![Profile of man](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013431/LHWebSitePic-177-224x300.jpg)
![Man in baret rolling cigarette](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013427/LHWebSitePic-175-300x220.jpg)
Leo rolls a cigarette with nothing inside to help stop smoking Photo - Martina Müller
![Man with glasses gesturing](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013424/LHWebSitePic-173-300x220.jpg)
![Man with cigarette gesturing](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013422/LHWebSitePic-172-300x242.jpg)
![Man with glasses talks to camera](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013409/LHWebSitePic-164-300x203.jpg)
![standing man in baret listens to table conversation](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013410/LHWebSitePic-165-300x205.jpg)
![Man with goatee holding a glass](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013435/LHWebSitePic-180-210x300.jpg)
Photo Jesse Ehrensaft Hawley
![Man with goatee, holding a cigarette](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013434/LHWebSitePic-179-212x300.jpg)
![](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013432/LHWebSitePic-178-300x236.jpg)
Leo at home on West End Avenue
![Man in Chinese pose on beach](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013429/LHWebSitePic-176-300x233.jpg)
Photo 1970, Deborah Dickson. Leo practicing Tai Chi Chuan in Martha's Vineyard.
![](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013426/LHWebSitePic-174-300x222.jpg)
…On one of Leo’s innumerable walks and discussions Photo - Martina Müller
![Man speaks before movies screen to audience](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013420/LHWebSitePic-171-300x212.jpg)
![](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013418/LHWebSitePic-170-300x201.jpg)
Leo being interviewed in Milan
![Man in plaid shirt lectures to audience](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013416/LHWebSitePic-169-300x176.jpg)
Leo lectures at Folkets Bio, Stockholm
![Man in plaid shirt lectures to audience](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013415/LHWebSitePic-168-300x202.jpg)
Leo lectures at Folkets Bio, Stokholm
![Man in plaid shirt lectures to audience](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013413/LHWebSitePic-167-300x205.jpg)
Leo lectures at Folkets Bio, Stokholm
![Man in plaid shirt listens to neighbor at table](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013411/LHWebSitePic-166-300x203.jpg)
![Man in trench coat poses with woman friend and child](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013408/LHWebSitePic-163-300x206.jpg)
![Man in trench coat seated](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013407/LHWebSitePic-162-202x300.jpg)
photo Cathy Chamorey
![Man seated on spiral starcase, talking intently](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013406/LHWebSitePic-161-218x300.jpg)
Photo Cathy Chamorey
![Two men talking in front of Leipzig Film Festival sign](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013404/LHWebSitePic-160-246x300.jpg)
![Seated man talking, student listens](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013403/LHWebSitePic-159-300x196.jpg)
Leo lectures
![Seated man smiling](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013401/LHWebSitePic-158-300x197.jpg)
Leo at Steenbeck editing machine
![Man talking intently](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013400/LHWebSitePic-157-300x214.jpg)
leo interviewed in Milan
![Man points out landscape to Hurwitz and friend](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013359/LHWebSitePic-156-300x204.jpg)
![Man talking to woman, sea in background](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013358/LHWebSitePic-155-300x179.jpg)
![Two seated men talking with sea in background](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013356/LHWebSitePic-154-300x194.jpg)
![Man in profile on balcony](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013355/LHWebSitePic-153-300x216.jpg)
![Man talking to woman in apartment](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013354/LHWebSitePic-152-300x199.jpg)
Ingela Romare, Swedish filmmaker and psychoanalyst, published Leo's work on tape and DVD
![two men on street corner](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013353/LHWebSitePic-151-300x203.jpg)
![Man with goatee in front of windows](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013352/LHWebSitePic-150-196x300.jpg)
photo Jon Petrusson
![Man with goatee in profile](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013350/LHWebSitePic-149-300x202.jpg)
In the 1970's and 80's Leo traveled often to film communities, conferences and festivals in Europe, where his work was much more appreciated than in general in the US.
