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Amplifying Prejudices. As a result of its extraordinary impact, TV news has become a powerful force encouraging social ferment. Early in the civil rights revolution, Negro activists made it perfectly clear that wittingly or unwittingly, the TV cameraman was their ally. Marches were staged and demonstrations timed to get full coverage. By reporting the whole movement, TV added to its momentum. The sight of Bull Connor's dogs attacking Birmingham Negroes served as a catalyst for the conscience of most of the nation...
...with Heat. On spot news stories, few other newsmen in the area move as fast as the reporters from WDSU. When the plane carrying former New Orleans Mayor deLesseps Morrison failed to land on schedule, Corporon wasted not a moment. He chartered a plane, sent out a reporter and cameraman to retrace Morrison's route. WDSU had the only New Orleans reporters at the crash scene and shot the city's only film of the removal of the bodies...
Breathless also featured an alienated hero treated without sentimentality. But unlike Truffaut, Godard created an entire revolution in technique. Godard and his superb cameraman, Raoul Coutard, used a hand-held camera for the entire film, giving the director an unheard-of flexibility. Instead of planning the shooting meticulously as convention dictated, Godard created the film through the viewfinder and often used candid shots. Most of all, through both the camera-work and the editing, Godard insisted upon a constant impression of energy which was to infuse the enthusiasms of an entire generation of film-makers...
Director Elio Petri is apparently the chief villain, both for taking on so uneventful a screenplay and for composing such ugly shots. Petri used the technicians and the cameraman who worked with Antonioni on Red Desert. He has proven how effectively a film-maker can nullify such technical contributions by composing his images with the carelessness of a soap-opera director...
...little authenticity, there are occasional film clips from a 1944 cameraman who was infinitely more skillful than the one used last year. The clips serve to point out how much wiser it would have been to make Paris in documentary form--for television. The soundtrack is perhaps second only to Muzak in its exasperating qualities. There is, in short, absolutely nothing favorable one can say about this movie except that it is, in its own way, monumental. It goes beyond (or below) mediocrity to achieve a really first-rate bad movie status; in fact it probably will become the classic...