Up Against the Wall Miss America (1968)
1968 · Ephemeral film · 6 min · dir. Bev Grant
Synopsis
"Here she comes…" At the 1968 Miss America pageant, demonstrators introduced a sheep as the appropriate winner. This entertaining short film shows how Women's Liberation activists used guerrilla theater to raise awareness of what Miss America really represents. The film was widely screened by the second wave women's movement and is a vivid document of the movement's activists in action.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Bev Grant
- Studio
- Newsreel
- Released
- 1968-08-08
- Running time
- 6 minutes
Cast & crew
- Bev Grant Director
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Aint She Cheap? · Spuzz · 2023-02-06
Of all the "Newsreel" movies (that is, the film company called "newsreel"), this one, about some female opposition to beauty pageants, was definitely the most accessible and interesting. Shows us their demonstrations and ways of protesting, while showing some images of the goings-on in the Atlantic City area during the pageant. It's not exactly hard-hitting (as per usual with Newsreel films) but at least this was watchable all the way through.
