In 1973 independent filmmaker Emile de Antonio discussed his films, Point of Order, Rush to Judgement, In the Year of the Pig and Millhouse: A White Comedy in the studios of WCVB-TV Boston with Robert Gardner. Emile de Antonio (1919-1989), was one of America's most influential political and avant-garde filmmakers, started making documentary films in the mid-1960s, his work received wide success in theatrical release. His often-controversial films focused on the United States during the Cold War and sharply criticized American institutions and government officials. Films focusing on Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, and the Vietnam War led to de Antonio's becoming the object of FBI surveillance. De Antonio was also involved with the New York art world of the 1960s, which he documented in Painters Painting. Along with visual anthropologist Edmund Carpenter, he appeared on the television program Screening Room in June of 1973 to screen and discuss excerpts from his films.