{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Columbia Revolt | image = | alt = | caption = | native_name = <!--(for non-English films: film's name in its native language)--> | director = <!-- or: |directors = --> | producer = <!-- or: |producers = --> | writer = <!-- or: |writers = --> | screenplay = | story = | based_on = <!-- {{based on|title of the original work|writer of the original work}} --> | starring = | narrator = <!-- or: |narrators = --> | music = | cinematography = | editing = | studio = <!-- or: |production_companies = --> | distributor = <!-- or: |distributors = --> | released = {{film date|1968}} | runtime = | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = <!--(please use condensed and rounded values, e.g. "£11.6 million" not "£11,586,221")--> }} thumb|Part one of ''Columbia Revolt'' thumb|Part two '''''Columbia Revolt''''' is a 50-minute, black-and-white documentary film about the Columbia University protests of 1968. The film was made that year by a collective of independent filmmakers called Newsreel and mostly shot by Melvin Margolis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/68-09.html|title=Columbia University 1968|publisher=Columbia University |access-date=2009-08-16}}</ref> It features a number of off-camera interviews with unnamed students who were involved in the takeover of university buildings.
According to Roz Payne, a member of the Newsreel collective who worked on the film:
<blockquote>The students had taken over 5 buildings. We had a film team in each building. We were shooting from the inside while the rest of the press were outside. We participated in the political negotiations and discussions. Our cameras were used as weapons as well as recording the events. Melvin had a World War II cast iron steel Bell and Howell camera that could take the shock of breaking plate glass windows.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsreel.us/life.htm|title=Roz's Newsreel archives |access-date=2009-08-16}}</ref></blockquote>
The film is sympathetic to the students and is shot in a Cinéma vérité style. It is now in the public domain.
==See also== *List of American films of 1968 *Columbia University *Columbia University protests of 1968 *Cinéma vérité *Political Cinema
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==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0346784|title=Columbia Revolt}} *{{Internet Archive film|id=Columbia1969|name=Part I}} *{{Internet Archive film|id=Columbia1969_2|name=Part II}} *[http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/1968.html Columbia University 1968] by Frank da Cruz * {{cite news|title=Screen: 'The Columbia Revolt' Opens; Student Point of View Taken in Film Documentary on Riots Runs 50 Minutes |last=Sullivan|first=Dan|date=October 8, 1968 |work=The New York Times|page=41}}
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