![Woman feeds man some cheese. In country](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013349/LHWebSitePic-148a-300x226.jpg)
Peg Lawson was Hurwitz's second wife and collaborator
![Profile of man](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013348/LHWebSitePic-148-300x197.jpg)
West End Avenue, New York
![Portrait of man intently listening](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013346/LHWebSitePic-147-300x240.jpg)
Photo 1970, Deborah Dickson.
![Man and woman in their 70's smile at young child](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013345/LHWebSitePic-146-300x207.jpg)
Leo, and his eldest sister, Liza, enjoy their grand niece, foreground.
![Man reads at coffee table](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013344/LHWebSitePic-145-300x197.jpg)
![Woman speaks at podium](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013342/LHWebSitePic-144-300x211.jpg)
Leo's older sister, Rosetta Hurwitz, psychoanalyst, at tribute dinner for her sister, Marie Briehl.
![Man and woman, elderly, pose for camera](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013341/LHWebSitePic-143-300x197.jpg)
Leo's older sister, Marie Briehl and her husband Walter Briehl MD, both psychoanalysts, at tribute dinner.
![Elderly woman speaks at podium](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013340/LHWebSitePic-142-300x195.jpg)
Leo's older sister, Marie Briehl, ground-breaking child psychoanalyst, at tribute dinner.
![Man poses for camera](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013339/LHWebSitePic-141-223x300.jpg)
Photo Jerry Liebling
![Man gestures, film reels and machine in foreground](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013338/LHWebSitePic-140-208x300.jpg)
Leo explaining, seated at his Moviola editing machine
![Smiling woman looks at fingernails](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013336/LHWebSitePic-139-226x300.jpg)
Hurwitz's second wife and collaborator, Peg Lawson. Still from Dialogue with a Woman Departed
![Woman with scarf in profile](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013335/LHWebSitePic-138-251x300.jpg)
Hurwitz's second wife and collaborator, Peg Lawson. Still from Dialogue with a Woman Departed
![Woman with scarf in profile](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013333/LHWebSitePic-137-203x300.jpg)
Hurwitz's second wife and collaborator, Peg Lawson. Still from Dialogue with a Woman Departed
![Reclining woman talks on phone](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013331/LHWebSitePic-136-300x234.jpg)
Leo's second wife, great film editor, Peg Lawson, subject of Dialogue with a Woman Departed.
![two men, backs to camera, film painting](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013330/LHWebSitePic-135-300x213.jpg)
Leo and Manny Kirchheimer film Discovery in a Painting. Production still. Kirchheimer finished the film in 2016
![Man in profile](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013329/LHWebSitePic-134-300x201.jpg)
![Two men filming with 16mm movie camera](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013327/LHWebSitePic-133-300x233.jpg)
Hurwitz films with wide angle lens. Production still, The Big Deep for Standard Oil
![Man in profile gestures](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013326/LHWebSitePic-132-300x192.jpg)
Leo directing The Big Deep for Standard Oil
![Man gestures, talking](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013325/LHWebSitePic-131-200x300.jpg)
Leo at his favorite spot at his dining table, at home on West End Avenue, New York
![Two men work with 16mm film and editing machine](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013323/LHWebSitePic-130-300x245.jpg)
Editing In Search Of Hart Crane
![Two men in profile look intently](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013320/LHWebSitePic-129-300x196.jpg)
Leo and Manny Kirchheimer on the set of In Search of Hart Crane, WNET
