one.  Those identfiers are the info you need.  They
>are not available online,
> unless someone has posted it on YouTube.  They
>are all public domain.  Ignore
> the year of creation (which relates to when
>it was deposited at the NA), but
> you can see
>Creator: U.S. Information Agency. 1982-10/1/1999
>
>Here are
> these two listings:
>
>GRAND CENTRAL
> MARKET
> tral
>%
>20Market%22%2C%22rows%22%3A%2220%22%2C%22tabType%22%3A%22all%22%2C%22
> facet
>%
>22%3A%22true%22%2C%22facet.fields%22%3A%22oldScope%2Clevel%2Cmateria
> lsType
>%
>2CfileFormat%2ClocationIds%2CdateRangeFacet%22%2C%22highlight%22%3A
> %22true
>%
>22%7D&sr=0>
>From RG: 306
>Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic
> and International Activities
>PORTRAYS ACTIVITY IN A LOS ANGELES, CA. FOOD
> STORE - GRAND CENTRAL MARKET.
>SHOWS VENDORS, REPRESENTING THE MELTING POT
> THAT IS AMERICA, SELLING THEIR
>WARES TO PEOPLE
>National Archives Identifier:
> 50048  Local Identifier: 306.3714 Creator:
>U.S. Information Agency.
> 1982-10/1/1999
>
> 
>GRAND CENTRAL
> MARKET
> tral
>%
>20Market%22%2C%22rows%22%3A%2220%22%2C%22tabType%22%3A%22all%22%2C%22
> facet
>%
>22%3A%22true%22%2C%22facet.fields%22%3A%22oldScope%2Clevel%2Cmateria
> lsType
>%
>2CfileFormat%2ClocationIds%2CdateRangeFacet%22%2C%22highlight%22%3A
> %22true
>%
>22%7D&sr=1>
>From RG: 306
>Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic
> and International Activities
>PORTRAYS ACTIVITY IN A LOS ANGELES, CA. FOOD
> STORE - GRAND CENTRAL MARKET.
>SHOWS VENDORS, REPRESENTING THE MELTING POT
> THAT IS AMERICA, SELLING THEIR
>WARES TO PEOPLE
>National Archives Identifier:
> 47130  Local Identifier: 306.346 Creator:
>U.S. Information Agency.
> 1982-10/1/1999
>
>
>You can also search on
>U.S. Information Agency.
> 8/1/1953-3/27/1978
>This gives you thousands of listings.  Limit it to motion
> pictures, etc.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Adam Hyman
>Los Angeles
> Filmforum
>
>
>
>
>On 7/31/16 5:17 AM, "Mark Webber" 
> wrote:
>
>>Dear Ben
>>
>>You might want to speak to Malcolm Le Grice - he
> worked with the USIA and
>>American Embassy to organise several screenings in
> London in the early
>>1970s, until they reached a point where he felt that he
> could no longer
>>collaborate with them. These events included the Whitneys,
> Oskar
>>Fischinger, Stan Vanderkbeek and Lillian Schwartz.
>>
>>Email me off
> list if you¹d like Malcolm¹s contact details.
>>
>>Mark
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 29
> Jul 2016 13:13:03 -0400
>>> From: Ben Ogrodnik 
>>>
> Subject: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?
>>>
> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> I'm interested in conducting a bit of research on the
> film-related
>>> activities of the United States Information Agency (USIA)
> during the
>>>1960s
>>> and 1970s.
>>> 
>>> I am curious about the range of
> film projects and filmmakers promoted
>>>by
>>> USIA (for example, the 1959
> *Glimpses of the USA* project by Charles
>>>and
>>> Ray Eames), as well as the
> regions of the world where such films were
>>> toured during USIA's existence.
> Anyone know of an archive or resource
>>>that
>>> might direct me toward this
> information ?
>>> 
>>> Alternatively, if anyone can point me to scholarly
> articles on USIA and
>>>its
>>> forays into independent filmmaking and
> exhibitions, I'd be most
>>> appreciative.
>>> 
>>> Thanks

Re: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

[Adam Hyman]

Directed by William Hale - sorry forgot his name.

