Castro film institute dominates Cuban movie scene
In Havana the Cuban Cinema Institute guides a broad program using film to mold a new citizenry. It runs 480 to 500 theaters, produces features and newsreels, and screens international titles while navigating a US embargo. Director Saul Yelin discusses education over entertainment and the institute’s 1968 founding.
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Havana
UPI
Lyndon B. Johnson
Big As Life
Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Martin Luther
LBJ
Cuban Cinema Institute
Institute
Sulkari
Cuba
Saul Yelin
The
Film Institute
Yelin
Spain
Hud
Paul Newman
U.S
Peyton Place
Poland
Rumania
Britain
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Japan
East Germany
Bulgaria
France
Switzerland
Fidel Castro
Revolutionary Movement
Castro
Beaux Arts Gala Winners Named at SVAC Fundraiser
Manchester the Fourth Annual Beaux Arts Gala announced winners in painting sculpture and prints. Forty one artworks donated by SVA members will be presented at the Wine Tasting Party at the Art Center today from 5 to 8 p.m. Proceeds fund summer programs. Winners include Cindy Shaw Russell Fenn Barbara Smith Stephen A Wilson Rhys Evans and many others.
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Manchester
Edwin Lefevre Jr
Southern Vermont Art Center
Art Center
SVA
Cindy Shaw
Russell Fenn
Barbara Smith
Stephen A. Wilson
Rhys Evans
V.A. Monkton
Anita Katcher
Lee McChesney
Henry van Loon
Williams F. Fowle Jr
Brook Nelson
James West
William L. Fort
John McCormick
Dorothy Howe
W. Williams
Richard C. Roth
Michael Bruce
Emily Johnson
M. Bernhardt
John Sawyer
Lawrence Fiske
Olive Barnes
Robert August
Tammy Towslee
Osborne Halstead
Meg Shattuck
Walter Hersom
Robert Collins
Dorothy Coleman
William Manley
Charles Schubert
Charles T. Chapin
Gerald I. Cutler
Lois Higbee
Charles Ams
Craig Wheaton-Smith
Laura Shattuck
Doris Brandt
Sidney Meatchem
Peter
Barbara Walters dominates Cuba invasion coverage
In Havana and Florida, Barbara Walters anchors a press crowd with poise while colleagues chase Castro for timely footage. The piece lauds her skill and notes tensions over competitive race for scoops, arguing for restraint and a top-to-bottom delay to protect hospitality and viewers.
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Havana
UPI
Argentina
Barbara Walters
Fidel Castro
Florida
Barbara
Cuba
George Burns urges entry into show business in Sunshine Boys
George Burns, at 79, announces his return to film in The Sunshine Boys with Walter Matthau, saying his advice to the world is to enter show business. He recalls early days from vaudeville to radio, Gracie Allen, and the shift to television, praising the joy of acting and memory of longtime colleague Jack Benny.
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Mel Gussow
N.Y
New York
George Burns
Sunshine Boys
Walter Matthau
Neil Simon Vaudevillians
Burns
Joe Smith
Smith
Friars Club
Matthau
Richard Benjamin
Peewee
Gracie Allen
Burns and Allen
Gracie
Halcyon
Jack Benny
Minimata and the Warning of Industrial Trusts
A review of the Smiths photograph and text study Minimata on mercury pollution in Japan. The work links corporate waste, ecological damage, and human suffering to industrial progress, urging awareness and action. It frames the book as a passionate, nonobjective warning rather than propaganda, and highlights the photographers' courage.
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Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Japan
Aileen
Eugene Smith
Minimata
Dickens
Coketown
Smith
Southeast Asia
America
Chisso
Smiths
Great Britain
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Rachel Roberts
Jacqueline Bisset
Vanessa Redgrave
Sidney Luamet
Agatha Christie
Orient Express
Main St
Frank Reynolds
ABC
Frank Old Boy
Peggy
Walloomsac, N.Y
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Lead Guitar
Cal
Drums
Shirley Lee
Russ On
Book Review
Buckminster Fuller
Fuller
Albert Schweitzer
Chisso Corp
Barbra Streisand
SUN
Paul le Mat
Cinema & Il
Columbia Pictures
Lea
Bennington
MI. N
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Billy Jack
A Laughlin
Playboy
Ae Mvil
Rennington
Clint Eastwood
Dirty Harry
Warner Bros
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Warner Communications Company
Monument Plaza
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