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TALKING WITH THOREAU
Source | Archive Films by Getty Images |
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Title: | TALKING WITH THOREAU |
File Number: | EBC-133 Beta SP |
Color: | Color |
Type: | Educational |
Year: | 1975 |
Description: | Color 1975 This high-concept educational film imagines Henry David Thoreau as a living breathing person, who submits to a roundtable discussion with representatives of the 20th century. Thoreau is played by an actor, Barry Primus, but his visitors, four famous contemporary Americans, appear as themselves - David Brower, conservationist and president of Friends of the Earth BF Skinner, controversial behavioral psychologist and author of "Walden II", Rosa Parks, the civil rights heroine and Elliot Richardson, former US Attorney General (under Nixon) Each maintains the fiction of having a conversation with a long-dead person, and indeed, the talk seems natural, not scripted. In addition to the interviews, there are several shots of "Thoreau" walking around in the woods, looking philosophical and sometimes playing a flute. Directed by Richard Slote and Paul Asselin |