Let truth be the prejudice

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Let truth be the prejudice was the title of W. Eugene Smith's major retrospective at the Jewish Museum in 1971. A 27-minute film of the same name was shot by David X. Young and produced by CBS for its long-running series Lamp Unto My Feet, which featured programs on religion and the arts. Along with soundman Hugh Little, Young recorded over two hours of footage of Smith working in the Jazz Loft studio at 821 6th Ave. in New York City, as well as at the Jewish Museum, as he and his assistants (including Aileen Mioko Sprague, who would soon marry Smith) prepared for the show. This series contains the final 16mm composite print, as well as 16mm picture and full coat magnetic sound outtakes from 1971. Also included are video and audio preservation and use copies created by Vidipax for the Center for Documentary Studies in 2007, for use by Sam Stephenson in the research for his book The Jazz Loft Project. Note that the original picture elements have not been matched to their corresponding sound elements, and that the preservation and use copies, excepting the final 16mm composite, have not been synchronized with their corresponding video or audio.

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