Unlicensed filmmaking drew police surveillance in Cold War New York

Evidence

Unlicensed filming was itself subversive. At one point, Mekas was prevented from shooting at the Fulton Fish Market—the police considered them too close to the naval base in New York Harbor. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 174

Categorization

• XREF: This connects to the reader’s core thesis about illegality as a material condition enabling invention — Griffin’s underground film scene was literally policed, which forged scene solidarity.