#Edutainment Movie Pick: Goodbye Uncle Tom fettimagazine.files.wordpress/…/goodbye_uncle_to… This Movie is something you MUST watch. Even if you cant at THIS moment, just remember to come back and watch later. America would Never allow this film to be produced so an Italian director decided to make it. By doing so it painted a picture of slavery more consistent with the historical accounts. When I watched it, although I knew a lot of these things before, seeing them presented in this way has an effect on you. And to think, this was happening to my Mothers Grandmothers Mother. That is not as far back as they try and make it seem. ___ FlyboyForever Goodbye Uncle Tom (Italian: Addio Zio Tom) is a 1971 Italian film directed by Mondo film documentary directors Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi with music by Riz Ortolani. It is a pseudo-documentary in which the filmmakers go back in time and visit antebellum America, using period documents to examine, in graphic detail, the racist ideology and degrading conditions faced by Africans under slavery. Because of the use of published documents and materials from the public record, the film labels itself a documentary, though all footage is restaged using actors. Though the film is presented as a documentary, the fantasy framing device of the directors travelling back in time combined with the re-staging of historical events make it one of the earliest known mockumentary films. Press Play and enjoy...
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