Night Shift - Celebrate Film #4

DateNovember 1 1992

Can DescriptionsNigh Shift no. 4 X1800 Master Celebrate Film Air: 11/13/92 Rec: 11/1/92

AbstractNight Shift; Celebrate Film; theme music and visuals; Magen and Cutter introduce the show; "The Final Stroke" opens with golf players talking about the game when kids run across the green; they talk about the horrors of child conception; one player looks for his lost golf ball and comes upon a young man crouched against a tree; the golf player collects his ball and resumes play while complaining about young people; the young man comes out of the trees and threatens the players with a gun; he takes their bags of clubs and marches on to the course; they play some more with the young man posing as a caddy but ordering the players about each shot; the wife of one of the players shows up on the course, and wants to conceive a child before she makes a work trip; the gunman's wife shows up with a baby and berates him for failing to provide for their family; police show up and confront the young man; the police search him and do not find the money he is accused of stealing; he previously had handed it to one of the golf players. After the police leave, the golf player and his wife go off into the woods for some privacy while his golf partner looks on in disbelief; Magen and Cutter talk about the financing of film-making by students; "Dark Cities: A Film Poem" begins with shadowy images of building fronts, fences and a park; a male voice-over follows a man as he leaves the park and travels to home; he meets a woman and they open umbrellas; they go to a balcony and overhear another man shouting at Teresa; there are other images of candles being lit, a woman watches out the window and draws a shade; the umbrella man pedals a stationary bike; figures march up and down the sidewalk; the camera follows the crack in a sidewalk; a woman's body is wrapped in cellophane; the umbrella man talks to a lighted candle he is holding, and the woman with an umbrella goes to the sidewalk, to be tossed about by those marching around her; Magen and Cutter describe the parts of the movie that disturbed them;

OtherIn the studio Magen Banwart, Cutter Garcia, Gloria Harrison, Pamela Picard, Jam Hakim, Susan Krieger, Gretchen Soehner, Jim Watson, Frankie Lee Kifo, Tom Nielson, Larry McCarthy, Leon Goldman, Bob Marsocci, Elizabeth Cheng, Mark Kamine, Jim McLaughlin;