Comments on: Martin Luther King: “I have a dream” August 28 1963 https://thefilmbook.net/2013/08/martin-luther-king-jr-i-have-a-dream-august-28-1963/ Cinema art & technology edited by Benjamin B - version 3 Tue, 13 Oct 2020 01:21:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: benjamin https://thefilmbook.net/2013/08/martin-luther-king-jr-i-have-a-dream-august-28-1963/#comment-2763 Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:25:02 +0000 https://thefilmbook.net/?p=985#comment-2763 Thank you Barry for the heads up about the copyright issues, and for the explanation for the missing tight shots of the speech.

All the best
Benjamin

]]> By: Barry Strongin https://thefilmbook.net/2013/08/martin-luther-king-jr-i-have-a-dream-august-28-1963/#comment-2735 Sat, 02 Nov 2013 22:15:04 +0000 https://thefilmbook.net/?p=985#comment-2735 Dear Benjamin,

Thank you for your post regarding James Blue’s recently restored USIA film, THE MARCH (1964). I was a student of Blue’s at the University of Buffalo in the late ’70s, and I recall him explaining that his cameras lost sync-sound during Dr. King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, hence the absence of medium shots and close-ups.

Unfortunately, the King family and their lawyers claiming copyright ownership of the speech have recently forced the National Archives to redact the soundtrack of the speech from Blue’s award-winning film. THE MARCH, a poetic documentary of a great historical event, is now bereft of the soundtrack for its most important and transcendent sequence.

Please visit: Remembering Documentary Filmmaker James Blue (1930-1980).
https://www.facebook.com/rememberingdocumentaryfilmmakerjamesblue

Best regards,
Barry Strongin

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