Cuba USA
Release Year: 2005
Duration: 56 min
Availability: Worldwide
Related: History, International, Politics
In 1963 & 1964 Robert Carl Cohen became the first US filmmaker authorized by both the US State Dept. & Cuban Foreign Ministry to film the daily lives of upper, middle and lower economic-class Cubans. Returning to the US, Cohen interviewed an upper class exile who, his aged parents remaining in Cuba, requested anonymity. The film’s production had to overcome obstacles such as Kodak’s selling the Producer defective raw stock & the loss of the work print from an insured Railway Express shipment. Its 1965 screening as “Three Faces of Cuba” on over 100 National Educational TV (NET) affiliated stations led to violent protests by anti-Castro exiles, hearings before federal agencies, & non-inclusion by the NET in the usual distribution of its programs to the schools. Despite having permits from both the State & Treasury Depts., Cohen’s 1963 through 1971 tax returns were audited by the Internal Revenue Service; which revealed no liability. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) files released in 1975 reveal possible CIA influence in NET’s refusal to distribute the film. THREE CUBANS provides one of the best documentations of the early effects of Castro’s revolution on the people of Cuba. AUDIENCE: Concerned Citizens, Students of History, Latin American Affairs, Social Psychology, International Relations, Sociology, Political Science, Communism.
Click on the title of this post to watch the movie. H/T to Joseito!
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Cuba USA
Watch the Three Cubans movie!
Release Year: 2005
Duration: 56 min
Availability: Worldwide
Related: History, International, Politics
In 1963 & 1964 Robert Carl Cohen became the first US filmmaker authorized by both the US State Dept. & Cuban Foreign Ministry to film the daily lives of upper, middle and lower economic-class Cubans. Returning to the US, Cohen interviewed an upper class exile who, his aged parents remaining in Cuba, requested anonymity. The film’s production had to overcome obstacles such as Kodak’s selling the Producer defective raw stock & the loss of the work print from an insured Railway Express shipment. Its 1965 screening as “Three Faces of Cuba” on over 100 National Educational TV (NET) affiliated stations led to violent protests by anti-Castro exiles, hearings before federal agencies, & non-inclusion by the NET in the usual distribution of its programs to the schools. Despite having permits from both the State & Treasury Depts., Cohen’s 1963 through 1971 tax returns were audited by the Internal Revenue Service; which revealed no liability. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) files released in 1975 reveal possible CIA influence in NET’s refusal to distribute the film. THREE CUBANS provides one of the best documentations of the early effects of Castro’s revolution on the people of Cuba. AUDIENCE: Concerned Citizens, Students of History, Latin American Affairs, Social Psychology, International Relations, Sociology, Political Science, Communism.
Click on the title of this post to watch the movie. H/T to Joseito!
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CHE..."ONE OF THE GREAT ICONS OF THE 20TH CENTURY?" ANYONE GOING TO THIS PRESENTATION THIS FRIDAY SHOULD QUESTION THE ABOVE PHRASE USED IN THE PROMOTION OF THIS FILM (see below). A COOL AND COLLECTED MANNER OF QUESTIONING IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY...
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Received this forwarded e-mail: Here's the poster for Andy Garcia's new film "The Lost City". It's a movie about the Cuban revolution, without Hollywood's typical pro-Castro slant. Andy wants us to send it out to all of our friends...