- Title: PB-62
- Summary: TOWN BLOODY HALL: A DIALOGUE ON WOMEN'S LIBERATION WITH NORMAN MAILER, GERMAINE GREER, DIANA TRILLING, JACQUELINE CEBALLOS, JIL JOHNSTON - APRIL 30, 1971, NEW YORK CITY. THEATRE FOR IDEAS. WOMEN'S LIB. WOMEN'S LIBERATION. FEMINISM. BETTY FREIDAN. FAMOUS, CONTROVERSIAL CULTURAL EVENT FEATURING LEADING FIGURES OF NEW YORK'S INTELLECTUAL ELITE BATTLING EACH OTHER. FILMED AT TOWN HALL
- Description:00:01:35 - DARK, CROWDED ROOM 00:01:46 - PANEL OF WOMEN ADDRESS CROWD, POV BACK OF STAGE, LARGE CROWDED THEATER, TOWN HALL NYC 00:01:55 - CU OF WOMAN SPEAKS ABOUT FINANCES AND WOMAN'S LIBERATION 00:02:08 - PAN OF AUDIENCE MEMBERS, GUESTS ARE INTRODUCED, CUT TO SPEAKER, AUDIENCE CHEERS 00:02:32 - CU OF MAN AT MICROPHONE, PROFILE, NORMAN MAILER, CAMERA ZOOMS OUT TO REVEAL THE PANEL OF SPEAKERS, THEM ZOOMS BACK IN TO MAILER AT PODIUM, TALKS ABOUT HARPER'S MAGAZINE ARTICLE 00:03:47 - MS OF LAUGHING AUDIENCE MEMBERS, CAMERA ZOOMS IN ON SERIOUS FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER LISTENING 00:04:06 - NORMAN MAILER TALKING AT PODIUM, TALKS ABOUT INTELLECTUAL CURRENTS AND NIHILISM 00:04:18 - MS OF GERMAINE GREER LISTENING, SHAG HAIRDO 00:04:26 - CU OF BETTY FRIEDAN 00:04:35 - AUDIENCE MEMBER, WOMAN WITH CAMERA 00:04:42 - MS OF JACQUELINE CEBALLOS, OF NOW, NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN, SHE WALKS TO MICROPHONE AND ADDRESS CROWD, CUT TO AUDIENCE APPLAUDING. TALKS ABOUT NOW, MAKES JOKE ABOUT MAILER BEING PART OF THE ESTABLISHMENT 00:05:15 - MS OF MAILER, MS OF DIANA TRILLING, AND GERMAINE GREER AT MICROPHONES, GREER LAUGHS 00:05:46 - BETTY CEBALLOS AT PODUIM, CUTS TO WHITE AUDIENCE MEMBERS, CU OF CEBALLOS TALKING ABOUT NOW BEING A "SQUARE" ORGANIZATION 00:07:13 - AUDIENCE APPLAUSE, GETS HECKLED, ANGRY MAN YELLING WALKS OUT UNESCORTED 00:07:53 - CU OF MAILER AND GREER 00:07:57 - CEBALLOS TALKS ABOUT, OTHER MOVEMENTS: CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND ENVIRONMENT. WOMEN'S LIBERATION IS THE ROOT, LACK OF ADVANCEMENT OPPORTUNITIES, SUE YOUR COMPANY, MALE HECKLER IN AUDIENCE 00:08:46 - MAILER YELLS "KNOCK IT OFF", CAMERA MOVES TO MS OF MAILER 00:08:58 - AUDIENCE MEMBERS CHEER, CU OF FEMALE SMILING 00:09:01 - CEBALLOS SMILES WHILE SHE IS HECKLED, DISRESPECTFUL AUDIENCE, AUDIENCE CHEERS 00:09:17 - CEBALLOS TALKS ABOUT MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE, NOW IS AGAINST THE STRUCTURE OF MARRIAGE, CU OF TRILLING AND MAILER, PAN OVER TO AUDIENCE LISTENING, WOMEN SMILE AS SHE TALKS ABOUT MARRIAGE INSURANCE AND BEGGING FOR ALIMONY 00:10:23 - CU OF CEBALLOS SPEAKING ABOUT VACATION FOR HOUSEWIVES 00:10:38 - MS OF FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER, CAMERA