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Quixote (1965)
In Bruce Baillie's short 45 minute, avante-garde independent
documentary film with images from his 'epic' mid-1960s, one-year
cross-country 'quixotic' journey:
- the opening superimposed title screen - a view of
giant, magnified white typewritten letters: Q U I X O T E - (horizontally
moving first from right to left, and then back from left to right)
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Highway Billboard Signs
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Mexican farmhands
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Skyscraper
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HS Basketball Players
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Horses
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Tarantula
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- the assault on the viewer of many, multi-layered
and fragmented assortment of juxtaposed images, often super-imposed
montages or double-exposures, of people and places, including liberal
commentary on racism, inhumanity, oppression, and the Vietnam War,
with footage of the legendary civil rights march in Selma, Alabama,
accompanied by a jazzy soundtrack with excerpted dialogue
- the many elements of the film included a quick montage
of highway billboard signs, Bulletman, cropdusting, Mexican farmhands,
skyscraper construction, cheerleaders and high school basketball
players, sheep, horses (and later wild horses), passing desert landscapes,
a covered wagon train, a slow-moving tortoise, a tarantula, supermarket
and dept. store aisles, circus performers (tightrope walker, juggler,
acrobats, clowns, aerialists, a circus parade, etc.) and elephants,
an Indian reservation (cliff-dwellings, native dancers, and elderly
men smoking), oil drilling and dredging, city dwellers, civil rights
march (Selma, AL), unexplained nudity, Wall Street stock market,
IBM punch-card, a haircut, glimpses of Vietnam War, Manhattan anti-war
demonstration, and much more
- at about the 12 minute mark, the subtle transition
from black and white to color - a dark closeup image of a field hand
worker picking leafy green produce in California, accompanied by
a slight whistling sound
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12 minute mark - B/W to Color
Circus Performer
Native American dancer
Selma Civil Rights March
Brief Glimpse of Nudity
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