the document then, is no longer for history, an inert material through which it tries to reconstitue what men have done or said, the events of which only the trace remains, history is now trying to define within the documentary itself: unities, totalties, seires, relations...

uncle michel arch. of knowledge 7

three tv specials to research
1965 Xmas in Vietnam
1965 Why Vietnam (pentagon funded)
66-7 The Anderson Platoon
1966, released 1968 A Tale of War

Other Film to Researsch:
Marxist Film, cofinanced by East Germany, Cuba, and other satilete states called In the Year of the Pig, 1969
Nick MacDonald The Liberal WAr 1972

qoutes:
...the dissoultion of meaning iton labrythine, ironic jargon, facilated the army's and the adminstration;s use of the public war as non-ideological, as an apolitcal humane response to ideolgocially motivated agression...
244

(LBJ) argued on film that vietnam was a defenisve war, the US Was "simply helping a free people to defend their soverignty" against (HCM) and his plans for a "reign of terror" (245)

Felix Greenes Inside North Vietnam is a case in point, altough CBS sponsored it, and sup[plied greene with stock and labtraory services, in return for an option, it deemed the film unshowable. Even Walter Cronkites celebrated expression of resevrations about the warm his vision in Feb 68 reflected the shift in majoirtiy opinon that had happened 7 months before...
(246)

In the year of the Pig...the clear visbilty of ABC's micorphones in interviewes with soilders lays bare the super impositon of station advertisings...osteanbily objective
251

From David E James: Documentating the Vietnam War, Hanoi to Hollywood: VEittnam WAr in American Film (Ed Dittmer/Michlod), Rutgers 239-253

Notes:
Presence of Vietcong Films
Marxist Film, cofinanced by East Germany, Cuba, and other satilete states called In the Year of the Pig, 1969