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- Title
FILM AND HISTORY NEWS.
- Abstract
The article reports that the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) was held in Boston, Massachusetts, in April 1975. The program included two sessions on film. The first was a showcase for the presentation of a new series of films on the American Revolution from the National Geographic Society entitled "Decade of Decision." The films and the study guides prepared to accompany them were discussed by Anthony Penna, one of the historical consultants for the project, and Mathias von Brauchitsch, the filmmaker. It was explained that the films were intended to each present a human dilemma in the context of the Revolutionary experience. Two films that were shown "Not Worth a Continental," and "A Song of Molasses," concerned the dilemmas of a corporal faced with seizing the provisions and the cow of a widow and her three children in order to feed the starving troops, and a ship captain who must decide whether to pay the molasses duty and thereby stay out of trouble with the authorities or to risk having his ship and cargo confiscated--eventually he hides the cargo and scuttles the ship. The bulk of the papers and the later discussion concerned the problem of producing such historic dramatizations while remaining true to the historic documentation.
- Subjects
CONFERENCES &; conventions; MOTION picture industry; FILMMAKERS; ART historians; HISTORIANS; HISTORICAL sociology
- Publication
Film & History (03603695), 1975, Vol 5, Issue 2, p19
- ISSN
0360-3695
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/flm.1975.a402697