ZOOMS IN TO CU 00:10:48 - MS OF AUDIENCE 00:10:51 - CU OF BETTY CEBALLOS TALKNG ABOUT ADVERTISING PORTRAYING WOMEN AS "GETTING AN ORGASM FROM SHINY FLOOR" 00:10:58 - CU OF YOUNG WOMAN LISTENING, ROUND GRANNY GLASSES 00:11:17 - GERMAINE GREER SMILES 00:11:25 - NORMAN MAILER LOOKS DOWN, PAN OVER TO JILL JOHNSTON 00:11:35 - ECU OF NORMAN MAILER 00:11:37 - MS OF DIANA TRILLING 00:11:39 - JACQUELINE CEBALLOS RETURNS TO SEAT 00:11:45 - MS OF NORMAN MAILER TRIES TO ASK QUESTION AS HE GETS HECKLED, SAYS "ASSHOLES TALKING TO ASSHOLES". ASKS CEBALLOS A QUESTION TO BE ANSWERED LATER, CAMERA ZOOMS IN ON MAILER 00:12:59 - AUDIENCE AT TOWN HALL 00:13:03 - MS OF JILL JOHNSTON 00:13:07 - MS OF GERMAINE GREER 00:13:12 - MS OF MAILER INTRODUCING GREER 00:13:20 - GERMAINE GREER WALKS TO PODIUM WEARING FUR STOLE AND BLACK DRESS, PAN OVER TO AUDIENCE CHEERING IN THE BALCONY 00:13:37 - GERMAINE GREER SPEAKS TO HALL ABOUT BEING A FEMINIST, ABOUT HER OWN EXPERIENCE, AND THE MASCULINE ARTIST, CUT TO MAILER LAUGHING. ASKS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO MOZART'S SISTER, MALE ARTST'S EGO. SHE STOPS FOR AUDIENCE APPLAUSE. SHE TALKS ABOUT FREUD'S SEXISM, CUTS TO CU OF MAILER 00:18:05 - MS OF MAILER PLAYING WITH PAPER CUP AS GREER SPEAKS 00:18:09 - GREER CONTINUES 00:18:19 - ECU OF AUDIENCE MEMBERS LISTENING 00:18:23 - GREER CONTINUES, CUT TO ECU OF GREER, PAN OVER TO AUDIENCE CHEERING, GREER TALKS ABOUT SYLVIA PLATH 00:19:13 - PROFILE OF GREER SPEAKING 00:19:58 - AUDIENCE MEMBERS, 1960S FASHIONS 00:20:51 - MS OF GREER SPEAKING, TALKS ABOUT THE ARTISANS THAT BUILT CHARTRES AND THE MOSAICS AT BYZANTIUM, ARTISTS WITH NO EGOS 00:21:05 - AUDIENCE APPLAUSE, CU OF WOMEN 00:21:19 - MAILER SPEAKS TO GREER'S COMMENTS, "DIAPER MARXISM", CAN A WOMAN BE A GODDESS AND A SLOB? , CUTS TO CEBALLOS LISTENING 00:22:42 - CU OF GREER SMILING 00:22:47 - MS OF JILL JOHNSTON, WRITER FOR VILLAGE VOICE, GETS UP AND WALKS TO PODIUM EMBELLISHED BELL BOTTOMS, 1960S FASHIONS 00:23:09 - MAKES COMMENT ABOUT BEING BORN IN ENGLAND 00:23:27 - JOHNSTON AT PODIUM, CUTS TO AUDIENCE, JILL TAKES OFF GLASSES AND SPEAKS. "ALL WOMEN ARE LESBIANS EXCEPT THOSE THAT DON'T KNOW IT YET", DISJOINTED LOGIC. CUTS TO WOMEN IN THE AUDIENCE. CUTS TO MEN IN AUDIENCE AS SHE STATES THAT ALL MEN ARE HOMOSEXUALS. CAMERA ZOOMS IN HER JACKET WITH UNION JACK. MAKES JOKES ABOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT LINEAGES, CUTS TO OTHER SPEAKERS LISTENING. JOHNSTON READS BUT DOESN'T SPEAK WELL. MAKES JOKE ABOUT THE PRESIDENT APPOINTING A LESBIAN, COMPARES LESBIANS TO BLACK MEN 00:28:30 - MAILER LISTENING AND GREER LAUGHING 00:28:55 - JOHNSTON CONTINUES READING HER ESSAY, SHE LAUGHS 00:29:35 - MAILER LAUGHING 00:29:41 - JOHNSTON CONTINUES READING FROM HAND WRITTEN ESSAY, "SOME WOMEN WANT TO HAVE THEIR COCK AND EAT IT TOO", USES PROFANITY, TALKS ABOUT THE ISLAND OF LESBO AND SAPPHO, CUT TO CEBALLOS AND MAILER. BIG LAUGH FROM AUDIENCE, JOHNSTON LAUGHS AT HER WRITING 00:31:10 - ECU OF GREER 00:31:16 - JOHNSTON STOPS AS MAILER INTERRUPTS 00:31:37 - ECU OF JILL JOHNSTON, CUT TO WOMAN ON STAGE HUGGING AND KISSING JOHNSTON, LESBIAN LOVERS 00:31:48 - AUDIENCE LAUGHS, ANOTHER WOMAN ON STAGE, THREE WOMEN LYING DOWN ROLLING AROUND, LOVERS 00:32:09 - MAILER MAKES NASTY SMUTTY JOKE, HE CUTS JOHNSTON OFF AGAIN 00:32:27 - MAILER GETS NASTY 00:32:37 - AUDIENCE IS ANGRY 00:32:48 - ECU OF NORMAN MAILER, MAKES SEXIST JOKE, CUT TO CU OF JILL JOHNSTON. AUDIENCE MEMBER YELLS OUT NASTY COMMENT "WHAT'S A MATTER MAILER, YOU FIND A WOMAN YOU CAN'T F---?", HE CALLS HECKLER "CUNTY", YOUNG WOMAN IN AUDIENCE IS DISAPPOINTED 00:33:17 - CU OF MAILER, CUT TO CU OF JOHNSTON 00:33:37 - MAILER DECIDES TO TAKE A VOTE, JOHNSTON LOSES, MAILER INTRODUCES DIANA TRILLING AS JOHNSTON MAKES OUT ON STAGE WITH HER GIRLFRIEND, MAILER AT PODIUM INTRODUCES DIANA TRILLING, SHE WALKS TO PODIUM 00:35:15 - POV STAGE LOOKING INTO BRIGHT LIGHTS 00:35:19 - DIANA TRILLING SPEAKS ABOUT , CUTS TO MAILER AND GREER 00:35:57 - CU OF WOMAN IN AUDIENCE 00:36:04 - CU OF TRILLING, DISRESPECTS MAILER, CUTS TO SPEAKERS AND WOMEN IN THE AUDIENCE 00:36:33 - MAN LOOKS LIKE HE IS SLEEPING IN AUDIENCE, ACTUALLY TAKING NOTES 00:36:44 - VARIOUS CLIPS OF AUDIENCE 00:36:55 - CU OF NORMAN MAILER LISTENING AS TRILLING GIVES HIM A COMPLIMENT, BACK HANDED COMPLIMENT, CUTS TO CU OF GUESTS 00:37:25 - TRILLING CONTINUES, TALKS ABOUT BIOLOGY AND SEX, MAILER'S REJECTION OF BIRTH CONTROL 00:38:29 - CUTS TO AUDIENCE MEMBERS 00:39:00 - TRILLING CONTINUES READING STATEMENT, DOES NOT WANT TO ATTACK MAILER. DISCUSSES BIOLOGY AND THE SEXES, FREUD 00:40:22 - CAMERA ZOOMS IN ON FROWNING MAILER TAKING NOTES 00:40:29 - WOMAN GETS UP AND LEAVES YELLING AND CURSING, CALLS EVERYONE A TRAITOR, INTERRUPTS TRILLING, MAILER MAKES JOKE 00:40:59 - TRILLING CONTINUES, CAMERA ZOOMS IN, CUTS TO AUDIENCE MEMBERS AS TRILLING TALKS ABOUT FEMALE ORGASM, TALKS ABOUT CAMPAIGN TO DENY THE EXISTENCE OF VAGINAL ORGASM, TALKS ABOUT WHAT IS NORMAL IN SEX 00:42:20 - PAN TO AUDIENCE APPLAUDING 00:42:28 - TRILLING CONTINUES, ADDRESSES COMMENTS TO MAILER, PAN OVER TO MAILER WHO GETS UP SMILES AND SHAKES HANDS WITH TRILLING 00:43:20 - AUDIENCE MEMBERS APPLAUDING 00:43:51 - CU OF MAILER, MAKES JOKE AND GETS HECKLED, MAILER ACCUSES TRILLING OF MISUNDERSTANDING HIS VIEWS ON BIOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY. CUT TO LS OF MAILER AS HE