In 1963 & 1964 Robert Carl Cohen became the first US filmmaker authorized by both the
US State Dept. & Cuban Foreign Ministry to film the daily lives of upper, middle and lower
economic class Cubans. Returning to the US, Cohen interviewed an upper economic class
exile who, his aged parents remaining in Cuba, requested anonymity.  The film's production
had to overcome obstacles such as Kodak's selling the Producer defective raw stock & the
loss of the work print from an insured Railway Express shipment.  Its 1965 screening as
"Three Faces of Cuba" on over 100 National Educational TV (NET) affiliated stations led to
violent protests by anti-Castro exiles, hearings before federal agencies, & non-inclusion by
the NET in the usual distribution of its programs to the schools.  Despite having permits
from both the State & Treasury Depts., Cohen's 1963 through 1971 tax returns were audited
by the Internal Revenue Service; which revealed no liability.  Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) files in1975 revealed possible CIA influence in NET's refusal to distribute the film.  
THREE CUBANS provides one of the best documentations of the early effects of Castro's
revolution on the people of Cuba.
AUDIENCE: Concerned Citizens, Students of History, Latin American Affairs, Social Psychology, International
Relations, Sociology, Political Science, Communism.

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