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Birth and Death (1968-12-01)
About this film
TV's first examination of death and the meaning it gives to life will be seen on Sunday, December 1, as part of "Birth and Death," the opening feature of the second season of PUBLIC BROADCAST LABORATORY. A passionate celebration of the joys of life, as well as a contemplation of where it ends, this television non-fiction novel was made for PBL by Arthur Barron a practitioner of the cinema-verite method. Mr. Barron began work by searching in a famous natural-childbirth clinic in Manhattan for an expectant young couple who would typify the hopes and aspirations of today's young generation. At the clinic, he found Bruce and Debbie North, two young artists from Brooklyn awaiting the birth of their first child. Through the next two months, Barron and his wife Evelyn, along with cameraman Gener Merner and his wife Carol, lived and waited with the Norths to capture the actual birth on film. The filmmakers shuttled back and forth the length of the city, from the artists' Bohemian digs in Brooklyn to Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, and institution specializing in the care of terminal illnesses. There they found and talked with Albro Persall, a gold smelter, slowly dying of incurable lung can…
Directors & creators
National Educational Television and Radio Center
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Public Broadcast Laboratory, Arthur Barron, Evelyn Barron, Gener Merner, Carol Merner, Bruce North, Debbie North, Albro Persall, Calvary Hospital, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, natural childbirth, terminal illness, lung cancer, cinema-verite
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