The forgotten American

Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; Research, Maurice Berk ; reporters, Joseph Benti, Richard Threlkeld ; film cameramen, Tom McHenry, Eli Ressler ; film editors, Bernard Altman, Imre Horvath, Richard Sarna ; director of graphic arts, Rudi Bass ; graphic artist, Robert Chapman.; A documentary about the American Indian filmed on location in the Southwest and in the urban Indian communities of Los Angeles and Chicago. Describes the minimal food and housing, inadequate educational facilities, and limited employment opportunities of the American Indian as well as his loss of identity and self-respect, both as an individual and as a member of a vanishing and irreplaceable American culture. Includes commentaries by Stewart L. Udall, Bob Davis, and Leo Haven; interview and song by Buffy Sainte-Marie.; PFA 1612-01-5655. CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 2006/ 10/10; Fair condition; Agfa color print--essentially two colors--red and cyan (fading); some start up troubles