UNDERGROUND: THE FILM THE FBI DIDN'T WANT YOU TO SEE RARE MPI CLAMSHELL VHS TAPE

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UNDERGROUND: THE FILM THE FBI DIDN'T WANT YOU TO SEE
RARE MPI CLAMSHELL CASE VHS TAPE
No release year.
On the lip there is a sticker that states 5/02/91
This is a copy of an important 1976 documentary of America's counter culture of the 60's and 70's.(The Weather Underground and the SDS)
If you have the patience please read the info about this film in full.
Both case and cassette are in great condition.
I see a slight single line on each side of what might be residue from video store sticker.
Not really sure if it was a rental.
If it was it's best one I've ever seen.
The Picture and sound are excellent.
Tape also has tiny scratch in plastic on back top left corner.
There is no rear sticker not sure if there was one.
Some info  printed info on back where sticker should be.
Numbers and such....
Because the members of the WUO were fugitives, filming interviews with them involved considerable risk. By the time of the interviews, they had been underground for five years and didn’t want their secrecy compromised by providing up-to-date images to law enforcement. To safeguard his subjects, de Antonio employed some of the more avant-garde techniques of his career, leading to a film that is both politically and aesthetically daring. For example, the filmmakers set up the subjects with their backs to a mirror, then shot straight into the mirror, revealing the faces of the interviewer and technicians rather than the subjects. The subjects also discuss the film project on camera, wondering how to make a politically effective film. This self-reflexivity is present, to a lesser degree, in Painters Painting, but it is an inescapable part of Underground. Though there is some archival footage of SDS, Malcolm X speaking, the Days of Rage, the murder of Fred Hampton, and other inciting incidents in the history of the WUO, a large part of the film is dedicated to these carefully shot interviews.
The making of Underground attracted a fair amount of government interference. To demonstrate to the filmmakers that they worked in the community, and that community members agreed with their supposedly radical political beliefs, the fugitives went out in public to ask the opinions of people on the street. This dangerous ploy has the intended effect in the film, but it also attracted the attention of the FBI. FBI records in the collection, requested by de Antonio through the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that FBI agents made copies of the audio tracks of the film during post-production in an effort to find the WUO members. On May 28, 1975, the Department of Justice subpoenaed the filmmakers, ordering them to surrender all the materials of the film. This turned the almost-finished film into a cause célèbre in Hollywood, with numerous stars signing a statement of support, including actors Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine, and Sally Field; directors Terrence Malick, Hal Ashby, and Mel Brooks; and Daniel Ellsberg. The subpoena was eventually withdrawn, which de Antonio believed was an effort to weaken support for the film and filmmakers.
At a  press conference de Antonio, Wexler, and Lampson held in Hollywood, and correspondence between de Antonio and Robert Wise, the head of the Directors Guild of America, about forming a committee to defend the First Amendment rights of filmmakers.