Alternative Film Guide

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Beverly Hills, CA — The Oscar®-winning documentaries of 1963 and 1964 will screen on Monday, September 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Linwood Dunn Theater as the next installment of "Oscar’s Docs, Part Two: Academy Award®-Winning Documentaries 1961-1976." The 11-week series showcases the short and feature-length documentaries honored each year by the Academy.

Chagall, Oscar winner for Documentary Short Subject in 1963, is director Lauro Venturi’s tribute to the life and art of Belarussian artist Marc Chagall (born Moishe Segal). Rather than translate the documentary from its original French, Leonard Neubauer was hired to write a new commentary for the film’s interweaving of the artist’s works with images from his life. Actor Vincent Price provides the film’s narration. A 16mm print courtesy of Auerbach-Flag Films will be screened. Neubauer will participate in a discussion following the screening.

The poet himself was the subject of 1963 winner for Documentary Feature, Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World. Frost’s humor and curiosity are on display in the film, which captures the poet at home in Vermont and in Washington, DC awaiting the announcement of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature. A new 35mm print, preserved by the Academy Film Archive from elements supplied by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, will be screened courtesy of WGBH Educational Foundation.

In 1964 Nine from Little Rock took home the Oscar for Documentary Short Subject. The film reports on the progress of the nine African-American students at the center of the controversy sparked by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus’s decision to disregard the United States Supreme Court ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education and deny the students entry to Little Rock Central High School. Charles Guggenheim, the most nominated documentarian in Academy Awards history, was commissioned to make the film by the United States Information Agency under the direction of Edward R. Murrow and George Stevens Jr., head of the agency’s Motion Picture Service. A 16mm print from the Academy Film Archive will be screened courtesy of the United States Information Agency and Guggenheim Productions. Ernest Green and Dr. Terrence Roberts, who were both part of the Little Rock Nine, will participate in a discussion following the screening.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s [Le Monde sans soleil]World without Sun, Academy Award winner for Documentary Feature in 1964, gave American audiences another opportunity to see Cousteau at work at a time when underwater filming was still in its infancy. A 35mm print of the film will be screened courtesy of Sony.

Passes for "Oscar’s Docs, Part Two: Academy Award-Winning Documentaries 1961-1976" are available at a cost of $30 for the general public and $25 for Academy members and students with valid ID. Tickets for individual evenings of the series are available for $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members and students with valid ID. Passes and tickets may be purchased by mail, in person at the Academy during regular business hours or, depending on availability, on the night of the screening when the doors open at 6:30 p.m. The Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater is located at 1313 North Vine Street in Hollywood. For more information, call (310) 247-3600.

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