David Loeb Weiss

Birth : , Warsaw, Poland

History

Former proofreader at the New York Times and documentary director.

Movies

Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu
Editor
A documentary about the last issue of The New York Times to be composed in the hot-metal printing process.
Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu
Writer
A documentary about the last issue of The New York Times to be composed in the hot-metal printing process.
Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu
Director
A documentary about the last issue of The New York Times to be composed in the hot-metal printing process.
To Make a Revolution
Director
David Loeb Weiss completed a short documentary called To Make a Revolution about the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA), a revolutionary Marxist youth group closely allied to the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party.
No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger
Director
In defending his refusal to be conscripted into the Vietnam War, champion boxer Muhammed Ali defiantly declared: ‘No Vietcong ever called me a nigger, my enemies are white people, not the Vietcong.’ His rebuttal suggested the title of this documentary, which depicts an anti-Vietnam-War rally in New York in 1967.
Profile of a Peace Parade
Director
David’s first film, “Profile of a Peace Parade,” (1968) features interviews with antiwar New Yorkers at a large demonstration in Manhattan.