![Portrait of man in tie and jacket](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013319/LHWebSitePic-128-197x300.jpg)
![Man plays organ](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013318/LHWebSitePic-127-300x197.jpg)
Richard Lippold plays the organ, production still, The Sun and Richard Lippold
![Two men look up, one behind a movie camera](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013317/LHWebSitePic-126-300x207.jpg)
Leo sets a shot with second cameraman, D'Arcy Marsh (looking up) on Essay On Death
![](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013314/LHWebSitePic-125-300x208.jpg)
Manny Kirchheimer, cinematographer, lines up a shot with Hurwitz on the set of Essay On Death
![Two men work filming child](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013312/LHWebSitePic-124-300x207.jpg)
Filming Essay On Death with Gabriel Kirchheimer in bed
![Leo Hurwitz directs actor James Broderick, Essay On Death](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013310/LHWebSitePic-123-300x207.jpg)
Leo Hurwitz directs actor James Broderick on the set of Essay On Death
![Man talks to two actors in foreground](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013308/LHWebSitePic-122-300x208.jpg)
Leo directs actors, Allen Markey and James Broderick on the set of Essay on Death
![Two men wait for woman to check a shot](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013307/LHWebSitePic-121-300x209.jpg)
Peg Lawson, editor, looks at shot on the set of Essay On Death
![Two men, backs to camera film with camera](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013304/LHWebSitePic-120-300x206.jpg)
Leo and 2nd cameraman, D'Arcy Marsh on the set of Essay on Death
![Man directs as two crew members listen](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013302/LHWebSitePic-118-300x208.jpg)
Hurwitz explains a shot to camera assistant, Peter Eliscu and 2nd cameraman D'Arcy Marsh. Production still, Essay on Death
![Two men at cameras, a third looks away](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013300/LHWebSitePic-117-300x206.jpg)
Hurwitz sets up a shot. Production still, Essay on Death
![](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013257/LHWebSitePic-116-300x206.jpg)
Production still, Essay on Death, Leo sets a low shot
![10yo boy sits in corner of a quarry and yells for echo](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013255/LHWebSitePic-115-203x300.jpg)
Essay On Death, production still,
![Man eats a sandwich outside](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013254/LHWebSitePic-114-197x300.jpg)
Leo Hurwitz on the set of Essay on Death
![Profile of man in his 50's](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013253/LHWebSitePic-113-197x300.jpg)
![Tugboat bumper](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013252/LHWebSitePic-112-300x200.jpg)
Here at the Water's Edge, production still, Photo Charles Pratt
![Sun sets on Staten Island Ferry](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013249/LHWebSitePic-110-300x198.jpg)
Here at the Water's Edge production still, photo by Charles Pratt
![Tug and barge](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013248/LHWebSitePic-109-300x200.jpg)
Here at the Water's Edge production still, photo by Charles Pratt
![Man with cigarette gestures](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013247/LHWebSitePic-108-300x198.jpg)
Leo at his favorite spot at his dining table, home on West End Avenue, New York
![TV control room crew at work](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013246/LHWebSitePic-107-e1587060693751-300x282.jpg)
The control room of the television coverage of the Eichmann Trial in Jerusalem. Leo, the director, is center with dark shirt. Milton Fruchtman, the producer, is standing.
![Passport photos](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013244/LHWebSitePic-106-300x199.jpg)
Passport photos for Leo's trip to Israel to direct the television of the Eichmann Trial. He had been denied a passport previously for 10 years for political reasons.