SPEAKS, "THERE IS AN ELEMENT IN WOMEN'S LIBERATION THAT TERRIFIES ME, IT TERRIFIES ME BECAUSE IT IS HUMORLESS", ACCUSES WOMEN OF MAYBE BEING COWARDICE, PAN OVER TO AUDIENCE, MAKES COMMENT ABOUT HIS "MODEST LITTLE JEWISH DICK". ASKS QUESTION ON JILL JOHNSTON AND LESBIANISM. MAILER TALKS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY AND GETS HECKLED, "NOT UP MINE, BUDDY", CUT TO AUDIENCE, ACCUSES LESBIANS OF DETESTATION OF MEN 00:49:05 - MAILER FINISHES AND SITS DOWN, TRILLING TALKS ABOUT FREUD AND QUESTIONS GREER, GREER ROLLS HER EYES, COMMENTS ABOUT OPPRESSED PEOPLE, ICU OF TRILLING AS SHE SPEAKS 00:51:27 - CU OF MAILER ADDING COMMENT ON WOMEN'S DESTINY, PROFILES OF SPEAKERS ON STAGE, TALKS ABOUT THE NEXT 50 OR 100 YEARS ABOUT THE NATURE OF SOCIETIES AND THE RAISING OF CHILDREN, MAILER INSULTS GREER'S BOOK, MAKES SEXIST JOKE 00:53:05 - MS OF GREER COMMENTS ON FEUDALISM AND THE RENAISSANCE, MAILER MAKES COMMENT ABOUT TERRORIZATION OF WOMEN BY MEN, CEBALLOS AND GREER QUESTION HIM 00:53:45 - GREER COMMENTS ABOUT MAO ZEDONG AND BLANK SLATE, DEFENDS HISTORIAN KATE?, GETS BIG APPLAUSE 00:54:27 - MAILER TRIES TO TALK, ASKS WHY WOMEN THINK IT IS ALL THE MAN'S FAULT, GREER CALLS MEN TYRANNICAL 00:55:19 - CU OF MAILER GETTING HECKLED, QUICK PAN TO AUDIENCE 00:55:31 - MAILER TALKS ABOUT THE THEATER OF IDEAS AND THE INVITED GUESTS IN THE FRONT ROW 00:56:18 - BERRY FRIEDAN IN AUDIENCE ASKS QUESTION ABOUT WOMEN TRANSCENDING BIOLOGY, STATES THAT WOMEN DON'T ALL AGREE 00:57:28 - CAMERA ZOOMS OUT FROM CU OF MAILER, MAILER RESPONDS TO FRIEDAN'S COMMENT "I SIMPLY DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT" AND GETS A BIG LAUGH, "BETTY, YOU ARE JUST MAKING SPEECHES", GETS A BIG LAUGH, HECKLERS INTERRUPT HIM, "WE'RE ALL STUCK UP SNOTS" 00:58:46 - SUSAN SONTAG ASKS QUESTION OF NORMAN AND DIANA, TAKES ISSUE WITH BEING CALLED "LADY", SMILES 01:00:12 - TRILLING MAKES COMMENT ABOUT THE TERM LADY 01:00:45 - MAILER ANSWERS, DIGS HIMSELF IN DEEPER WITH AUDIENCE, "THERE ARE GOOD REASONS WHY THERE ARE VERY FEW GOOD LADY CRITICS AROUND" AUDIENCE GETS LOUD 01:01:53 - PAN OF AUDIENCE, MAILER INSULTS AGAIN 01:02:00 - GREER MAKES FACE 01:02:06 - WOMAN IN AUDIENCE, LUCY ? ASKS QUESTION ABOUT POWER AND VIOLENCE OVER WOMEN, PAN TO MAILER PLAYING WITH PAPER CUP 01:03:01 - ECU OF SPEAKER, LUCY, QUOTES MAILER "PENIS AS THE AVENGER", CUT TO MAILER GRINNING AND NODDING 01:03:49 - CU OF FEMINIST LUCY, GRANDSTANDING 01:04:08 - MAILER REBUTS AND MAKES SEXIST COMMENTS, DEFENDS HIS WRITING OF CHARACTERS, EVERYONE LAUGHS 01:05:22 - PAN OF AUDIENCE 01:05:27 - MS OF GREER AND MAILER, LIGHTHEARTED EXCHANGE, GREER TALKS ABOUT THE USE OF FORCE 01:05:57 - AUDIENCE APPLAUDING 