Testing, Testing, How Do You Do?1969

Women’s Liberation protesters target the 1969 Miss America Pageant… The movie shows the boardwalk action — Women’s Liberation protest and crowd reactions — as well as behind-the-scenes pageant preparations inside Convention Hall.

2018 audience comment:
“The first image of this short doc hooked me… I loved this glimpse of the 1969 Miss America pageant protests on the boardwalk juxtaposed with interviews of contestants & dissidents.

The girl next store innocence and (seeming) naïveté of the contestants, the flavor of the NJ locals on the boardwalk – all the opinions expressed, the images, the clothes, the curlers!  The passion of the protesters and how foreign the Women’s Movement seemed to most of the observers.   This short film is a gem.”