Newsday (Suffolk Edition) from Melville, New York • 49

On Television Welfare Inquiry Offers No Relief By Barbara Delatiner One of the big problems TV docuiite ntirims encounter is this business of being constructive you know offering solutions to the problems posed Sometimes answers are liaid if not impossible to come by Other times they are available and can prove even more fascinating than the original dilemma itself Such was the case last night when on Channel 13 explored Welfare As far as it went this study of growing unrest among the tanks of public assistance recipients was informative By focusing on a few of the S0000l0 Americans the vast majority of whom aie sup- Srtcd by the program called Aid for Dependent lildrcn the hour dramatically essayed the ills of our antiquated welfjre system: the degradation involved in literally begging for funds the inadequacies of allotments that prevent children from escaping the relief mentality svndiomc flu impersonal ineffectual paperwork that saps about half cf the SS billion spent annually and the attempts by disgruntled to' organize ii movement that will win for them with LONG-RANGE VIEWS Students from rodham end New York Universities et the Museum of Modern Art in Menhetten converse with Jeen-Peul Sertre in Peris yesterday after attending a screening of a new movie "The Wall" based on a Sartre story Conversation was conducted via a transatlantic telephone call with Robert Bardey of Radio Luxemberg holding microphone relaying student's questions Rut having vividlv illustiatid tin banks uptrv of the policy pnxIiKer-wnttr Herbert Krosiuy unfortunately onlv paid lip service to alternatives mentioning in passing the necessity for higher moic uniform standards money and the need for incentives that would encourage ciiipliniiicnt Only in the final moments of the hour were less generalized measures suggested is the only western country that degrades the poor in tlie way it gives welfare the narrator teased In most others the state provides a family allowance that amounts to an income fltmr below which no one can fall: an adequate guaranteed niiiimium income which helped to dcstrov the welfare cvclc i TT'i' On Movies Camera Is Accompanist oFolkSingersin Festival How does this work in other indudiial nalrnm? Can it be adapted here? Would it indeed be a panacea an effective weapon in the War on Poverty? Carried away hv the human cave-fustory elements of the story the producer did not get down to specifics Welfare clcariv requires a sequef For thnve interested in half the story the documentary will be repealed tonight on ChaniKl 13 at II Muted in Brief Meanwhile in another sphere of the escape ABC News offered an electronic portrait of Bryant: Though the hour mciitimicd his successful libel suit against the magazine that accused him of rigging a game and though it suggested that he might be responsible for college football tlie study was generally a gentle sympathetic picture of I controversial figure With cameras and microphones failing to tum up a harsh word or devious indeed pravers the vilification of the University of Alahama's Coavh Bn ant is now more complete If you've seen one fish you've probably seen them all Except on TV where last Thomas took us to San Sea World It was music pikes fish and foul What else could you call watching insult comic Thm Rickies being kissed by a killer whale? Last night's reported of ABCs Long Childhood of was at a minimal confined in the closing minutes cf this study of a retarded hoy to a brut progress report on his first scar at sclirxj Bv Joseph Gelmis is a compilation of footage from the Newport (RI) Folk Music Festivals of 1963-66 But the film docs more that just records the singers musicians and audience it also orchestrates them Its tempo is onlv in part a technical quality achievcd by the selection of performances (Bob Dylan Donovan Joan Baez Judy Collins Pete Secger Johnny Cash Peter Paul and Mary etc) and their arrangement in the film Producer-director Murray Lemer understands how folk singers and their public collaborate And so he has made a lucid and often exciting document of the rapport that exists between singers with something to say and an audience more interested in ideas than in a beat or a sound Shot in 16-mm and enlarged to 35-mm was a prize winner at this Venice Film Festival It opened yesterday in Manhattan The photography is adequate workmanlike Occasionally the camera eye is trapped in claustrophobic closeups of hands and bodies and it is nard to grasp what is happening The sound is understandably excellent since the events were after all concerts A series of musical performances has structural variety but may easilv lack continuity Nonetheless holds together very well Interspersed through it are closeups and some interviews with the audience during the long festival weekends The grounds are littered with youths unshaven and unwashed camping out to save money huddling around a fire stretched out in sleeping bags or even sprawling uncomfortably across their motor scooters to get a nap Lemer does not depend entirely on reporting He also creates some meaningful dialogue him- self At one point he calls for a during the filming of an impromptu amateur concert in the camping grounds A freckle-faced jug-eared musician who looks like the hero of Mad magazine astutely protests while the camera continues to roll that I -emi is trying to edit his reality and that in fact Lemer is a participant in the festival because he is playing on his camera as though it were an instrument Don't Look Back" A less engaging but more probing document of the folk-singing scene is Look a backstage record of Bob 1965 British concert tour The film opened recently in New York In both these films Dvlan seems inarticulate moody unable cr unwilling to communicate Next to the good-humored extroverted easy grace and intelligence of Joan Baez Dvlan appears often catatonic rather than a catalyst and the most influential folk-poet of his generation One wonders why no one has made for at least shown here) a film about Miss Baez whose singing and politics are more the explosive stuff of which provocative films are made Dvlan is net photogenic nor particularly personable as the camera records him One suspects that the camera may have alienated him and that he mav be too vulnerable to want to reveal himself either to his fans or the camera For how one wonders can Dylan be so eloquent with his protest songs and so sapid and tongue-tied in his conversations The peripheral action is often more revealing than the main event Dylan's manager is a gross figure who wheels and deals like a rug peddler Tne first time Dylan shows real anger is during an abortive interview with a Time magazine re- Krtcr The reporter takes the fbcuslcss brunt of antiestablishment ire The singer insists vehemently that he is a success enough without an article in Time and that Time and the other slick magazines print the trath anyway He is asked what is this truth about life that he wants to see printed? Dylan's imagination boggles This spokesman for his generation offers umcly drunk unable to suggest valid alternatives to the Timc-Lifc-Luce vision of life which he abhors 11 Arts Groups to Get 94Gs in State Grants New York Tlie New York State Council on the Arts has announced a total of $94330 in grants to 11 arts groups under the council's special projects program for 1967-6S Tlie Brooklyn Academy of Music is to rcceisc a planning grant of $I230d for the development of a multiracial professional theater program and die Buffalo Festival of the Arts Today is to receive 3(HK) for the festival scheduled from March 2 to 17 Crants for new works include $10000 to Hunter College for a Image of concert series incorporating poetry music film and dance $3000 to the New Lafayette Theater to produce two new plays bv Negro writers Cot His and the Wine Time $10000 to the New York Shakesncare Festival Public Theater for the production of new plays $10000 to the Paperbag Players for 60 children's theater productions in New York City schools and underprivileged areas Grants in new areas include $11230 to Jazz Interactions Inc for 30 jazz concerts and lectures at schools in tlie metropolitan area $12300 to the State University of New York at Buffalo foe the production of the first two ivsues of a journal on translation of foreign languages $3300 to the Drama Review at New York University formerly the Tulane Drama Review $4800 to die Bread and Puppet Theater for continued work in disadvantaged areas of the city and $8000 to Experiments in Art and Technology Inc Nensday tW Tl-VS -W! r-M a Index Eridge I2A Business 15A-19A Classified 12B-29B Crossword 12A CTyptoquote 12A Delatiner 2A Gelmis 2A Genauer 1A Ifovi Timetable 7A News Calendar 13A Oppenheimer 3A Radio Listings 6A Sports 2CA-2SA Telstock Phones 19A TV listings 5A Your Problem? 12A Weather Map 12A Wilson 7A 2 A.