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CONFIDENTIAL
Bxgerpts from the criginal letter proposing the film:.
1.MILE de ANTONIO
You: publie.it.on (l'rairin Fire) is very yood. Howaver,.
..ar f cnnections. Prirt simply doesn't reneh the
l o pcple th t a well-mace film can leach. Your out-
goag gosture in th: publication is not only rirst rate but
tould bc: t.s: beginninq of tho recognition that there can and
. exis: t.! he .cft differcnt kinds of people who serve
Hitfer
.unctions, some who <an nove openly, some
...
Filn. oi Ty lrngth to reacl. milliors'of people.
y icassble to nake such. film. The film
.'...j hav.: five or six spcakers.
Lach speaker
... & swgnent or maior theme of the publication.
Why did vou happen and what is your history?
Ac..., hiainy out aid functicning in the usA over
Yare.
Sn. woice siculd be about where you are now
.mn't w.n phy:ieally but politically... it should be didactic
j1: tls: tiui.ie th.tt ic should cpen eyes and point directions for
Cth.r: ....u: compromising you. I do chink one voi:s snould.
r1k
in:laticn... the Film should .lso discuss violonce,
. kinds.whose violence? against whom? you
ut't: .ot astors and yee the film should rave cnough excitement
: people looking at it would want to identify ar.d
..ut. undergrounds of the past.
'hur cxists not only not enouyh information about you
ir: 4 ...rent wuy related to actions but even more important
in..
ttit: spirit of the 60s is dying. There exists a
et .rsiy ard programmatic vacuum. The poople have nct. :et.
'thnd thnt rord is worse than Nixon becausc the good yt:
Mg!sst wnemselves that need to be brought to people. I
rso:lly think thc situation riqht now when most people
60s.
wo are a police state. Our Ty denonstrates this
'.:y night, a corrupt police state and you people are
vinc, in it and out'of'it, you have crcated a masterstroke
:f political theatre which not only reveals the police state
but that it is possible to beat it, and it belongs on film..
d.
"Osawatomie", Autumn, l975, number 3, page 16.
CONE
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