Sons and Daughters

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Sons and Daughters

Sons and Daughters
Jerry Stoll
Retrospective: Un-American Activities
Documentary Film
USA
1967
108 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None
No Premiere

Jerry Stoll follows the preparation and organisation of Vietnam Day, a peaceful protest march from the University of California’s campus in Berkeley to the Oakland Army Terminal, one of the US Army’s major supply ports for the war in Vietnam. The vibrant, carefully photographed film makes the short phase tangible in which the US public was still largely unaware of what was going on in Vietnam and when the shock at the first images and witness reports was just beginning to dawn. While “Sons and Daughters” became a powerful tool of mobilisation at the time, not even its exclusive soundtrack featuring songs by The Grateful Dead, Jon Hendricks and Virgil Gonsalves could prevent it from sinking more or less into oblivion.


Tobias Hering, Tilman Schumacher

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Director
Jerry Stoll
Cinematographer
Stephen Lighthill
Editor
Sally Pugh, Jerry Stoll, Stephen Lighthill
Producer
American Documentary Films
Score
Virgil Gonsalves, Jon Hendricks

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Steven K. Hill
skhill@cinema.ucla.edu