VLVL Real-life Inspiration for 24fps?

[Doug Millison]

Nice find, davemarc, that Third World Newsreel at
http://www.twn.org/about.html.

In one of the essays in _The Vineland Papers_, Stacey Olster mentions
another possible 24fps precursor, the Workers Film and Photo League, which
"incorporated the notion of film as 'weapon' into its founding statement,
believing as its members did that film was instrumental in 'spreading the
message of struggle against unemp[lpoyment, starvation, and police
clubbings' and this, in turn, echoed Dziga Vertov's still earlier
pronouncement of film acting 'not as a mirror which reflects the historical
struggle, but a weapon of that struggle.' " Olster also notes the
resemblance between 24fps and Newsreel, and proceeds with a discussion of
film politics that some of you may find interesting. Olster cites some
works that may be worth investigating:  _Film on the Left:  American
Documentary Film from 1931 to 1942_ by William Alexander, Princeton
University Press, 1981; and, several articles about  in  _Film Quarterly
21.2 (1968-69), and several more references in the article's bibliography.


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