Medium Cool
Cinema verité documentary about the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968 mixed with fictional story about a TV cameraman.
Cast & credits
Cast
- John Cassellis Robert Forster
- Eileen Horton Verna Bloom
- Gus Peter Bonerz
- Ruth Marianna Hill
- Harold Horton Harold Blankenship
- Buddy, Harold's father Charles Geary
- Frank Baker Sid McCoy
- Dede Christine Bergstrom
- Karlin, news director William Sickinger
- Pennybaker Robert Mcandrew
- social worker Marrian Walters
- rich lady Beverley Younger
- plain-clothes man Edward Croke
- newscaster Doug Kimball
- gun clinic manager Peter Boyle
- secretary Georgia Tadda
- blonde in car Sandra Ann Roberts
- maid Janet Langhart
- black militant Jeff Donaldson
- black militant Bill Sharp
- black militant Robert Paige
- black militant Richard Abrams
- black militant Walter Bradford
- black militant Russell Davis
- black militant Felton Perry
- black militant Val Grey
- black militant Livingston Lewis
- black militant Barbara O. Jones
- black militant John Jackson
- gun clinic lady Linda Handelman
- gun clinic lady Maria Friedman
- gun clinic lady Kathryn Schubert
- gun clinic lady Barbara Brydenthal
- gun clinic lady Elizabeth Moisant
- gun clinic lady Rose Bormacher
- Kennedy student James Jacobs
- Kennedy student Spence Jackson
- Kennedy student Dorlen Suhr
- Kennedy student Kenneth Whitener
- Kennedy student Connie Fleishauer
- Kennedy student Mary Smith
- Kennedy student Nancy Noble
- media person Simon Zorn
- media person Madeleine Marcou
- media person Mickey Pallas
- media person Morris Bleckman
- media person Lestre Brownlee
- media person Linn Ehrilch
- media person Wally Wright
- media person Sam Venture
- media person George Bouillet
- cast member China Lee
- cast member Roger Phillips
- cast member Robert Blankenship
Credits
Direction
- Director Haskell Wexler
- Assistant Director Wendell James Franklin
- Script Supervisor Meta Rebner
Production
- Production Company H & J Pictures
- Producer Tully Friedman
- [Producer] Jerrold Wexler
- [Producer] Haskell Wexler
- Associate Producer Michael Philip Butler
- Associate Producer Steven North
- Assistant to the Producer Jonathon Haze
- Production Assistant William J. Schwartz
Writing
- Screenplay Haskell Wexler
Photography
- Director of Photography Haskell Wexler
- Camera Operator Michael D. Margulies
- Camera Operator Haskell Wexler
- Camera Assistant Ron Vargas
- Gaffer Tom Ryan
Editing
- Editor Verna Fields
- Assistant Editor Marcia Griffin
- Editorial Consultant Paul Golding
Design
- Art Director Leon Ericksen
Titles
- Title Design James Talbot
Music
- Musical Score Mike Bloomfield
- Incidental Music The Mothers of Invention
- Music Performed by Paul Butterfield
- Music Performed by Mike Bloomfield
- Music Performed by Marcus Doubleday
- Music Performed by Bob Jones
- Music Performed by Noel Jukes
- Music Performed by John Kahn
- Music Performed by Ira Kamin
- Music Performed by Fred Olson
- Music Performed by Jerry Oshita
Sound
- Sound Chris Newman
- Sound Editor Kay Rose
Consultant
- Chicago Consultant Studs Terkel