Prod. Power to the People: The Black Panthers in Photographs by Stephen Shames and Graphics by Emory Douglas is on view at Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, through October 29, 2016. William Pharr, one of the LA Panther defenders, published his autobiography Nine Lives of a Black Panther: A Story of Survival in 2014, including an account of the shootout. (c) 2015 FIRELIGHT FILMS. Society member access to a journal is achieved in one of the following ways: Many societies offer single sign-on between the society website and Oxford Academic. Board of Trustees AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER STANLEY NELSON REFLECTS ON CIVIL RIGHTS- FROM THE BLACK PANTHERS MOVEMENT TO THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT AND WHAT TODAYS DEMONSTRATORS CAN LEARN FROM THEIR PREDECESSORS WHO FOUGHT BEFORE THEM. Garry Waller The Party espoused a Marxist political stance, manifest in programs such as the Free Breakfast for Children Program and the Peoples Free Medical Clinics. YOU KNOW, SO, YOU KNOW, WE NEVER SAW THAT. All Work is Copyright Of Respective Owner, Otherwise 2023 Aperture Foundation. The organisation collapsed in 1982 but has been remembered by the world ever since. Nelson interviewed over fifty people for the film, with around thirty making it into the final cut. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is a 2015 American documentary film directed and written by Stanley Nelson Jr.. Written, Produced and Directed by Staff Think Again, Letter from London: Long Nights Journey into the Past, Both Sides Of Force The Vote Are The Same, Top Secret: The Real Classified Documents Scandal, Logging for Wildlife is a Destructive Fiction. Their causes, with slogans like power to the people and creating a better world are relevant again in an era that has seen the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and tense relations between African American communities and the police. This fast-moving film on what may be the most controversial group in American history is balanced through stories told from multiple perspectivespolice, FBI agents and infiltrators, journalists, white supporters and detractors, Panther leaders who remained loyal to the party, and . The Black Panthers captured the political imagination of young blacks. Nacio Jan Brown And for Newton, the revolution would belong to the people. YOU KNOW, THE POLICE AND THE POLICE UNIONS ARE VERY, VERY ORGANIZED AND WILL DO ANYTHING, YOU KNOW, TO HOLD ON TO THE POWER THAT THEY HAVE AND THE MONEY THAT THEY HAVE. AND I THINK THAT THAT MAY BE A PROBLEM BECAUSE IT'S AN UNTESTED WAY TO HAVE A MOVEMENT, BUT IT ALSO CAN BE SOMETHING THAT REALLY WORKS IN THIS MOVEMENT'S FAVOR BECAUSE THERE'S NOBODY, YOU KNOW, TO BRING THE MOVEMENT DOWN IF THEY --. Middlebury, VT 05753. YOU KNOW, HE DOES HIS LITTLE TWEETS BECAUSE HE CAN'T HELP HIMSELF, BUT AT SOME POINT, YOU KNOW, THEY WILL REEMERGE. And those 20 Panthers do not include the countless others who were murdered, or had their lives disrupted and wrecked because of their commitment to the liberation of the people. YOU DON'T SEE A LOT OF DONALD TRUMP RIGHT NOW. Bianca Dang The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Central Banks are a Symptom, Capitalism is the Cause, A (Bad) Trip to the Most Radioactive Place in America, The UK: A Return to the Past Masquerading as the Future, Merchants of Spin: Monsantos Astroturfing of Glyphosate in the EU, How the the Pentagons National Defense Strategy Drives Record Military Spending, Oxfam Wants to More than Double the Tax Rate on Our Richest, Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, Rampant Speculation: Uranium, Dirty Bombs and Heathrow, Collateral Damage and Other Slippery Slopes. The collective autobiography of the New York Panther 21, an infamous conspiracy case that highlighted government repression of Black liberation activists during the 1960s and 1970s. Kellita Smith Under license from Universal Music Enterprises, Black Is He built up a cult of personality, calling himself the Supreme Servant of the People. In 1972, Newton shut down the every chapter outside of Oakland, and put the Partys reputation on the line in an attempt to get Seale elected Mayor of Oakland. Chicago Defender Archives Charles E. Jones All rights administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. They famously had an image of openly bearing arms and their overall approach was of a more confrontational style than that preached by Martin Luther King. The film combines archival footage and interviews with surviving Panthers and FBI agents to tell the story of the revolutionary black organization the Black Panther Party. The result was, as is portrayed in the film, COINTELPRO the Counter Intelligence Program organized and implemented by J. Edgar Hoovers FBI to harass, discredit and destroy the Black Panthers and other revolutionary organizations by every dirty trick imaginable, up to and including trumped-up criminal charges and outright assassination. Filmmaker Stanley Nelson examines the rise of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and its impact . ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, YOU KNOW, COULD BE THIS GREAT SPOKESMAN AND SPEAKER AND THERE WERE OTHERS, KATHLEEN CLEAVER, ELAINE BROWN, SO MANY OTHERS, BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHAT HAPPENS AND WHAT YOU SEE IN THE FILM IS AS THESE LEADERS STARTED TO FALTER THEN THE MOVEMENT STARTED TO FALTER BECAUSE IT WAS SO BASED ON THESE LEADERS. Their message of unqualified resistance to racism, armed self-defense and anti-capitalist revolutionary politics galvanized the creation of chapters of the Party in nearly every city and state of the US. YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK THERE IS ALREADY A BACKLASH, I THINK PEOPLE ARE STEELING THEMSELVES TO FIGHT IT AND BACKLASH. I MEAN, ARE YOU RALLYING AGAINST THE FACT THAT A COP, YOU KNOW, SAT ON A GUY'S NECK FOR ALMOST NINE MINUTES UNTIL HE WAS DEAD? Washington State Archives On the Black Panther uniform of leather jackets and berets. Getty Images Mitchell Gersten If your institution is not listed or you cannot sign in to your institutions website, please contact your librarian or administrator. J. Daniel Johnson Courtesy of Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Co. (BMI) FILM SOT: Dear Mr. Newton, Im a 13 year old student and I want to be a Black Panther.Does it matter what your religition Is?What are some qualifircations to be a black Panther?P.S. Their causes, with slogans like power to the people and creating a better world are relevant again in an era that has seen the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and tense relations between African American communities and the police. THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOUGHT RACIAL OPPRESSION IN THE LATE 1960s AND '70s SERVING AS A CATALYST FOR SOCIETAL CHANGE WHILE ALSO AT TIMES RESORTING TO VIOLENCE. By G. Flint Taylor, Contributor Founding Partner, People's Law Office I THINK ONCE YOU SEE THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG IN THIS COUNTRY, ONCE YOUR EYES ARE OPENED, IT'S LIKE SOMEONE SAYS IN THE -- ONE OF THE FIRST LINES IN THE PANTHERS, ONCE YOU SEE IT, YOU CAN'T UNLEARN IT. Marc Nortons website is MarcNortonOnline. Washington University Film & TV Archive Stu Richel It was this new look and they looked so cool, everybody who was young wanted to be a Panther because of the look. [Hoover] issues memos that basically say to his agents, "Do anything that you can, anything that you can think of to destroy the party." YOU KNOW, THE PROTESTS OVER GEORGE FLOYD'S DEATH IN POLICE CUSTODY HAVE IGNITED WHAT SOME HAVE CALLED THE NEXT CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. Fifty years ago, it seemed, the world was poised for revolution. NBC News Archives IT'S LIKE YOU GIVE A HORSE, YOU KNOW, IT'S REINS, GO AHEAD, I HAVE TO LET YOU RUN, I CAN'T STOP YOU. The exhibition, however, resists sustained analysis in favor of the images. But Nelsons film is the best short introduction to the Party to date. WGBH Media Library & Archives "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" opens with an old "Soul Train" clip of musical legends, The Chi-Lites. YOU KNOW, I WAS BORN, YOU KNOW, IN 1951 SO FOR THE FIRST 15 YEARS OF MY LIFE I NEVER EVER SAW A BLACK MAN PUT HIS FINGER IN A WHITE MAN'S FACE AND SAY, NO, NO, NO. Free standard shipping with $35 orders. Seale gave the powers-that-be in Oakland a run for their money, but came in second, leaving the Party politically adrift. Stephen Shames, Black Panther member sells The Black Panther, the Partys newspaper, in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts, 1970Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York. Greetings again from the darkness. FAQ Tribune Content Agency All Rights Reserved. THAT WAS SO THEIR MESSAGE, YOU KNOW, MIGHT HAVE STARTED OUT HERE, BUT, YOU KNOW, IT DIDN'T PREACH MORE AND MORE AND MORE RADICAL VIOLENCE AND KIND OF BACKED THEM INTO A CORNER THAT WAS VERY HARD FOR THEM TO GET OUT OF. I think that the Black Panthers and the leadership felt that their phones were tapped and those kind of things, but nobody understood the extent that the FBI was going to destroy the Panthers and other groups. YOU KNOW, THOSE OF US OF A CERTAIN AGE ARE PROBABLY PRETTY FAMILIAR WITH THE BLACK PANTHERS, THOSE OF US WHO WERE PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY WERE DOING AS A MOMENT IN HISTORY, BUT I THINK A LOT OF OUR YOUNGER VIEWERS ARE PROBABLY MORE -- KNOW MORE ABOUT THEIR MYTH THAN THEIR REALITY. In a series of four images, Newton and Seale pose for the photographer, unable to hold their laughter as they prepare for a portrait. NARRATOR The organisation combated police brutality aimed at African-Americans but fell apart because of internal tensions and shootouts. The youthfulness of the Panthers was an asset, a potency that enhanced the reach of their radical actions. WNET Health Care in Crisis: Warning! The Black Panther Party was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966. The film combines archival footage and interviews with surviving Panthers and FBI agents to tell the story of the revolutionary black organization the Black Panther Party. They were freedom fighters. Albert Preciado A lot of people don't know that was really part of the traditional civil rights movement, that they dressed up because they wanted to show you the