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Medium cool

This story is about a television cameraman in 1968 Chicago who chooses not to get personally concerned about the ugliness he must film each day for his station. But the hate and hypocrisy command his attentions at last, and he becomes increasingly involved in the realities he finds with his camera.

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  • "Les problèmes professionnels et personnels d'un reporter pour la télévision.-- [Boite noire]."
  • "Set in 1968 in Chicago at the time of the Democratic National Convention and ensuing riots, this is the story of a TV cameraman and his involvement with the realities of hate and hypocrisy he finds in his filming."
  • "This story is about a television cameraman in 1968 Chicago who chooses not to get personally concerned about the ugliness he must film each day for his station. But the hate and hypocrisy command his attentions at last, and he becomes increasingly involved in the realities he finds with his camera."@en
  • "Follows a television cameraman as he records Chicago's preparations for the 1968 Democratic National Convention."@en
  • "Set in 1968 in Chicago at the time of the Democratic National Convention, this is the story of a TV cameraman and his involvement with the realities of hate and hypocrisy he finds in his filming."
  • "Les problèmes professionnels et personnels d'un reporter pour la télévision."
  • "A photojournalist who has become insensitive to the tragedies he reports gets involved with protesters during the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention. Much of the footage was shot as the protests and police action occurred."@en
  • "The story of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman is a visceral, lasting cinematic snapshot of the era, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera, Medium Cool is as prescient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced."@en
  • "The story of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman is a visceral, lasting cinematic snapshot of the era, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera, Medium Cool is as prescient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced."
  • "Story about a television cameraman in 1968 Chicago who chooses not to get personally concerned about the ugliness he must film."@en
  • "As protesters and police face off in the streets during the Democratic National Convention of 1968, the relationship deepens between a dispassionate TV news cameraman and a warmhearted Appalachian woman raising her son in a Chicago ghetto."@en
  • "As protesters and police face off in the streets during the Democratic National Convention of 1968, the relationship deepens between a dispassionate TV news cameraman and a warmhearted Appalachian woman."
  • "John Cassellis is a TV news reporter who has been fired for protesting the use of his tapes by the FBI to find suspects. He goes to the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Actual footage of the demonstrations and riots was shot for this film. "The time: 1968. The place: Chicago, setting of the Democratic National Convention and a hotbed of political and social change. As protesters and police face off in the streets, fate brings together an unlikely pair: John, a dispassionate TV news cameraman, and Eileen, a warmhearted Appalachian raising her son in a Chicago ghetto. Their relationship deepens and so does the impending danger, as John and Eileen are swept into the maelstrom of fear and violence that has captured the attention of an entire nation"--DVD sleeve."@en

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  • "Feature films"
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  • "Features"@en
  • "Fiction films"@en
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Black films and programs"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"
  • "Films for the hearing impaired"
  • "Drama"
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  • "Medium cool"
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  • "Medium cool (Motion picture)"@en
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