Editing Reds (film) (section)

====The Witnesses====
To gain perspective on the lives of Reed and Bryant, Beatty filmed interviews with a group of men and women, referred to only as "The Witnesses", as early as 1971. ''American Film'' identified the witnesses in its March 1982 issue.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Newsreel: Who ''Were'' Those Eyewitnesses in ''Reds''?|journal=American Film|date=March 1982|page=8}}</ref>

In a capsule review for ''The New York Times'', film critic [[Vincent Canby]] refers to them as "more than two dozen very, very old people, billed only as The Witnesses, whom Mr. Beatty interviewed about the Reeds and their long-gone times." He went on to say, "More than anything else in ''Reds,'' these interviews give the film its poignant point of view and separate it from all other romantic adventure films ever made."<ref>{{cite web | last=Canby | first=Vincent | title=For American Movies, a Minor Renaissance | work=[[The New York Times]] | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/27/movies/film-view-for-american-movies-a-minor-renaissance.html | date=December 27, 1981 | access-date=November 23, 2016}}</ref> "The most evocative aspect of the presentation is a documentary enhancement – interviews with a number of venerable 'witnesses,' whose recollections of the period help to set the scene, bridge transitions and preserve a touching human perspective", wrote Gary Arnold of ''[[The Washington Post]]''.<ref>{{cite news | last=Arnold | first=Gary | title='Reds': The Passions of John Reed; A Film Adrift in the Maelstrom of History | date=December 4, 1981 | newspaper=The Washington Post | location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref>

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* Jacob Bailin, labor organizer
* [[Roger Nash Baldwin]], founder, [[American Civil Liberties Union]]
* John Ballato, early socialist
* Harry Carlisle, writer, teacher
* Kenneth Chamberlain, political cartoonist for ''[[The Masses]]''
* [[Andrew Dasburg]], painter
* Tess Davis, cousin of Louise Bryant's first husband
* [[Will Durant]], historian
* Blanche Hays Fagen, member of the Provincetown Players
* [[Hamilton Fish III|Hamilton Fish]], congressman, Harvard classmate of John Reed
* [[Dorothy Frooks]], recruiting girl, World War I
* [[Hugo Gellert]], artist for ''[[The Masses]]''
* Emmanuel Herbert, student in Petrograd, 1917–1918
* [[George Jessel (actor)|George Jessel]], entertainer
* [[Oleg Kerensky]], son of [[Alexander Kerensky]]
* [[Isaac Don Levine]], journalist, translator for Reed
* [[Arthur Mayer]], film historian, Harvard classmate of Reed, also film distributor
* [[Henry Miller]], novelist
* Adele Nathan, member of the Provincetown Players
* [[Scott Nearing]], sociologist, pacifist
* [[Dora Russell]], delegate to [[Comintern]]
* [[George Seldes]], U.S. journalist in Moscow
* Art Shields, political activist
* [[Jessica Smith (editor)|Jessica Smith]], political activist
* [[Lucita Squier]], screenwriter and widow of [[Albert Rhys Williams]], who was an American participant in the Russian Revolution, pro-Soviet author, friend and biographer of Lenin
* [[Adela Rogers St. Johns]], journalist
* [[Arne Swabeck]], member, Communist Labor Party
* Bernadine Szold-Fritz, journalist
* Galina von Meck, witness to Russian Revolution
* Heaton Vorse, son of a Provincetown playwright
* [[William Weinstone|Will Weinstone]], organizer, U.S. Communist Party
* [[Rebecca West]], writer, novelist
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