As my subscribers know, I have a large collection of films from the 1950s and 1960s that I acquired over a 20 year period. These were films largely given to me by the filmmakers during a time when I was creating my six part television series, Making Sense Of The Sixties (1991). The films I collected presented many points of view and this one may or may not have worked back in the 60s to recruit students to join a radical organization headquartered at UC Berkeley. It's sloppily made and somewhat disjointed but gives a sense of how the organizations leaders and filmmakers felt (many organizations seem to have a 16mm filmmaker in the group at that time), and also gives a sense of what might have interested and engaged those who were not yet involved. I find that particularly revealing now that we can look at it from at least 50 years later. Some antiwar organizations, anti-Vietnam war organizations, radical counterculture organizations, civil rights organizations, left-wing economics organizations, and others although relatively small in terms of a percentage of the baby boomer generation, were vocal and outspoken back then. I wonder how many students today might be provoked to join this movement. My guess? Few.

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