The American Revolution (film)

The American Revolution is a feature-length documentary film for festival, theatrical, and broadcast release.[1]

Free-form, underground radio stations were a powerful medium that connected their listeners with the profound changes of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The American Revolution chronicles progressive rock radio station WBCN-FM in Boston, during the years 1968 to 1974, through the original sights, sounds and stories, and examines the station's role in both covering and promoting the dramatic social, political and cultural changes that took place during that era. The film is being produced by the Peabody Award-winning Lichtenstein Creative Media.[2][3] The film's use of crowdsourcing to collect archival material for its production and to raise the funds necessary to produce it has been called "A revolution in documentary filmmaking" by the American University Center for Social Media.[4][5]

In order to produce the film, tens of thousands of individual archival items, including photographs, audio recordings, film, video and memorabilia, were shared with the producers by members of the public. A collection of these items base been established at University of Massachusetts Amherst.[6]

Film Crew

Producer: Bill Lichtenstein, Director of Photography: Boyd Estes, Archives/Associate Producer: David Bieber, Associate Producer: Jay Rooney; Archival Researchers; Virginia Wilking and Tiffany Lopinsky; Digital Restoration: Paul Adam and Mass Production; Film Animator: Lisa Crafts; Story Editor and Coordinating Producer: Peter Miller; Legal Advisors: Christopher T. Bavitz and Jay Fialkov; Executive Producer: Robert Sennott; Production Advisor: John Scagliotti. 501(c)(3) Fiscal Sponsor: Center for Independent Documentary; Legal Services: Berkman Center for Internet and Society and WilmerHale.

References

  1. ↑ "WBCN and the American Revolution" The Huffington Post, August 11, 2009
  2. ↑ "The Glory Days of WBCN," Boston Globe (op-ed), July 18, 2009
  3. ↑ "Film revives spirit of rebellious Boston radio". Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  4. ↑ "The American Revolution: A conversation with filmmaker, Bill Lichtenstein". Center for Media & Social Impact. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  5. ↑ "When WBCN changed the world". www.bostonherald.com. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  6. ↑ http://www.library.umass.edu/news/announcements/american-revolution-documentary-archive/ "American Revolution Documentary Archive "

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