On 8/2/16 10:11 AM, "Adam Hyman"  wrote:

>For another angle, one film to look at is "Grand Central Market" (1963)
>who also directed a film on the Watts Towers, filmed by Haskell Wexler,
>edited by Mel Sloan and visible as a shopper at the eponymous market in
>downtown LA is Lelia Goldoni, star of Cassevetes's SHADOWS, who was
>friends with Wexler I believe.  Distributed by USIA, not available to be
>seen in the US for 25 years, and now available at the National Archives
>(and I have a file).  It isn't on-the-nose propaganda, but uses the tools
>of verité documentary to show the market, with the subtext of how people
>of multiple backgrounds and ethnicities are able to come together
>peacefully in the grand American world of commerce.
>
>The best resource to see the films is the National Archives of the United
>States, the College Park branch, where copies of most or all of the USIA
>films went to be archived.
>https://www.archives.gov/research/catalog/
>
>For example, if you type in Grand Central Market, they have two listings.
>I happen to know from ordering it that one of those copies doesn't exist
>anymore, but they have one.  Those identfiers are the info you need.  They
>are not available online, unless someone has posted it on YouTube.  They
>are all public domain.  Ignore the year of creation (which relates to when
>it was deposited at the NA), but you can see
>Creator: U.S. Information Agency. 1982-10/1/1999
>
>Here are these two listings:
>
>GRAND CENTRAL MARKET
>%
>20Market%22%2C%22rows%22%3A%2220%22%2C%22tabType%22%3A%22all%22%2C%22facet
>%
>22%3A%22true%22%2C%22facet.fields%22%3A%22oldScope%2Clevel%2CmaterialsType
>%
>2CfileFormat%2ClocationIds%2CdateRangeFacet%22%2C%22highlight%22%3A%22true
>%
>22%7D&sr=0>
>From RG: 306
>Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities
>PORTRAYS ACTIVITY IN A LOS ANGELES, CA. FOOD STORE - GRAND CENTRAL MARKET.
>SHOWS VENDORS, REPRESENTING THE MELTING POT THAT IS AMERICA, SELLING THEIR
>WARES TO PEOPLE
>National Archives Identifier: 50048  Local Identifier: 306.3714 Creator:
>U.S. Information Agency. 1982-10/1/1999
>
> 
>GRAND CENTRAL MARKET
>%
>20Market%22%2C%22rows%22%3A%2220%22%2C%22tabType%22%3A%22all%22%2C%22facet
>%
>22%3A%22true%22%2C%22facet.fields%22%3A%22oldScope%2Clevel%2CmaterialsType
>%
>2CfileFormat%2ClocationIds%2CdateRangeFacet%22%2C%22highlight%22%3A%22true
>%
>22%7D&sr=1>
>From RG: 306
>Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities
>PORTRAYS ACTIVITY IN A LOS ANGELES, CA. FOOD STORE - GRAND CENTRAL MARKET.
>SHOWS VENDORS, REPRESENTING THE MELTING POT THAT IS AMERICA, SELLING THEIR
>WARES TO PEOPLE
>National Archives Identifier: 47130  Local Identifier: 306.346 Creator:
>U.S. Information Agency. 1982-10/1/1999
>
>
>You can also search on
>U.S. Information Agency. 8/1/1953-3/27/1978
>This gives you thousands of listings.  Limit it to motion pictures, etc.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Adam Hyman
>Los Angeles Filmforum
>
>
>
>
>On 7/31/16 5:17 AM, "Mark Webber"  wrote:
>
>>Dear Ben
>>
>>You might want to speak to Malcolm Le Grice - he worked with the USIA and
>>American Embassy to organise several screenings in London in the early
>>1970s, until they reached a point where he felt that he could no longer
>>collaborate with them. These events included the Whitneys, Oskar
>>Fischinger, Stan Vanderkbeek and Lillian Schwartz.
>>
>>Email me off list if you¹d like Malcolm¹s contact details.
>>
>>Mark
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 13:13:03 -0400
>>> From: Ben Ogrodnik 
>>> Subject: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> I'm interested in conducting a bit of research on the film-related
>>> activities of the United States Information Agency (USIA) during the
>>>1960s
>>> and 1970s.
>>> 
>>> I am curious about the range of film projects and filmmakers promoted
>>>by
>>> USIA (for example, the 1959 *Glimpses of the USA* project by Charles
>>>and
>>> Ray Eames), as well as the regions of the world where such films were
>>> toured during USIA's existence.  Anyone know of an archive or resource
>>>that
>>> might direct me toward this information ?
>>> 
>>> Alternatively, if anyone can point me to scholarly articles on USIA and
>>>its
>>> forays into independent filmmaking and exhibitions, I'd be most
>>> appreciative.
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>> 
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Ben
>>> 
>>> -- 
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>>> PhD student
>>> K. Leroy Irvis Fellow
>>> Department of Film Studies // History of Art and Architecture
>>> University of Pittsburgh
>>> b...@pitt.edu
>>
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Re: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