difference between them all dressed up in suits and ties the women were encouraged to wear dresses and sometimes little white gloves because they wanted to show you the difference between them and the mobs that would be chasing them or screaming at them. Black Panthers, Agns Varda 1968 Patrick Ulysse, Supervising Sound-Editor + Re-Recording Mixer The Black Panther Party was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966. Stephen Shames/Polaris Images If the lessons of the Partys successes and failures can offer us any insight, it would be their insistent demand to organize, resist, and ultimately, to act. Stephen Shames, Free Breakfast Program, Panther Jerry Dunigan, known as Odinka, talks to kids while they eat breakfast on Chicagos South Side, Chicago, Illinois, 1970Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York. Stanleys documentary, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, is streaming on PBS and also re-airing this week on Independent Lens on Thirteen and WLIW. Police harassment and brutality against young black men became one of the main sources of recruitment for the Black Panthers. 4:30 - 7:00 PM ET. He is also co-founder and executive director of Firelight Media, which provides support to emerging documentarians. Federal Bureau of Investigation Do not use an Oxford Academic personal account. Corbis If you see Sign in through society site in the sign in pane within a journal: If you do not have a society account or have forgotten your username or password, please contact your society. tells the story of a pivotal movement that gave rise to a new revolutionary culture in America. Music Years after its first utterance, Newtons claim remains the most definitive statement regarding the ethos that guided the Panthers. The legacyof Hoovers actionsinfiltration, assassinations, criminalist discourse about the Panthersstill lingers. Members of the Black Panthers line up at a rally at DeFremery Park in Oakland, Calif. The Black Panthers condemnations of injustice, oppression and brutality in the late 60s and early 70s reverberate again in one city after another. Because of a quirk in California law, the men were able to carry loaded weapons openly. The film premiered on January 23, 2015 at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival before receiving a limited North American theatrical release on September 2, 2015. Stephen Shames, Kathleen Cleaver, Communications Secretary and the first female member of the Partys decision-making Central Committee, talks with Black Panthers from Los Angeles, in DeFremery Park, West Oakland, California,July 28, 1968Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York. When Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Party in 1966, they were riding a wave of rebellion that had engulfed Black America from boycotts, sit-ins and Freedom Rides in the South, to mass riots and near-insurrections in the Black ghettoes of the North. Still, the Pantherslegacy looms large. The Black Panthers fought racial oppression in the late 60s and 70s, serving as a catalyst for societal change while also at times resorting to violence. Producers Library We hear a great deal about the Black Panthers The postwar capitalist boom had left out tens of millions of workers and the poor, and the poverty rate remained . Ron Thompson Advertising Many people know that we exploited the Black Panthers but I think there is a lot of evidence that they used us to their advantage.They were able to establish their legitimacy as a voice of protest. YOU KNOW, YOU MENTIONED BACKLASH AND I WAS THINKING BECAUSE I WAS THERE, TO REMEMBER IT ALL, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED AS A RESULT OF THE TUMULT OF THE 1960s IN PARTICULAR, THE VIOLENCE AND TUMULT OF 1968 WAS IN PART -- IN PART IT LED TO THE ELECTION OF RICHARD NIXON, RIGHT, AND THE FAMOUS BACKLASH. The alluring nature of the organisation and violent controversies that followed it led to its rise and fall. The film combines archival footage and interviews with surviving Panthers and FBI agents to tell the story of the revolutionary black organization the Black Panther Party. Isnt it beautiful?Allright! THAT IS MY UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIAL, STANLEY. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is a 2015 American documentary film directed and written by Stanley Nelson Jr. Stephen Shames revisits his chronicleof American activism. View the institutional accounts that are providing access. Old Chapel Road. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought to drastically transform the system. The film explores the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th centurys most controversial organizations. vanOs, Media Managers The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of that change. SOT: Kathleen Cleaver, Black Panther Party Music Center for Sacramento History, KCRA TV Film Collection The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of that change. Lisbet Tellefson You Save: $3.75 (15%) MetroFocus is made possible by Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, the Filomen M. D'Agostino Foundation, The Peter G. Peterson and Joan Ganz Cooney Fund, Bernard and Denise Schwartz, Barbara Hope Zuckerberg, Jody and John Arnhold, the Dr. Robert C. and Tina Sohn Foundation, The Ambrose Monell Foundation and the Estate of Roland Karlen. Courtesy of Dynatone Publishing Company (BMI) (Actor), Stanley Nelson (Director) Rated: PG-13. Claudia Katayanagi Nate Horowitz The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution a three-part series covering African-American history and the revolutionary Black Panther Party. Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos write me back personally. Doug Coronado TAGS: black lives matter, black panthers, civil rights, Protests, stanley nelson, vanguard of the revolution, 2023 WNET. By what name was The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015) officially released in Canada in English? Virgil Roberts WE WELCOME YOU BACK TO THE PROGRAM. Nelsons film documents what those who lived through it already know that the Panthers quickly became a mass movement throughout the country. Performed by Billy Paul NARRATOR Others, including Eldridge Cleaver, David Hilliard and Elaine Brown rode the tiger of leadership of the Party, but it was the rank-and-file of the many Party members who kept the fire burning. The title of Stanley Nelsons new documentary film The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, says it clearly. Led by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, the Panthers put forth a 10-point program that sought to address a host of problems, including police brutality, poor housing and subpar education. While some critics have taken fault with Vanguard of the Revolution's condensed approach to retelling the story of the Black Panther Party, others praise it . Some societies use Oxford Academic personal accounts to provide access to their members. One thing people dont understand about the Black Panther Party is that the median age of a Party member in 1969 was nineteen years old, Huggins notes. Much of the archival footage used in the film has never been publicly broadcast before, with much time and effort going into locating and digitizing obscure resources. Support for the Panthers was broad and deep, as the film makes clear, surviving and flourishing even while Newton was locked up for the alleged murder of a police officer, and Seale faced a series of trumped-up criminal charges. YOU KNOW, IF YOU THINK THAT -- THAT YOU CAN DEFUND THE POLICE WITHOUT AN ORGANIZED OBJECTION FROM THE POLICE, THEN YOU'RE WRONG. Both of these twentieth-century movements, which captured the imagination of young African Americans, declined in less than a decade. NARRATOR Antonio Lopez Fifty years ago, on October 15, 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Oakland, California. This is Aalto. Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, The institutional subscription may not cover the content that you are trying to access. Documentary Fortnight (Feb 13 - 28, 2015): http://bit.ly/1LfavqN-"The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" is the first feature-length documentary to . Kia Campbell Tommy Hawkins Lucy Flores The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the Vanguard of that change. Shades, afros, black leather jackets and revolution - few political parties have harnessed style quite like the Black Panthers. The alluring nature of the organisation and violent controversies that followed it led to its rise and fall. The book also incorporates excerpts from Newtons interviews and speeches into a roundtable of recollections from still-living Party members. The film does a good job of showing the operation of the Panthers Free Breakfast program, which itself was an expression of the mass character of the Party. This film was produced by Firelight Films, Inc., which is solely responsible for its content. Additional Footage provided courtesy of Maysles Films, Inc, Music "When the Panthers came into being, there were a number of people, especially young people, who kind of felt that the civil rights movement of Martin Luther King had run its course," Nelson says. We're not asking for a right to sit on a bus or eat in a restaurant our demands are much more radical, and they might be over-the-top, but they'll also get your attention." Older politically-minded people who have gotten fuzzy about the lengths to which our ruling class will go to stamp out opposition should also see the film. Stephen Shames, Black Panther co-founders Bobby Seale & Huey Newton pose in Hueys penthouse apartment, Oakland, California, 1971Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York. Diandra Durand Terms of Use. Should you ask any two people to share their thoughts on the Panthers, youre likely to receive divided answers about strategy, effectiveness, and importance. Kathleen Cleaver, Voice-Over Actors [@8:00 to understand the Panthers at all you have to understand what was going on in this period that we cover on the film 1966 to73.You know when there were all these movementschurningin America at the time.There was the traditional civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the student movement the women's liberation movement there were all these things about what happened and they were all part of you know what was going on in the