Noel Black skateboarders In this short film, Noel Black captures a picture of a changing world. He shows that in this “smooth”, decent as from the picture, “Hoover” America is undergoing irreversible change. And these changes are not in anything terrible. This is not about spies or Martians, sectarians or terrorists. Nope. It's all about ordinary children.
Black talks about enthusiastic skateboarders, and could tell about surfers, as much later brilliantly did John Milius in his “Big Environment”. They are completely ordinary and passionate about their chosen hobby.
In fact, they are the same as before, only much more independent. Yes, of course, Noel Black focuses on skateboards, which these guys generally feel like “kings of peace”. But they are really free and independent, devoid of all this ideological nonsense. By the way, it is the children of their generation that will be destined to “pump” everything into the riotous seventies, and later survive in the hastily made civilization of “yuppies”.
But these “underwater currents” are only realized today. Then, the tape about several skateboarding boys did not claim much and told only about dashing boys. The simplicity and accuracy of the selected images predetermined the coming cultural changes. Moreover, everything was so accurate that even “Savage” Benedek was inferior to skateboarders Noel Black.
6 out of 10