Why are 90% of the world’s advanced semiconductors produced in Taiwan? Are we risking a re-run of Pearl Harbor? If China were to invade Taiwan, could China just take over TSMC?
A few additional bits on cinéma vérité / Crisis (cut from above for brevity)...
‘Robert Drew had a vision for a new kind of film, one that captured the drama of real life to allow viewers a direct experience of other worlds.
‘...the camera follows people freely through their stories and the footage is edited to convey the sense of what it was like to be there.
‘Filmed in what was then a revolutionary style that came to be known as American cinema verite… the birth of what we think of as the modern documentary.
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‘Using force on the Governor could destroy support Kennedy needed to further civil rights legislation. But allowing the Governor to block the students could set back the civil rights movement.
‘I also knew that this new form required new technology—a mobile, quiet camera that could synchronize with a sound recorder. But I had always assumed that the technology arose first and then filmmakers and artists found uses for it. What I learned while working on this release was the extent to which the opposite was true: Robert Drew and his fantastic team of filmmakers (Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles, and Terence Macartney-Filgate) had a clear vision of the kind of documentary they wanted to make, and they had to commission the development of a camera to realize that vision.
‘Broadcast television executives did not know what to make of this documentary that featured occasionally blurry in-the-moment camerawork, did not lecture to its audience with a voice-over narration, and did not sum up its thesis with a moral.
“We had this remarkable movie that we were about to shoot and could not sell it going in, up front; the networks didn’t want to touch it”
‘Kennedy had in fact gone into office exclusively focused on foreign policy... Richard Reeves notes that the first draft of Kennedy’s inauguration speech (with the famous “ask not what your country can do for you” line), there wasn’t a single word devoted to domestic policy.’
A few additional bits on cinéma vérité / Crisis (cut from above for brevity)...
‘Robert Drew had a vision for a new kind of film, one that captured the drama of real life to allow viewers a direct experience of other worlds.
‘...the camera follows people freely through their stories and the footage is edited to convey the sense of what it was like to be there.
‘Filmed in what was then a revolutionary style that came to be known as American cinema verite… the birth of what we think of as the modern documentary.
*
‘Using force on the Governor could destroy support Kennedy needed to further civil rights legislation. But allowing the Governor to block the students could set back the civil rights movement.
‘I also knew that this new form required new technology—a mobile, quiet camera that could synchronize with a sound recorder. But I had always assumed that the technology arose first and then filmmakers and artists found uses for it. What I learned while working on this release was the extent to which the opposite was true: Robert Drew and his fantastic team of filmmakers (Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles, and Terence Macartney-Filgate) had a clear vision of the kind of documentary they wanted to make, and they had to commission the development of a camera to realize that vision.
‘Broadcast television executives did not know what to make of this documentary that featured occasionally blurry in-the-moment camerawork, did not lecture to its audience with a voice-over narration, and did not sum up its thesis with a moral.
“We had this remarkable movie that we were about to shoot and could not sell it going in, up front; the networks didn’t want to touch it”
‘Kennedy had in fact gone into office exclusively focused on foreign policy... Richard Reeves notes that the first draft of Kennedy’s inauguration speech (with the famous “ask not what your country can do for you” line), there wasn’t a single word devoted to domestic policy.’