The astonishing story of the first documentary film school in the USA—The Institute of Film Techniques at The City College of New York. This groundbreaking program exposed thousands of working-class kids raised on Hollywood movies to the power of documentary film - all under the watchful eye of DADAist, pioneering experimental filmmaker and radical thinker, Hans Richter.
Length 62 minutes
Alan Heim | Martin Starger | David Saperstein | Richard J. Anobile | Edward Pomerantz | Lawrence Silk | Manfred Kirchheimer | Jonas Mekas | Aram Boyajian | Phil Gries | Cecile Starr | Alex Hapsas | Sheila Conrad | Bill Perlmutter