Name: Watch 1960s Teenagers Creating Movies For The First Time
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T18:30:01.000Z
Duration: 18 min 11 s
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you're about to see a portion of a movie made in 1969 with young filmmakers.

I made this film back then because I was a young filmmaker, and I was also very interested in others doing what I did.

It's other people making these eight millimeter cameras, little cameras and Super eight, which had sound.

And prior to this, there were some documentary filmmakers, but no riel like amateurs.

All of a sudden, out of America comes these amateurs shooting their own little movies.

Art movies off the strange films, some with audio, some with music editing themselves, coming all over the country but really booming in New York City in 1969.

So I went to PBS, which was knew back then, and they gave me a grant to make a movie called Young Filmmakers, and it's partially taking place at a conference, which is being held at Fordham University.

Fordham University and the Jesuits will leaders in this new age of filmmaking, and you're going to see some of the filmmakers, and then you're going to see a crazy thing that I chose to do, which is I took some rich kids from Westchester, gave them the opportunity to make a movie in a day, and I took some poor kids from the inner city and gave them the opportunity to make a movie in a day.

What did the rich kids choose to do with their documentary?

And what did the poor kids choose to do with their what you could call it a documentary, but really, neither of them May documentaries.

They made little stories, and they tell you why Watch till the very end if you can.

And I'll tell you more about what happened to these people and the movie.

We're gonna make up murder pitcher in the city, he breaking.

Then we beat him up because we're seeing and we escape in the chase, and then I go and rescue my how After that we get jumped, but I make it away in a Then I go find him the next day around the building.

Once it was grand and very distant, the property of a handful of giant corporations.

Once the movie's supplied America with prepaid dreams and packaged lovers, Now you can film your own dream for a few bucks.

Film is becoming a personal medium accessible to anyone like Cray Office or balsa Wood.

The exploding creativity of American youth is engaged in the creation of a new and genuine culture, and film is one of the most important, most revealing aspect of this culture.

The films of young people are, in a sense, the most contemporary American cinema.

This generation raised on television and the Cold War, but we wanted to explore the difference.

We saw it from them, a better understanding of why they have taken to film so enthusiastically what they think and feel his artists, what they're trying to say.

Well, it's a bad little girl that goes into a dream, and she goes into a world where people are very small.

And to do this we animated Swedish trolls.

How long did it take you to make this movie bad half year.

Well, it was my first movie, and, you know, it was just very hard enemy.

Well, we just thought it was a good idea.

You see, we didn't know that the film business was really in for student gonna make our own movie instead of a term paper.

So I thought the movie was easier, so I made it and, uh, let me get something that we knew something about teenage problems and what teenagers do.

They fight on me, focused on them, just fighting.

And then I bought two fish and put them in an aquarium on I forget their names.

So them fighting and finally fish kill each other.

The last sequence to kids jumping or swimming pool knows our film was good.

I think it's a couple guys playing cards and one guy's sneaks a crowd out, you know, from the stock.

And I'm not the bad guy over because he killed the guy that was sneaking the car he killed, not killed beating to death.

I told another guy to watch the door for a cop.

So then he would sleep so that through my head and and then we hit the floor.

And he said to the Hawks, 13 Danish, Yes.

Did you make it up just out of your head?

There wasn't supposed to be no violence in the film, but it didn't turn out that way.

Somebody had a bright idea that Hey, how about pulling the cord out yourself?

I pulled it out and the other boy different.

What kind of world do you think it walked before the television set was invented?

No, I need you want told you more than you pay attention to a teacher, I think possibly because television set teaching just walked by a television set really expresses itself, and it has different views and, ah, difficult means Get here.

You can have people before television how they teach it.

These parents, the older people, they just don't seem to see.

They say we're living in a world television, you know.

Everything's being thrown at us and we're not putting for anything.

And this is a lot of okay, because and still you have so much more to work with.

You have so many more outlets for your imagination.

A few films shown at the conference were selected for special awards.