![Jail cell with Inset, Nazi's march](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013243/LHWebSitePic-105-300x200.jpg)
![Trainers brief boxer](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013242/LHWebSitePic-104-300x200.jpg)
Trainers give instructions to Ray Drake,
![Two boxers in ring](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013241/LHWebSitePic-103-300x200.jpg)
Ray Drake wins his fight
![Nazi brown shirts ride in open truck through Berlin](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013241/LHWebSitePic-101-300x200.jpg)
Brown shirts terrorize the streets of Berlin
![AntiSemitic Cartoon from Germany](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013241/LHWebSitePic-102-300x200.jpg)
Nazi antiSemitic cartoon by Streicher
![Jewish doctor is humiliated](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013240/LHWebSitePic-100-300x200.jpg)
Jewish doctor is led through the streets of Berlin
![Nazi brown shirt holds flags](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013240/LHWebSitePic-99-300x200.jpg)
Brown shirts demonstrating in Berlin
![Pilot in cockpit](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013239/LHWebSitePic-98-300x200.jpg)
African American pilot comes in for a landing
![Man at desk](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013238/LHWebSitePic-97-300x224.jpg)
As head of News and Public Affairs, Hurwitz was central to the invention of live television production in the nascent network
![Man in suit](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013237/LHWebSitePic-96-300x251.jpg)
Hurwitz at the opening of Native Land
![group of mourners around fresh grave](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013235/LHWebSitePic-95-300x225.jpg)
The funeral group including Virginia Stevens. Whitey has just been buried, photo Marion Michelle
![Woman mourner with other women and child](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013233/LHWebSitePic-94-300x223.jpg)
Whitie's wife (Virginia Stevens) loses it at the funeral, photo Marion Michelle
![Two mourners at funeral](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013232/LHWebSitePic-93-300x235.jpg)
"We don't forget that... never!" The funeral group, photo Marion Michelle
![Mourners](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013231/LHWebSitePic-92-300x233.jpg)
The funeral, photo Marion Michelle
![Three mourners](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013229/LHWebSitePic-91-300x232.jpg)
"We don't forget that... never!" Clancy Cooper, eulogist at left,, photo Marion Michelle
![Portrait of man](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013228/LHWebSitePic-90-300x225.jpg)
Clancy Cooper, eulogist, funeral scene, photo Marion Michelle
![Portrait of old man](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013227/LHWebSitePic-89-233x300.jpg)
One of the funeral group, photo Marion Michelle
![Mother holding daughter](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013226/LHWebSitePic-88-300x228.jpg)
Virginia Stevens in the funeral group, photo Marion Michelle
![Profile of man](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013224/LHWebSitePic-87-300x243.jpg)
Member of the funeral group , photo Marion Michelle
![Two women mourners](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013223/LHWebSitePic-86-300x230.jpg)
Members of the funeral group, photo Marion Michelle
![Woman mourner and child](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013222/LHWebSitePic-85-206x300.jpg)
Whitey's widow (Virginia Stevens) and his child at his grave site, photo Marion Michelle
![Four adults and child at grave](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013220/LHWebSitePic-84-300x236.jpg)
Whitey's wife (Virginia Stevens), and their friends. "We don't forget that, never", photo Marion Michelle
![Man held by hooded figures](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013218/LHWebSitePic-82-300x252.jpg)
Anti-Klan activist is taken. by Klu Kluxers
![Hooded fiture with torch](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013217/LHWebSitePic-81-250x300.jpg)
Klansman prepares to tar and feather anti-racism activist
![Man in suit gives envelope to man in jeans](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013216/LHWebSitePic-80-300x252.jpg)
Harry Carlisle (Art Smith) gets paid by agent (Richard Bishop) for his spying.
![Man smiles diabolically](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013215/LHWebSitePic-79-225x300.jpg)
Production still. A spy-master (possibly Bert Conway) who helps trap Harry Carlisle, the labor spy in Native Land
![Three men in office](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013214/LHWebSitePic-78-253x300.jpg)
Jim walks in on meeting of Harry, the labor spy, and company spymaster (from left) Richard Bishop, Art Smith, Howard DaSilva
![Bandaged man in bed](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013213/LHWebSitePic-77-300x248.jpg)
Harry Carlisle (Art Smith) with phony injuries
![Heroic portrait of group of workers](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013212/LHWebSitePic-76-300x207.jpg)
Workers at union meeting when spy is "discovered"
![Group of angry union members](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013210/LHWebSitePic-75-300x194.jpg)
Angry workers after Jim (Howard DaSilva) has just been "exposed" as a spy.
