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Godard undertook a collaborative project with the U.S. filmmakers Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker in October of 1968. Provisionally entitled One A.M., or “One American Movie”, the project was to be shot in the United States, but never reached completion under Godard’s direction. Pennebaker and Leacock continued with the project under the title One P.M. or ‘One Parallel Movie,’ and did not release the film until 1972.

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Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with Direct Cinema documentarian D. A. Pennebaker was meant to be One A.M., as in “one American movie”; but Godard quit the project and the U.S., where to his dismay he discovered that revolution wasn’t imminent, and Pennebaker edited Godard’s material, to which he and Richard Leacock even added a bit more, releasing the result as One P.M., as in “one parallel movie.” It’s a stunning mixture of cinéma-vérité, political theater, and interviews of key sixties figures.

1 P.M. (1972, D.A. Pennebaker, Richard Leacock & Jean-Luc Godard) [DVD].mkv

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Richard Leacock photographs the first week of school integration in November 1960 in New Orleans, which is marked by violent demonstrations of hatred by white parents as their children look on, a vision of how prejudice is passed on, one divided generation passing its legacy of conflict to the next.

As six-year-old Ruby Bridges mounts the steps of William Frantz Elementary School as its only African-American student, she is surrounded by three U.S. Marshals to protect her from the menacing crowd. Her first-grade classmate, Yolanda Gabrielle, also 6, is escorted to the same school by her mother, one of the few white children whose parents refused to join a racist boycott. Yolanda becomes the target of the taunts of a crowd of shouting segregationists as she makes her way to school.

Another first-grader, Tessie Prevost, from the segregated 9th Ward in New Orleans, also receives the protection of U.S. Marshals to enter and leave another nearly empty, newly desegregated elementary school, McDonogh No. 19. She, along with Leona Tate and Gail Etienne, had previously attended black-only schools in their neighborhood. Tessie’s grandmother explains that Tessie was raised to know that just because a person was white did not mean they were any different from her, and so the tumult around her attending a new school is confusing.

When Yolanda’s mom comes to pick her up at the end of the school day, the ugly crowd swarms them on the walk home. Police only intervene when a fight breaks out, but then do little else to prevent the harassment. The crowd follows Yolanda home and surrounds her family’s house, banging on windows and yelling slurs. Yolanda’s father comes home from work only to tell his wife that he’s been provoked by angry co-workers to quit his job.

The narrator concludes: “As for the children watching, perhaps you have discovered in them another, deeper story: of their legacy of conflict, handed down as it has been for generations. But now with some changes. Now, for the first time, there are the Tessie Prevosts and children following in the footsteps of Yolanda Gabrielle watching, too. Watching their parents, supported by the law of the land, in calm and determined opposition to the fury spent against them. What all the children are learning as they now watch will only be discovered when they become parents and their children are watching them.”

Richard Leacock - 1961 - The Children Were Watching [WEB 576p].mkv

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Two American Audiences (Richard Leacock, Mark Woodcock, 1968, 40 min., 16mm): Announcing itself as “a typical Pennebaker production of a typical Godard visit,” JLG speaks with grad students and Serge Losique at NYU in April 1968. Pennebaker: “When Jean-Luc Godard came to New York to make a film [1 A.M./1 P.M.] with me and Ricky Leacock, he was anxious to see America before the revolution broke out, torn up as it was with the Vietnam furor. Godard’s most recent film, La Chinoise, was playing, and Columbia University students, who had initiated their student uprising on the day the film opened, were pouring into the theater. This to our unexpected delight, for when Godard had arranged for us to distribute the film, we had done so with misgiving since his films were not normally known to fill theaters. So as we laughed at his sly remarks, it occurred to us that there were two audiences involved here, and maybe that our film should be about that. It might also be noted that the date of the filming, April 4, 1968, was the day Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. Of course, none of us in the room knew about that then.”

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