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One Thousand Pictures

Synopsis

In the early afternoon of June 8 1968, following a funeral mass in St Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, the Kennedy family and their guests boarded a train at Penn Station to take the body of Robert F Kennedy, assassinated two days before, back to Washington to bury him next to his brother, John.

What had not been anticipated were the thousands of people who lined the route to pay their respects to the Senator and who were captured by the camera of Magnum photographer Paul Fusco, who was on the train.

ONE THOUSAND PICTURES tells the story of that journey and of America at the time through some of the people who were there and in the pictures, which in turn provide an extraordinary portrait of America in the 1960’s.

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Jennifer Stoddart Producer

Jennifer Stoddart is a Scottish producer based in Edinburgh, where she runs her production company, Lichen Films. Jennifer has produced and directed documentaries for BBC and Channel 4.

Festivals & Awards

Rhode Island International Film Festival

2010

 Winner - Best Short Documentary

Boulder International Film Fest

2011

Winner - Best Documentary Short

Edinburgh International Film Festival

2010

Official Selection

Glasgow Film Festival

2011

Official Selection

Reviews

Stoddart's film is moving, affecting.”

-Eye for FIlm

The film reminds you ...of what images can do, how they can single out or even create an instant of meaning, and then how they might be lost or found, again.”

-PopMatters Film