![Man walks between two lines of angry men](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013209/LHWebSitePic-74-300x254.jpg)
Jim (Howard DaSilva), a plant, at union meeting after having been "exposed" as a labor spy
![Man, walking toward camera, is stopped by another](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013208/LHWebSitePic-73-300x210.jpg)
Jim (Howard DaSilva) decoy spy is uncovered in union meeting
![Black man in pain](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013207/LHWebSitePic-72-300x223.jpg)
The black sharecropper (Louis Grant) is shot. Sharecropper scene
![Two men with guns run out of a small church](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013205/LHWebSitePic-71-300x254.jpg)
Vigilantes breaking up a meeting of sharecroppers
![Dead body by a railroad track](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013204/LHWebSitePic-70-300x238.jpg)
A union organizer is murdered
![Shocked teenage girl](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013203/LHWebSitePic-69-226x300.jpg)
The window cleaning girl (Amelia Romano), finding the dead union organizer, photo Marion Michelle
![Shocked teenage girl](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013201/LHWebSitePic-68-231x300.jpg)
the window washing girl (Amelia Romano) finding the dead union organizer, photo Marion Michelle
![Girl on stairs](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013200/LHWebSitePic-67-229x300.jpg)
the window scubber (Amelia Romano), on her way to find the dead union organizer, photo Marion Michelle
![](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013159/LHWebSitePic-66-224x300.jpg)
the window scubber (Amelia Romano), on her way to find the dead union organizer, photo Marion Michelle
![](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013158/LHWebSitePic-65-300x232.jpg)
Window washing girl (Amelia Romano) at work, photo Marion Michelle
![Woman yelling](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013156/LHWebSitePic-64-260x300.jpg)
Wife (Mary George) of the farmer who spoke up at the Grange meeting calls for him, before finding his body.
![Statue of Liberty](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013155/LHWebSitePic-63-300x200.jpg)
![Forest](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013154/LHWebSitePic-61-300x200.jpg)
![Men pull together](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013154/LHWebSitePic-62-300x200.jpg)
![Misty hills](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013153/LHWebSitePic-59-300x200.jpg)
![Smoke stacks](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013154/LHWebSitePic-60-300x200.jpg)
![Church steeple](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013152/LHWebSitePic-57-300x200.jpg)
![Waves on rocks](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013152/LHWebSitePic-58-300x200.jpg)
![Column](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013151/LHWebSitePic-56-300x200.jpg)
![Three members of movie crew and camera](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013150/LHWebSitePic-55-300x225.jpg)
Paul Strand is left, Hurwitz directs. Set of Native Land
![Film crew and cops](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013149/LHWebSitePic-54-300x226.jpg)
Filming girl cleaning window scene, Paul Strand is third from left, Hurwitz is far right, photo Marion Michelle
![Camera, two camera crew, farmer with plow](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013146/LHWebSitePic-53-300x275.jpg)
Set of farmer scene. Strand is behind camera, Hurwitz is setting the plow, Fred Johnson is farmer
![](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013142/LHWebSitePic-51-300x228.jpg)
Leo at the time of the opening of Native Land
![Men with rifles march](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013141/LHWebSitePic-50-300x200.jpg)
Loyalist Troops. Spanish Civil War
![Frames from a film show two men](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013130/LHWebSitePic-44-142x300.jpg)
Elia "Gadget" Kazan worked closely with Hurwitz at Frontier Films, then named him before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities and bought a full page ad in the NY Times to explain why.
![Frames from a film](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013128/LHWebSitePic-43-148x300.jpg)
Elia "Gadget" Kazan worked closely with Hurwitz at Frontier Films, then named him before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities and bought a full page ad in the NY Times to explain why.
![Frames from a film, two men](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013127/LHWebSitePic-42-160x300.jpg)
Elia "Gadget" Kazan worked closely with Hurwitz at Frontier Films, then named him before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities and bought a full page ad in the NY Times to explain why.
![Portrait of Hurwitz](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013126/LHWebSitePic-41-231x300.jpg)
![Dramatic portrait of Hurwitz](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013124/LHWebSitePic-40-300x215.jpg)
Hurwitz in Pie in the Sky, during the NYKINO period.
![Group of men, some film](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013122/LHWebSitePic-39-210x300.jpg)
Hurwitz is at far left behind camera.
