Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

Directors:

Mark Achbar
Peter Wintonick

Release Date:

17 February 2007 (Japan)

Genre:

Documentary | War

Tagline:

A Primer In Intellectual Self-Defense

Plot:

A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.

Plot Keywords:

Political Activist | Political Activism | Conspiracy | East Timor | Media

Awards:

4 wins

Cast

Mark Achbar	...	Himself - Interviewer
Noam Chomsky	...	Himself
Edward S. Herman	...	Himself
William F. Buckley	...	Himself (uncredited)
Peter Jennings	...	Himself (uncredited)
Bill Moyers	...	Himself (uncredited)
Tom Wolfe	...	Himself (uncredited)

Directed by
Mark Achbar
Peter Wintonick

Produced by
Mark Achbar	....	producer: NFB
Francis Miquet	....	associate producer
Francis Miquet	....	line producer
Dennis R. Murphy	....	executive producer: NFB
Colin Neale	....	executive producer: NFB
Adam Symansky	....	producer
Peter Wintonick	....	producer

Original Music by
Carl Schultz

Cinematography by
Mark Achbar
Eddie Becker
Norbert Bunge
Kip Durrin
Dan Garson
Michael Goldberg
Savas Kalogeras
Antonín Lhotsky		(as Antonin Lhotsky)
Francis Miquet
Barry Perles
Ken Reeves
Bill Snider
Kirk Tougas
William Turnley
Peter Walker
Peter Wintonick

Film Editing by
Peter Wintonick

Art Department
Mark Achbar	....	graphic artist
Katharine Asals	....	graphic artist
Joan Churchill	....	graphic artist
Brian Duchscherer	....	graphic artist
Wendy Tilby	....	graphic artist

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Katharine Asals	....	location sound
Shelley Craig	....	sound re-recordist
Leigh Crisp	....	location sound
Jacques Drouin	....	location sound
Greg Glynn	....	dialogue editor
Karen Glynn	....	location sound
Jean-Pierre Joutel	....	sound re-recordist
Gary Marcuse	....	location sound
Francis Miquet	....	sound effects editor
Hans Oomes	....	location sound
Rob Silverthorne	....	location sound
Deanne Snyder	....	location sound (as Deanne Snider)
Peter Wintonick	....	location sound

Special Effects by
Francis Miquet	....	effects editor

Visual Effects by
Pierre Bélanger	....	video to film
Jimmy Chin	....	opticals
Michael Cleary	....	opticals
Michel Dubois	....	opticals
Susan Gourley	....	visual effects (as Sue Gourley)
Richard Martin	....	opticals
Val Teodori	....	opticals

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John Armitt	....	electrician
Robin L.P. Bain	....	animation camera operator
Robin L.P. Bain	....	assistant camera
Tony Buxton	....	assistant camera
Ray Dumas	....	animation camera operator
Caroline Goldie	....	assistant camera
Carol Jarry	....	assistant camera
Lynda Pelley	....	animation camera operator
Pierre Provost	....	animation camera operator
Robert E. Simpson	....	assistant camera (as Robert Simpson)
Gilles Tremblay	....	animation camera operator
Barry Wood	....	animation camera operator

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Mark Achbar	....	animator
Katharine Asals	....	animator
Joan Churchill	....	animator
Brian Duchscherer	....	animator
Wendy Tilby	....	animator

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Katharine Asals	....	first assistant editor
Ronit Bezalel	....	assistant editor
Pierre Compte	....	negative cutter (as Pierre Comte)
Diane Leroux	....	negative cutter
Alison McGillivray	....	assistant editor
Simon Sherwood	....	assistant editor
Denise Valade	....	negative cutter
Mark Vatnsdal	....	assistant editor
Gordon 'Van Gord' Wallbank	....	color timer (as Gordon Wallbank)

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Greg Hohn	....	musician: percussion
Louis Hone	....	music mixer
Louis Hone	....	music recordist
Charlie Robertson	....	musician: sax and wx7
Carl Schultz	....	original score producer

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Thanks
Werner Abraham	....	acknowledgment
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Runtime:

167 min

Country:

Australia | Finland | Norway | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

American University - 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Company:

Humanist Broadcasting Foundation

Trivia:

The "Non-Corporate News" sequence where Chomsky speaks in "real time" while the other TVs are accelerated, was shot by an animator. The 40 second sequence took six weeks of prep and was done in one 15 hour take.

Quotes:

[first lines]
[title card: They who have put out the peoples eyes reproach them of their blindness. - John Milton, 1642. ]
EMTV video host: Three, two, one, take two. Good morning!... My name is Kevin Flook, and I'm your video host all day here at EMTV.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Dominance and Terror: A Discussion with Noam Chomsky (2004) (TV)

Soundtrack:

For What It's Worth

What do you think?

Plain and simple, this was a good movie. At first blush, one may want to say, "Oh, it's kind of like Farenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore". Well, sure - y