[Adam Hyman]

For another angle, one film to look at is "Grand Central Market" (1963)
who also directed a film on the Watts Towers, filmed by Haskell Wexler,
edited by Mel Sloan and visible as a shopper at the eponymous market in
downtown LA is Lelia Goldoni, star of Cassevetes's SHADOWS, who was
friends with Wexler I believe.  Distributed by USIA, not available to be
seen in the US for 25 years, and now available at the National Archives
(and I have a file).  It isn't on-the-nose propaganda, but uses the tools
of verité documentary to show the market, with the subtext of how people
of multiple backgrounds and ethnicities are able to come together
peacefully in the grand American world of commerce.

The best resource to see the films is the National Archives of the United
States, the College Park branch, where copies of most or all of the USIA
films went to be archived.
https://www.archives.gov/research/catalog/

For example, if you type in Grand Central Market, they have two listings.
I happen to know from ordering it that one of those copies doesn't exist
anymore, but they have one.  Those identfiers are the info you need.  They
are not available online, unless someone has posted it on YouTube.  They
are all public domain.  Ignore the year of creation (which relates to when
it was deposited at the NA), but you can see
Creator: U.S. Information Agency. 1982-10/1/1999

Here are these two listings:

GRAND CENTRAL MARKET

From RG: 306
Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities
PORTRAYS ACTIVITY IN A LOS ANGELES, CA. FOOD STORE - GRAND CENTRAL MARKET.
SHOWS VENDORS, REPRESENTING THE MELTING POT THAT IS AMERICA, SELLING THEIR
WARES TO PEOPLE
National Archives Identifier: 50048  Local Identifier: 306.3714 Creator:
U.S. Information Agency. 1982-10/1/1999

 
GRAND CENTRAL MARKET

From RG: 306
Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities
PORTRAYS ACTIVITY IN A LOS ANGELES, CA. FOOD STORE - GRAND CENTRAL MARKET.
SHOWS VENDORS, REPRESENTING THE MELTING POT THAT IS AMERICA, SELLING THEIR
WARES TO PEOPLE
National Archives Identifier: 47130  Local Identifier: 306.346 Creator:
U.S. Information Agency. 1982-10/1/1999


You can also search on
U.S. Information Agency. 8/1/1953-3/27/1978
This gives you thousands of listings.  Limit it to motion pictures, etc.

Best regards,

Adam Hyman
Los Angeles Filmforum




On 7/31/16 5:17 AM, "Mark Webber"  wrote:

>Dear Ben
>
>You might want to speak to Malcolm Le Grice - he worked with the USIA and
>American Embassy to organise several screenings in London in the early
>1970s, until they reached a point where he felt that he could no longer
>collaborate with them. These events included the Whitneys, Oskar
>Fischinger, Stan Vanderkbeek and Lillian Schwartz.
>
>Email me off list if you¹d like Malcolm¹s contact details.
>
>Mark
>
>> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 13:13:03 -0400
>> From: Ben Ogrodnik 
>> Subject: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> I'm interested in conducting a bit of research on the film-related
>> activities of the United States Information Agency (USIA) during the
>>1960s
>> and 1970s.
>> 
>> I am curious about the range of film projects and filmmakers promoted by
>> USIA (for example, the 1959 *Glimpses of the USA* project by Charles and
>> Ray Eames), as well as the regions of the world where such films were
>> toured during USIA's existence.  Anyone know of an archive or resource
>>that
>> might direct me toward this information ?
>> 
>> Alternatively, if anyone can point me to scholarly articles on USIA and
>>its
>> forays into independent filmmaking and exhibitions, I'd be most
>> appreciative.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance!
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> Ben
>> 
>> -- 
>> Ben Ogrodnik
>> PhD student
>> K. Leroy Irvis Fellow
>> Department of Film Studies // History of Art and Architecture
>> University of Pittsburgh
>> b...@pitt.edu
>
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Re: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

[Gene Youngblood]

Alexander Hammid worked for a well-known studio (I’m forgetting the man’s  
name) that produced those kinds of films, often multiscreen.



