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DOOMED TO REPEAT IT!!! • I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE FBI (1951),
•FILM WORK (1981), • I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE FBI (1951)
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Unusual films of discernment, still presented in convivial surroundings!
ALL PRESENTED ON
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1st. Quartile
MARCH
AD 2007
ON THE FIRST MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH
(except JANUARYs!)
a community FilmEdSoc project,
WE CONTROL THE CONTENT
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Unusual films of discernment, still presented in convivial surroundings!
ALL PRESENTED ON
GROOVY 16 MILLIMETRE FILM!
the back room
714 NICHOLSON (CNR. SCOTCHMER) STREET,
NORTH FITZROY
splodgeburger@ yahoo.com
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1st. Quartile
MARCH
AD 2007
MONDAY 05th
Registration: 7.30 - 8.00 pm
Screening: >>>>> 8.00 (*EIGHT*!!!! ) pm <<<<<
TONIGHT: STRICTLY MEMBERS-ONLY
TONIGHT: STRICTLY MEMBERS-ONLY
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TONIGHT! -
DOOMED TO
REPEAT IT!!!
•FILM WORK
(1981)
TONIGHT! -
DOOMED TO
REPEAT IT!!!
•FILM WORK
(1981)
Norma Disher
Jock Levy, Keith Gow
FILM WORK raises a number of interesting issues concerning film, history and politics. During the height of the Cold War the Waterside Workers' Federation Film Unit produced eleven films for several trade unions on political and industrial issues. Independent film-makers worked with them to develop a critical dialogue from one generation of concerned film-makers onto another.
The film looks at sequences from four of the films ( PENSIONS FOR VETERANS, THE HUNGRY MILES, NOVEMBER VICTORY and HEWERS OF COAL ), and contains interviews with Keith Gow, Norma Disher and Jock Levy. [ Alternative title: UNION MADE ]. Dir: John Hughes. Prod: John Hughes. Participants: Norma Disher Jock Levy, Keith
Gow. Prod Co: Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia Film Unit. Phot: Margot Nash, Glenys Page. Ed: John Whitteron, Chris Warner, Viv Caroll. Prod Des: Phillip Bull. Mus: Andrew Duffield. Anim: Lisa Parrish, Ray Argall. Graphics: Merryl (Merryn?) Gates. Archival stills: Ian Cosier. Research: Brett Levy. Research: Ray Argall. Sound: John Whitteron. Sound editor: Tony Stevens. Asst. Editor: Viv Carroll. Cast: Jock Levy, Norma Disher, Keith Gow. 44 mins. ALC
followed by:
•I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE F.B.I.
(1951)
(1951)
"It's all here! Every breathless moment of the F.B.I.'s most relentless counter-attack!"
" I had to sell out my own girl - so would you! I was under the toughest orders a guy could get! I stood by and watched my brother slugged... I started a riot that ran red with terror... I learned every dirty rule in their book - and had to use them - because I was a communist - but I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE F.B.I. "
All the world may be a stage, but for Matt Cvetic and Herb Philbrick, real-life, volunteer undercover agents for Hoover's FBI throughout most of the 'forties, the courtroom was the venue that catapulted them into the glamorous world of show-biz.
F.B.I. mole Cvetic had infiltrated the Socialist-heavy Unions of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, while Philbrick had used his uncanny intelligence to penetrate Red cells in Boston. When the two of them testified independently in 1949 - helping to convict several top Party members of conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government [under the Smith Act] - their fortunes were as good as made.
Cvetic, a hard-drinking lout, who reportedly once thrashed his sister-in-law badly enough to hospitalize her, sold his first-person account to THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, which serialized his heroics as I POSED AS A COMMUNIST FOR THE FBI (written with
the help of Pete Martin). A radio series followed, with DANA ANDREWS as the undercover agent.
Then, in 1951, Warner Brothers' Jack L.Warner (RED NIGHTMARE, aka THE COMMIES ARE COMING, THE COMMIES ARE COMING, 1962), paid Cvetic $12,500.00 for the film rights, with Frank Lovejoy portraying the man who (it is suggested) single-handedly brought the Communist Party to its knees.
Incredibly, I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE F.B.I. was nominated for an Academy Award™ as the best documentary of the year!
(In case you may have missed the point, we hasten to add that the current wave of political insanity, fear-mongering and hysteria being orchestrated by the global forces of reaction, is a well-worn social-control technique in the furtherance of consolidated world domination. Don't let it happen again!
Remember, "representative democracy" is not true democracy. Now the Bastards are talking about outlawing light-bulbs in favour of narrow-spectrum fluros, for Pete's sake! If they DO it, expect massive rises in the rates of CANCER and MENTAL ILLNESS - both resulting from broad-spectrum light deprivation, already well-advanced through the "Sun-aversion" campaigns of the last few
decades! Not inclined to toe the line? Watch out, you might just suddenly be "disappeared" for "light-bulb terrorism"! - Wouldn't it be ironic if you wound up in Camp X-ray!)
Prod Co: Warner Brothers Pictures. Prod: Bryan Foy. Dir: Gordon Douglas. Scr: Crane Wilbur. Phot: Edwin DuPar. Ed: Folmar Blangsted. Cast: Frank Lovejoy, Dorothy Hart, Philip Carey, James Milligan, Richard Webb. 83 mins. NFVLS
Minor programme changes may occur due to unforseen
circumstances.
Feature runs last; shorts order may vary from listing.
* Acknowledging ACMI Inc. & ScreenSound Australia ;) *
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ADMISSION IS RESTRICTED TO MEMBERS FOR THIS PROGRAMME
Feature runs last; shorts order may vary from listing.
* Acknowledging ACMI Inc. & ScreenSound Australia ;) *
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ADMISSION IS RESTRICTED TO MEMBERS FOR THIS PROGRAMME
THIS IS A FILM SOCIETY SCREENING OPEN TO MEMBERS
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