![Group of young adults on beach](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013119/LHWebSitePic-38-300x197.jpg)
Photo by Hurwitz of his housemates on vacation, From left, Max Blatt, Sophie Maslow, Sidney Meyers, Edna Ocko, Jane Dudley
![Portrait of woman in bathing suit](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013118/LHWebSitePic-37-300x196.jpg)
photo by Hurwitz
![Woman on beach](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013117/LHWebSitePic-36-300x189.jpg)
Photo by Hurwitz
![Bare chested man seated](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013115/LHWebSitePic-35-300x190.jpg)
Leo and Jane's close friend, married to Sophie Maslow. Photo by Hurwitz
![](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013103/LHWebSitePic-27-214x300.jpg)
![Smiling woman](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013100/LHWebSitePic-24-280x300.jpg)
photo by Hurwitz
![Frowning woman](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013058/LHWebSitePic-23-252x300.jpg)
Photo by Hurwitz
![](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013055/LHWebSitePic-21-300x197.jpg)
Photo by Hurwitz
![Woman in dance costume](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013054/LHWebSitePic-20-218x300.jpg)
photo by Hurwitz
![Young woman dancing](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013050/LHWebSitePic-18-253x300.jpg)
Dancing in pre-Martha Graham choreography
![Two dancers on rooftop](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013048/LHWebSitePic-17-300x250.jpg)
Leo's wife, Jane Dudley danced with Hanya Holm and then Martha Graham in these years
![Dancer on NYC roof](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013046/LHWebSitePic-16-300x207.jpg)
Photo by Hurwitz
![Two boys stare out of car window](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013043/LHWebSitePic-14-300x256.jpg)
![Horse and carriage](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013042/LHWebSitePic-13-207x300.jpg)
![Factory buildings, NYC](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013041/LHWebSitePic-12-300x236.jpg)
![Old man at chess board](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013038/LHWebSitePic-10-228x300.jpg)
Leo's father. Photo by Hurwitz
![Man and woman pose by bridge](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013037/LHWebSitePic-9-300x184.jpg)
Leo's Parents attend his garduation from Harvard. Perhaps their first trip to Cambridge/Boston
![elderly couple sit at table](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013036/LHWebSitePic-8-300x222.jpg)
Leo's Parents
![Man in academic gown](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013034/LHWebSitePic-7-192x300.jpg)
Leo graduates Harvard College
![Young man](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013033/LHWebSitePic-6-214x300.jpg)
![Two boys and a caught fish](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013031/LHWebSitePic-5-300x211.jpg)
Leo Hurwitz (right) and friend... and fish.
![5 kids of different ages pose in front of house](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013029/LHWebSitePic-4-300x175.jpg)
Hurwitz's older brother and sisters, from left: Elizabeth, Rosetta, William, Marie, Sophia Hurwitz (girls in coats sewn by their mother).
![Little boy holds on to door](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013028/LHWebSitePic-3-186x300.jpg)
Leo, at 4, at the door of the family apartment house on Keap Street.
![Old fashioned portrait of family](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013025/LHWebSitePic-2-300x239.jpg)
Leo's family about a year before he was born. (l-r back row) Rosetta, Chava (mother), William, Solomon (father), Elizabeth, (l-r front) Peter, Sophia, Eleanore, Marie
![Old fashioned family group](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013023/LHWebSitePic-1-300x238.jpg)
In this group is Abraham Katcher (center), his daughter Chava Katcher Hurwitz (to right), her husband (Solomon Hurwitz (far right), her brother, Moiseye (standing behind them) - their children from left, Elizabeth, Marie and William. Other adults are Katcher sisters, one husband and son.
![Two men smiling](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013021/Langston-Hughes-and-Edwin-R-300x198.jpg)
Rolfe, just returned from fighting in Spain, was Leo's closest friend at the time
![Three men pose holding cameras](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013020/HerberKlineRightinSpain-300x300.jpg)
Kline and Karpathy filmed Heart of Spain
![Man in uniform](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/leohurwitz/app/uploads/2020/02/25013017/EdwinRolfe-227x300.jpg)