states. HOST INTRO Courtesy of Republic Records Emory Douglas The Black Panthers movement. Hilary Hughley The director notes that when he began the film seven years ago, he could never have anticipated that it would be released at a time when issues of police brutality and justice for African-Americans were so prominent. Earl Leon Anthony Dir. Screening and Discussion in partnership with Vermont Public Television and Prof. Bill Hart of "Indie Lens Pop-Up's The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution". Shames accesses the intimacies of the Partys interior world, and his photographs evoke a tenderness that is hard to shake. Jordan Miller Carolyn Turner, VOA NEWS, Washington. BUT I THINK -- I THINK THERE WILL BE, YOU KNOW, A STRONG -- A STRONG BACKLASH. KGO-TV James T. Campbell US Capitalism is Lethal, The Bridge of Stones: a Migrant Christmas Story, Nichole Stephens, Administrative Assistant. A free showing of the film "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" will be screened at the Peterborough Community Theatre on Tuesday at 7 p.m. At the 50-year anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party by Bobby Seale and the late Huey P. Newton, a new film by Stanley Nelson explores the history of that movement, the . Courtesy of The Estate of Gil Scott-Heron/Rumal Rackley Administrator, Voodoo Child (Slight Return) Sam Aleshinloye/Courtesy of Firelight Media Harry Carey Black Pantthers Some stories are told using media archival footage from the media, while others are conveyed from the point of view of those previously involved with and against the group. Caleb Mose Administered by Unichappell Music, Inc. (BMI) By 1968 Bobby Hutton was the first Black Panther to die at the hands of the police.It was viewed as Police Brutality by Panther sympathizers. Miranda Sullivan Kenneth OReilly In the turbulent 1960s, change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution December 4, 1969 is the 46th anniversary of the assassination of Chicago Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, and, four days later, of the shootout between the Los Angeles Black Panthers and the LAPD. Paul Bass The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of that change. Gautam Choudhury And I think [what] the Black Panthers wanted to do they wanted to get attention. In the era of Black Lives Matter, what is the legacy of the Black Panther Party? Alondra Nelson It's saying, "OK, we're going to totally break from what the traditional civil rights movement is asking for. A Professional theme for architects, construction and interior designers Revisit the turbulent 1960s, when a new revolutionary culture emerged with the Black Panther Party at the vanguard. Courtesy of Stephen Shames and Firelight Media Format: DVD. Stephen Shames, Children at a Free Huey, Free Bobby rally in front of the Federal Building, San Francisco, California, February, 1970Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York. Jobs Freedom Archives YOU KNOW, SO THAT WAS A CRUCIAL -- I THINK ALSO, YOU KNOW, FOR BETTER OR WORSE THE PANTHERS WERE VERY MUCH DRIVEN BY PERSONALITIES, BY THEIR LEADERS, AND THAT WAS GREAT IN THE BEGINNING AND SLOGANISM, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD SAY FREE HUEY WHEN NOBODY REALLY KNEW WHO HUEY WAS, YOU KNOW, LET'S FREE HUEY. Jonathan Eubanks And Im going to do as much as I can, Im going to start right now. The Panther Party was riddled with informants. You didn't know what was true or what was not true; you didn't know who your friends were. THE PANTHERS CHANGED THE WAY WE RESPOND AS AFRICAN-AMERICANS. The film interviews surviving FBI agents and Black Panthers to get their side of things and help fill in the gaps. Estate of Howard Brodie, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-123456], ABC Videosource Partners Chicago Film Archives NARRATOR Sara W. Duke Master documentarian Stanley Nelson goes straight to the source, weaving a treasure trove of rare archival . The Party was not immune to the surveillance of the federal government; former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover made it his mission to cripple the Party through his COINTELPRO program. They had no background checks that they could do on people, so they had this kind of open-door policy: If you wanted to join the Panthers, they wanted you to be part of it. SOT: Marlon Brando document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); WatchDocumentaries.com | Games | Quizzes | Contact |Privacy & Terms | Manage Cookies |Advertise | DMCA, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. Stephen Shames, Memorial mural for Jonathan Jackson, who was killed on August 7, 1970, during an attempt to kidnap California Superior Court judge Harold Haley and three others to exchange for the freedom of his brother, George Jackson, Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts, 1970Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York. COINTELPRO and the massive state persecution of the Panthers put the organization on the defensive, and exacerbated existing political tensions, setting the stage for a very public split between Newton and Cleaver in 1971. 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