{"id":6524,"date":"2011-03-17T21:08:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=6524"},"modified":"2011-03-17T21:08:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:08:06","slug":"a-45-at-50th-a-film-about-actor-james-cromwell-and-the-black-panthers-in-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2011\/03\/17\/a-45-at-50th-a-film-about-actor-james-cromwell-and-the-black-panthers-in-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"A.45 at 50th &#8211; A Film About Actor James Cromwell and the Black Panthers in 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MATURE CONTENT AND LANGUAGE:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><object width=\"580\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11127014&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=9dca68&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11127014&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=9dca68&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>I got a nice surprise submission to my Vimeo Candlelight Stories Short Film group this week.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a fascinating documentary about one famous actor&#8217;s experiences during the turmoil of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2139749\">John Cromwell<\/a>, the son of actor James Cromwell, directed this short film with Joshua Bell.  It&#8217;s about his father&#8217;s experience with members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Panther_Party\">Black Panther Party<\/a> civil rights organization in 1968.  It&#8217;s a fascinating short documentary look at someone who finds himself in an unfamiliar world just trying to lend a decent helping hand.  James Cromwell has been involved with the defense of the Black Panthers and other human rights causes for decades.\u00a0 I like the film&#8217;s professional quality and easy capturing of the sixties look.\u00a0 It presents its important and dramatic subject matter with a good dose of rather charming humor.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2139749\">article and interview with the director and his father<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATURE CONTENT AND LANGUAGE: I got a nice surprise submission to my Vimeo Candlelight Stories Short Film group this week.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a fascinating documentary about one famous actor&#8217;s experiences during the turmoil of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. John Cromwell, the son of actor James Cromwell, directed this short film with Joshua Bell. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1158,1314,114,995,1458],"tags":[2526,1759,425,988,1760,1761,2511],"class_list":["post-6524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","category-documentary-film","category-film","category-freedom-of-exptression","category-short-films","tag-1960s","tag-black-panthers","tag-civil-rights","tag-independent","tag-james-cromwell","tag-john-cromwell","tag-new-york"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6528,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions\/6528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}