Apparently this film, which is not listed under the title I've used for the summary under which I rented it, is the one I'm watching right now. So far ... it's about 2x as long as need be because endless montages of newsreels with a couple of extra sound tracks added on - music of the generic doc backdrop variety, then popular music from various eras, or maybe another person starting to speak over the newsreels. There is actually really terrible music editing throughout in which it was deemed a good idea to keep music going long after a montage is finished to somehow buttress scenes that don't call for music but don't stand up as anything in and of themselves, which are sometimes cut side by side after a montage, the whole thing really very frustrating to sit through. Sometimes it's the reverse: a few people speak on camera one after the other, then someone brings up the rock n roll track to remind us of how hip "Bucky" was. It's as though someone decided no footage nor any music ought not to be used that they could find.
I get a kick out of the fact that there is a brief 3 minute or so section of "character assassination" that is quite funny: evidently Mr. Fuller was an egomaniac who kept his phone # listed in any city he'd ever lived in and got pleasure out of checking the phone books in them when passing through and that it was "terribly important" to him that his name be found in them.
I don't think I've never really a noticed a movie so damaged by over-application of music before.
I get a kick out of the fact that there is a brief 3 minute or so section of "character assassination" that is quite funny: evidently Mr. Fuller was an egomaniac who kept his phone # listed in any city he'd ever lived in and got pleasure out of checking the phone books in them when passing through and that it was "terribly important" to him that his name be found in them.
I don't think I've never really a noticed a movie so damaged by over-application of music before.