The last film produced by John Ford, locked away in a vault for 27 years, is now available online. Production of the film, commissioned by the United States government in support of the war in Vietnam, began after the Tet Offensive in 1968, but by the time it was complete in 1971 foreign policy had "shifted" and "Vietnam! Vietnam!" was no longer politically convenient.
Thanks to Eric Spiegelman, who pulled the ancient reels from the National Archives and had them digitized, this "little piece of American history that very few people have seen, and for that reason alone it belongs on the Internet".
A Review of Manuel De Landa, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History New York: Zone Books, 1997.
by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
(From electronic book review, Jan 1, 1999)
