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Filmed as the official statement of the Youth International Party, this film is as freewheeling and irreverent as the Yippies themselves. It presents an overview of 1968 Chicago, Mayor Daley, and the pig the Yippies ran for president. The film juxtaposes orgy scenes from D.W. Griffith's "I...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Third World Newsreel, 1968.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Daley, Richard J., > 1902-1976.
Democratic National Convention > (1968 : > Chicago, Ill.)
Daley, Richard J., > 1902-1976
Democratic National Convention
Riots > Illinois > Chicago.
Police > Illinois > Chicago.
Radicalism > United States.
Police brutality > Illinois > Chicago.
Radicalisme > États-Unis.
Brutalités policières > Illinois > Chicago.
Police
Police brutality
Radicalism
Riots
Illinois > Chicago
United States
documentary film.
Feature films
Documentary films
Short films
Documentary films.
Short films.
Feature films.
Documentaires.
Courts métrages.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Filmed as the official statement of the Youth International Party, this film is as freewheeling and irreverent as the Yippies themselves. It presents an overview of 1968 Chicago, Mayor Daley, and the pig the Yippies ran for president. The film juxtaposes orgy scenes from D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance" and Keystone Cops chases with Yippie antics in Chicago. The film also explores the issue of police brutality - both humorously and with an undercurrent of deep anger. This film was actually produced by and for yippies; Newsreel adopted it in order to bring it to a wider audience.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed May 12, 2020).
Originally released by Newsreel as a short film in 1968.
Physical Description:1 online resource (14 minutes)
Playing Time:00:13:56