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Seeing Is Believing

Gudrun Parker

1956 10 min

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How three different newsreels treat the arrival in town of a political candidate demonstrates that the approach to an event can change its character--you can't always believe all you see.

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How three different newsreels treat the arrival in town of a political candidate demonstrates that the approach to an event can change its character--you can't always believe all you see.

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Credits

• director
  Gudrun Parker
  
• script
  Gudrun Parker
  
• producer
  Nicholas Balla
  
• photography
  Donald Wilder
  
• sound
  Frank Orban
  
• editing
  Douglas Tunstell
  
• sound editing
  Joan Edward
  

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