#45. Our Nixon – Penny Lane and Brian Frye
I’m curious to see what they’ve found and I’m more curious in seeing how married filmmaking couple journo Brian L. Frye and art prof Penny Lane pieced together a treasure trove of Super 8 home movies filmed by Nixon’s closest aides (view trailer). Currently in post, the Cinereach supported, Kickstarter helped Our Nixon appears to be a paean to a small snippet of an era (1969-1972) that could play in anything from the Frontier section to the Spotlight Docs section to the fest U.S Doc Comp. If it does get included I want dibs on the Tricky Dick electoral pins.
Gist: Everyone knows that during the Watergate investigation, the FBI confiscated more than 3700 hours of Nixon’s secret tape recordings. But the FBI also confiscated 204 reels of Super-8 film. The confiscated films were home movies made by Chief of Staff H.R. “Bob” Haldeman, Chief Domestic Advisor John Ehrlichman and Special Assistant to the President Dwight Chapin. Everyone knows about the secret tapes because they forced Nixon to resign.
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