The Hoy Boys | movie | 2019 | Official Trailer
Twin brother photojournalists lead us back to a pre-digital era, when Americans read newspapers and facts mattered. | dG1fdFNfX05wTFhJeXc
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:17 The whole thing started when my father passed away,
00:20 and we really looked back over his photographs.
00:26 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:35 It was a good time to be a photojournalist,
00:37 and it was maybe before the hypercredential
00:42 had completely taken over the media.
00:44 Not a one in a pick a number chance
00:47 that anybody's going to go from high school
00:49 to a major newspaper, but for these two brothers, these twins,
00:54 to do it at the same time defies all odds.
00:57 It really was not unusual for you
01:00 to see a shot by Hoy in the morning
01:03 and a shot by Hoy at night.
01:06 Then there's the personal part, how they were twins,
01:09 how they were different.
01:10 Frank might have been more of a perfectionist in some ways,
01:16 whereas Tom wouldn't sacrifice the good
01:20 in search of the perfect.
01:21 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:34 The Evening Star was a legendarily fun place to work.
01:37 Everything I know about journalism
01:38 I learned at the Star.
01:39 The basic repertorial notions, as well as
01:42 the possibilities of journalism, opened up at the Star.
01:46 We really had this notion at the Star
01:49 of you wanted the best obtainable version of the truth.
01:53 That meant you saw lots of sources.
01:55 And I remember at the time also caring deeply
01:59 about whether I was being fair and whether I was capturing
02:03 both sides of an issue, all these things that have now
02:05 been cliched and discredited.
02:07 Let me tell you about the Hoy boys, young guys
02:10 in Washington, DC, beginning photographers.
02:14 Working class Irish kids who went
02:17 to work at two big, well-known newspapers
02:21 in the nation's capital.
02:22 It was a package.
02:23 They were a package.
02:25 They were the Hoy boys.
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02:37 [Music]