> On Jul 30, 2016, at 3:15 PM, Chuck Kleinhans  
> wrote:
> 
> Given your interest in the Eames, you might consider  as roughly within the 
> “experimental” realm films made for Fairs, Expositions, trade festivals, etc. 
>  These were often one time installations, but broke from “conventional” 
> forms..  Though they were often made by people who were established as 
> commercial designers, etc.
> 
> 
> Chuck Kleinhans
> chuck...@northwestern.edu 
> 
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Re: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

[Chuck Kleinhans]

Given your interest in the Eames, you might consider  as roughly within the 
“experimental” realm films made for Fairs, Expositions, trade festivals, etc.  
These were often one time installations, but broke from “conventional” forms..  
Though they were often made by people who were established as commercial 
designers, etc.


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Re: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

[Scott Dorsey]

This is absolutely true, and many of the space program films were very
beautifully made.  Many are still available on 16mm from Marshall Space
Flight Center.
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Re: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

[Richard Herskowitz]

Yes, James Blue's film THE MARCH was sUSIA film, and it's sympathetic picture 
of the Civil Rights movement and acknowledgment of racism drew some 
Congressional attacks. 

Richard Herskowitz
Artistic Director, Houston Cinema Arts Festival
Director of Programming, Ashland Independent Film Festival

285 Spyglass Drive
Eugene, Oregon 97401

> On Jul 30, 2016, at 11:02 AM, Chuck Kleinhans  
> wrote:
> 
> While not avant garde in the usual sense, various people who lived abroad at 
> that time told me that the films of the US Space Program were among the most 
> seen USIA films.  They were available from Embassies and consulates and 
> sought after not only for their spectacular images, but for being not 
> obviously didactic, as so many of the other USIA films were.  Also these 
> films were free to nonprofits like schools.
> 
> As you know, but others may not, Congress prohibited USIA films from being 
> shown in the USA itself: Congress reisted the idea of the Executive branch 
> making “propaganda” to be seen at home.  Many take it that the Civil Rights 
> movement was a major thing Congress wanted to block any discussion of.
> 
> 
> 
> Chuck Kleinhans
> chuck...@northwestern.edu
> 
> 
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Re: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

[Chuck Kleinhans]

While not avant garde in the usual sense, various people who lived abroad at 
that time told me that the films of the US Space Program were among the most 
seen USIA films.  They were available from Embassies and consulates and sought 
after not only for their spectacular images, but for being not obviously 
didactic, as so many of the other USIA films were.  Also these films were free 
to nonprofits like schools.

As you know, but others may not, Congress prohibited USIA films from being 
shown in the USA itself: Congress reisted the idea of the Executive branch 
making “propaganda” to be seen at home.  Many take it that the Civil Rights 
movement was a major thing Congress wanted to block any discussion of.



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Re: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

[Buck Bito - Movette]

Hi Ben,
I would suggest posting on the Association of Moving Image Archivists'
list-serv as well. Here is a post from 2013 that references a book by a
former USIA employee:
http://lsv.uky.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1302&L=AMIA-L&P=R18346&I=-3

List-serv sign-up is here:
http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/amia-l.html

-Good luck,
--Sincerely,
---Buck Bito - Movette Film Transfer
www.movettefilm.com


On Fri, July 29, 2016 10:13 am, Ben Ogrodnik wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm interested in conducting a bit of research on the film-related
> activities of the United States Information Agency (USIA) during the 1960s
> and 1970s.
> ...
> --
> Ben Ogrodnik
> PhD student
> K. Leroy Irvis Fellow
> Department of Film Studies // History of Art and Architecture
> University of Pittsburgh
> b...@pitt.edu
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