01:06:02 - ECU OF GREER AND MAILER 01:06:14 - WOMAN IN AUDIENCE ACCUSES MAILER OF NOT COMPREHENDING AND PATRONIZING, SHE ACCUSES HIM OF BEING A PRIEST, TALKS ABOUT "THE PRISONER OF SEX". TALKS ABOUT THE LINGAM OF INDIA. ASKS MAILER AN HUMOROUS QUESTION ABOUT WHAT COLOR INK HE DIPS HIS BALLS IN 01:08:08 - PANEL OF GUESTS LAUGH, MAILER LAUGHS, AUDIENCE LAUGHS, LIGHTHEARTED MOMENT. MAILER RETURNS WITH A JOKE AND CONCEDES TO HER 01:08:49 - MAN FROM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ADDRESS QUESTION TO THE WOMEN ABOUT A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT AND GAY LIBERATION MOVEMENT, GREER ANSWERS AS MAILER POURS WATER, GREER USES THE TALKS ABOUT THOSE THAT FUCK AND THOSE THAT GET FUCKED 01:10:27 - WOMAN IN THE AUDIENCE ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THE NEED FOR CHILDREN, IS THE BODY TIED TO BIOLOGY 01:11:03 - MAILER RESPONDS TO QUESTION, TALKS ABOUT HUMAN NATURE, ECU, "CUT OUT THE CRAP AND THE NAME CALLING", TALKS ABOUT THE MALE POINT OF VIEW, TALKS ABOUT A THE CONSEQUENCES OF A MAN HITTING A WOMAN. YELLS AT A HECKLER, "FUCK YOU TOO" 01:14:56 - ECU OF GREER, CU OF TRILLING 01:15:04 - MAN IN AUDIENCE ASKS QUESTION, JOHN HOLLANDER 01:15:23 - GREER ANSWERS QUESTION, ABOUT RESEMBLING HER MOTHER 01:15:40 - CU OF WOMAN IN AUDIENCE SMILING 01:16:05 - TRILLING TALKS ABOUT GREER'S BOOK, KIDS BEING RAISED BY OTHER FAMILIES AND WHO THEY IDENTIFY WITH, INSULTS GREER 01:17:11 - GREER CLARIFIES THE POINTS IN HER BOOK 01:18:23 - CUT TO LAUGHING AUDIENCE 01:18:29 - MS OF GREER AND PANEL, MAILER INSULTS GREER, GREER INSULTS "HECKLERS IN TOWN BLOODY HALL" 01:18:58 - MAILER MAKES JOKE ABOUT BEING BOYISH, INSULTS GREER, COMPARES HER COMMENTS TO THOSE HE USED TO USE IN BROOKLYN, GETS BIG LAUGH 01:19:39 - CAMERA ZOOMS IN TO WOMAN IN AUDIENCE, ELIZABETH HARTWICK, MAKES JOKES ABOUT DOING DISHES 01:20:34 - MAILER INSULTS SPEAKER, CLARIFIES HIS POINT ABOUT TRYING TO OPERATE LIKE A HOUSEWIFE 01:21:21 - GREER NIT PICKS, MAKES JOKES, MAILER RESPONDS WITH MORE JOKES, AUDIENCE LAUGHS, CU OF PANEL OF GUESTS LAUGHING 01:22:11 - BALCONY AT TOWN HALL 01:22:17 - ANATOL ? ASKS QUESTION ABOUT WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE A WOMAN AFTER LIBERATION, SHE GETS NASTY, "ITS AN UNREALISTIC QUESTION" 01:23:13 - ANATOL IN AUDIENCE CLARIFIES HIS QUESTION, WHAT DO WOMEN WANT? , GREER SAYS ITS NOT FOR YOU, 01:23:35 - NORMAN MAILER THANKS THE AUDIENCE, CUT TO AUDIENCE PUTTING ON THEIR COATS, PHOTOGRAPHER TAKES PICTURES OF THE PANEL, TITLE CARD FOR DATE: APRIL 30, 1971 01:24:11 - END TAPE
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1971
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1970s
- File Name: PB-62