Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig

This video documents the career of Arthur Fellig, whose sensationalistic photographs helped to define tabloid and legitimate news photography. Going by the nickname of "Weegee," he gained notoriety with his experiments in manipulating photographs. Over his long career, Fellig immortalized on film dozens of politicians, gangsters, and movie stars.

Famed crime photographer Arthur Fellig, nicknamed Mr. Wee Gee, stars as himself in this pseudo-documentary that begins when he falls in love with a store window dummy and tracks "her" to London, England, then meets up with a beautiful ghost in a haunted house and finally winds up in Paris, where he meets other beautiful women and ends up being chased onto the Eiffel Tower.

Set in Sammy's, Weegee throws a Cocktail Party, for the release of his book Weegee's People.

Set in Sammy's, Weegee throws a Cocktail Party, for the release of his book Weegee's People.

Weegee,... liked to tinker with mirrors and kaleidoscopes and elastic lenses

Um general americano meio louco, Jack D. Ripper, acredita que os soviéticos estão sabotando os reservatórios de água dos Estados Unidos e resolve fazer um ataque anticomunista, bombardeando a União Soviética para se livrar dos "vermelhos". Com as comunicações interrompidas, ele é o único que possui os códigos para parar os bombardeiros e evitar o que provavelmente seria o início da Terceira Guerra Mundial.

Tina is horrified when she crashes her bicycle into a pond and is rescued from drowning and taken to a nudist camp by her rescuer to recover, but naturist bliss and true love await.

Sammy, a zookeeper, prepares to go on a vacation with his friend. He starts to tell his friend about what a good time he had on his last vacation, visiting alligator farms and nudist camps, which are shown in flashbacks.

In a battery of photographs created with the use of mirrors, distorting lenses of his own manufacture and easel tricks, Weegee transformed the Mona Lisa into a work of modern art.

1954. USA. Directed by Weegee. Part of Weegee’s New York. “Weegee (Arthur Fellig) filmed, Amos Vogel edited. The preciousness of the avant-garde shown at Cinema 16 was interrupted by this breath of fresh air. Weegee’s panorama of the crowd may be the greatest single shot in cinedom.” – Ken Jacobs

1954. USA. Directed by Weegee. Part of Weegee’s New York. “Weegee (Arthur Fellig) filmed, Amos Vogel edited. The preciousness of the avant-garde shown at Cinema 16 was interrupted by this breath of fresh air. Weegee’s panorama of the crowd may be the greatest single shot in cinedom.” – Ken Jacobs

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

The best known, "Weegee's New York" (1948), presents a surprisingly lyrical view of the city without a hint of crime or murder. Already this film gives evidence, here very restrained, of Weegee's interest in technical tricks: blur, speeded up or slowed-down film, a lens that makes the city's streets curve as if cars are driving over a rainbow. - The New York Times

The best known, "Weegee's New York" (1948), presents a surprisingly lyrical view of the city without a hint of crime or murder. Already this film gives evidence, here very restrained, of Weegee's interest in technical tricks: blur, speeded up or slowed-down film, a lens that makes the city's streets curve as if cars are driving over a rainbow. - The New York Times

Dois detetives da cidade de Nova York, Don Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) e Jimmy Halloran (Don Taylor) são designados pra investigar um misterioso assassinato de uma mulher. Seguindo os rastros de joias roubadas ligadas ao crime, os detetives localizam Ruth e seu noivo. Os dois, juntamente com o assassino da mulher, controlam um ladrão de joias que vem importunando a sociedade de Nova York. Um dos mais excitantes filmes do gênero "noir" da década.