Christopher Hutsul of Soft Citizen directed this series of four segments under “The Inevitable News” banner, newscasts reporting on “news before it happens…The Inevitable News” for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Canada out of Toronto agency john st. This is the centerpiece of a WWF Canada campaign designed to garner support and action to stop the proposed construction of the Northern Gateway Pipeline through British Columbia’s ecologically sensitive Great Bear region.
The four newscasts are being rolled out on WWF Canada’s Facebook page, capturing the “breaking news” of an “inevitable” oil spill in the Great Bear region highlighting some of the fallout in the region as a result of the disaster.
The Inevitable News will take over WWF-Canada’s Facebook page for the duration of the campaign, allowing fans to help spread the news, interact with broadcasts, and take action, sending letters or emails to Parliament members.
“Most people, myself included, only get behind a cause after something awful has happened,” said Chris Hirsch, associate creative director at john st. “By broadcasting the news before it happens, we’re hoping to encourage Canadians to help put a stop to an environmental disaster before it happens too.”
“Beatles ’64” Documentary Captures Intimate Moments From Landmark U.S. Visit
Likely most people have seen iconic footage of the Beatles performing on "The Ed Sullivan Show." But how many have seen Paul McCartney during that same U.S. trip feeding seagulls off his hotel balcony?
That moment — as well as George Harrison and John Lennon goofing around by exchanging their jackets — are part of the Disney+ documentary "Beatles '64," an intimate look at the English band's first trip to America that uses rare and newly restored footage. It streams Friday.
"It's so fun to be the fly on the wall in those really intimate moments," says Margaret Bodde, who produced alongside Martin Scorsese. "It's just this incredible gift of time and technology to be able to see it now with the decades of time stripped away so that you really feel like you're there."
"Beatles '64" leans into footage of the 14-day trip filmed by documentarians Albert and David Maysles, who left behind 11 hours of the Fab Four goofing around in New York's Plaza hotel or traveling. It was restored by Park Road Post in New Zealand.
"It's beautiful, although it's black and white and it's not widescreen," says director David Tedeschi. "It's like it was shot yesterday and it captures the youth of the four Beatles and the fans."
The footage is augmented by interviews with the two surviving members of the band and people whose lives were impacted, including some of the women who as teens stood outside their hotel hoping to catch a glimpse of the Beatles.
"It was like a crazy love," fan Vickie Brenna-Costa recalls in the documentary. "I can't really understand it now. But then, it was natural."
The film shows the four heartthrobs flirting and dancing at the Peppermint Lounge disco, Harrison noodling with a Woody Guthrie riff on his guitar... Read More