Screening room
Subtitle: the films of Emile de Antonio
By: WCVB-TV
Contributors: Documentary Educational Resources (Firm); Robert Gardner Collection (Harvard Film Archive)
Publisher: Documentary Educational Resources
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Watertown, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Motion pictures; Production and direction; Motion picture authorship; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Atrocities; Camera operators; Battles; Political violence; History; Infantry; Radicalism; In motion pictures
Work titles: Screening room: the films of Emile de Antonio (1973). videorecording
Description: In 1973 independent filmmaker Emile de Antonio discussed his films, Point of Order, Rush to Judgement, In the Year of the Pig and Millhouse: A White Comedy in the studios of WCVB-TV Boston with Robert Gardner. Emile de Antonio (1919-1989), was one of America's most influential political and avant-garde filmmakers, started making documentary films in the mid-1960s, his work received wide success in theatrical release. His often-controversial films focused on the United States during the Cold War and sharply criticized American institutions and government officials. Films focusing on Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, and the Vietnam War led to de Antonio's becoming the object of FBI surveillance. De Antonio was also involved with the New York art world of the 1960s, which he documented in Painters Painting. Along with visual anthropologist Edmund Carpenter, he appeared on the television program Screening Room in June of 1973 to screen and discuss excerpts from his films.
Notes: Harvard Film Archive 3/4" and VHS videorecordings, HFA item nos. 23932; 23923; from the Robert Gardner Collection.

Running time 79 minutes, Cf. Studio7Arts website January 5th, 2012.

First broadcast in June of 1973.

Direction, Robert Gardner.