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Soul! EP 5
Ellis Haizlip and Loretta Long talk with dramatist Barbara Ann Teer. Ms. Teer talks about her experience with black theater workshops in the early 1960s. Ms. Teer says theater is not servicing the needs of the black community. "White people can't stand to be left out of anything." (Loretta Long rolls her eyes & shifts in her seat at the note of this statement.) Barbara Ann Teer believes theater performers should be singers, writers, dancers, & actors (an all-encompassing talent). Ms. Teer quotes Sun Ra. Ms. Teer says, "We cannot work in a white medium. Black techniques are something completely & totally different. The whole method of acting that this country is built on... does not service our needs. So what I'm doing is trying to develop black techniques."
Soul! EP 5
Ellis Haizlip introduces Duke & Leonard. Duke and Leonard perform "You Have Lost Your Soul." R&B soul music. At outset, MS several African-American adults seated in audience, applauding-- note the row of awkward-looking white adults sitting behind them; pan left to Ellis Haizlip assuring Duke & Leonard that he had neckbones & collared greens (referring to a line in the refrain) last night, so he still has a little soul left in him.
Soul! EP 5
Ellis Haizlip introduces drama critic Clayton Riley. Mr. Haizlip, Barbara Ann Teer, and Loretta Long talk with Clayton Riley. Mr. Riley discusses his review of "For Love of Ivy" (1968 film featuring Sidney Poitier); comments made by Ms. Teer during her interview segment; the relevancy of The Last Poets. Clayton Riley talks briefly about the IS 201 conference. Mr. Riley & Ms. Teer talk disparagingly of the TV show "Julia."
Soul! EP 5
Ellis Haizlip introduces The Last Poets. The Last Poets (David Nelson, Gylan Kain, Abiodun Oyewole, Nilija) perform "Die, Nigger." Angry, biting performance poetry, black theater. Excellent, stunning performance. At outset, FO/FI MS studio audience clapping, pan to Ellis Haizlip, Clayton Riley, Barbara Ann Teer, and Loretta Long applauding enthusiastically. Ellis Haizlip thanks The Last Poets, asks the audience to give them one more round of applause.
Soul! EP 5
Ellis Haizlip introduces singer Marion Williams. Marion Williams performs the jazz ballad synonymous w/ Lady Day, "God Bless the Child." Piano accompaniment. Ms. Williams had such a glorious voice. Excellent performance.
Soul! EP 5
Ellis Haizlip interviews briefly singer Marion Williams (family, hometown, recording schedule). Ellis Haizlip closes show, thanks guests, introduces Marion Williams. Marion Williams performs "How I Got Over." Uptempo gospel w/ piano accompaniment. Credits roll at outset.
Air Pollution: Sweetening the Air
1970s film about air pollution. Its causes, effects & possible solutions. (environment, pollution)
Alcoholism: I Was Going To School Drunk
This 1970s film deals with teenage drinking and teenagers whose parents are alcoholics. (Alcohol abuse, addiction, underage drinking, alcoholism)
Biofeedback: Listening to Your Head
Scientist explore the use & potential of biofeedback - listening to our brain waves. (science, experimental)
Biochemical Revolution: Moods of the Future
1970s film about how drug use is changing the society. (research, mood altering, research)
The Brain: Creating A Mental Elite
Film looking at the functions & potential of the human brain. Film looks at research being conducted & speculates on the future. (medical research, science, science fiction, sci-fi, futurism)
Cancer: The Wayward Cell
Film looks at the causes, possible treatments & the physical & emotional effects of cancer. Several doctors & scientists are interviewed. One patient, Christine McGuire, tells her story. (disease, research, treatment)
Lifelines: A Career Profile Story
This film features Dr. Edgar Schein of the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T who discusses the insights of his research into career formation. Shots of 3 different men at their jobs. (social science)
Cities: Living in a Machine
This film looks at some of the 1970s new living environments that are being developed to meet the incredible world population increases. It looks squarely at the problems we face in rebuilding the earth so that people can live on it. (Futurism, social science, engineering, design, predictions)
Crime
The film looks at the many faces of crime and the activities of law enforcement agencies, which try to control it (organized crime in North America, street gangs, terriorism). In the future, criminologists will employ dye guns, lasers, voiceprints, exotic x-rays, bomb sniffers, and neutron analysis.
Depression & Suicide: You Can Turn Bad Feelings Into Good Ones
The film stimulates a healthy, open discussion about the physical and emotional pressures that cause depression, and how they can be alleviated or prevented. Most of the footage is general footage of people & their daily lives in the 1970s. The VO talks about depression, but their is no footage of hospitals or suicide.
Energy: Towards the Age of Abundance
We see how traditional sources of energy will be depleted in the near future. Nuclear power, solar power, pollution.
Evolution by DNA: Changing the Blueprint of Life
Interviewed is David Suzuki, a geneticist working on biological evolution, who is studying the common fruit fly to find out exactly how genes work in heredity. (DNA, genetics)
The Family: Lifestyles of the Future
Film tries to predict what families will be in the year 2000. General shots of daily living in 1970s. Some of the footage is of experimental communal living, but it could also work for general daily life.
Flying: From Here to Infinity
"A DOCUMENT Associate Inc. Production" Animation of space flight. White spaceship flying over Earth, separating from booster rocket, which falls back toward Earth; spaceship's rockets fire as it flies away. POV animation flying past stars. Adult Caucasian male talking about men and women being "artificially" selected for flights to Mars where they will eventually breed to create progeny to live on Mars, which which be a sub-speciation of human, unable to come back and live on Earth; man standing in between two globes, bigger one in the FG.
Fusion: The Electric & Infinite Future
Film explores the possibility of using fusion to replace our consumption of fossil fuels.
Smoking: Games Smokers Play
1970s Anti-smoking educational film w/out the scare tactics. At times uses humor to attack the reasons people smoke.
Habitat 2000: Human Scale Cities
1970s film speculating on the year 2000 city of the future.
Cheap Noir Scenes
Master 1480 - Tape 1 TLS three white male police detectives (classic crime-busting dicks wearings suits and ties, fedoras) clammoring out of shiny black sedan parked in dark alleyway (more like a studio lot or large sound stage); brick buildings line alley; like a scene from a cheap film noir. (5-3) TLS police car (squad car) parked in middle of tree-ridden rural dirt road during late afternoon, headlights beaming; police car rolls toward camera cautiously; white male cop on passenger side hops out to assist white man lying on ground beside black sedan with white-wall tires; felled man appears to have been victim of a gang beating. Crimes and misdemeanors. Like an excerpt from a cheap forgotten film noir. (5-2)