Double feature
Point of Order, 1963, 97 min.
Charge and Countercharge, 1968, 43 min.
For his debut film, Point of Order, de Antonio pulled material from 188 hours of kinescopes of the 1954 Army-McCarthy Senate hearings. This collage of television footage was one of the most successful historical documentaries of its time, hailed by Brendan Gill in the New Yorker as “a model . . . [that] should become a precious document of American history.” Created for an educational film distributor, Charge and Countercharge includes archival material related to the Army-McCarthy hearings that did not appear in Point of Order; the film features voice-over narration by de Antonio. The second film begins at 3:00 p.m.