Stranger with a Camera

"Stranger with a Camera" By Elizabeth Barret is a video about a filmmaker named Hugh O'Connor and the man who killed him named Hobart Ison. The film started out slow and was kind of confusing at the beginning but everything tied together at the end. Hugh O'Connor was a Canadian filmmaker. He traveled all over his daughter claims, filming children and adults in different communities. O'Connor once filmed a 10 year old girl, and showed her how to use the camera; he even gave her a few of the pictures. In his daughters eyes i can infer that she saw him as a great man. By what she says I agree and I do not think that he should have died. Hobart Ison was a man who owned a lot of land. He never wanted anyone on his land, it was his and he especially didn't want any camera people are it. One day Hugh O'Connor and some of his staff were drove by a house on Ison's land, there was a man named Mason Eldridge at the house along with his children. A woman, who saw Hugh and his crew filming on Ison's land, reported it to Ison. Ison came rushing to the area where they were. He had a gun he shot it a few times and told them to get off of his land. As they were being rushed to leave Hugh turned around to say that they were leaving, when Hobart Ison shot his gun right in Hugh's chest. He was dead, Hobart was put on trial, he was sentenced to 10 years of jail but after one he was given parole. Hobart Ison believe that Hugh O'Connor deserved what he got, Hobart was only trying to protect his land. "Land meant more to Hobart than money" one of his relatives explained in the film. Film makers wanted to film Appalachia to show the poverty in Kentucky, but the community there did not want to be put on the spot light.