Testing, Testing, How Do You Do?

Testing, Testing, How Do You Do?

16mm and Digital, color, sound, 4 min
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 ...
Rental formats: 16mm, Digital file

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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.”

Programs

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    Three by Sheila Paige and the Miss America Protest

    Four films exploring feminist topics and the Miss America beauty pageant in the 1960s and '70s, for the FMC's multi-program series "Films for Social Change: Revisited and Expanded"

    For the fifth screening in our multi-program series FILMS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: REVISITED AND EXPANDED, join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on Wednesday, March 27th, 2024, at 7pm, for an essential lineup of films from the 1960s and '70s by feminist activist and filmmaker Sheila Paige, plus a Newsreel documentary about the 1969 Miss America pageant and resulting protest. Curated by Robert Schneider.

Films

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