Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 428

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
NO OTHER COPY LOCATED (MILITARY--VIETNAM.) GLASER, MILTON. No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger. Film poster, 35x22 inches; creases where folded, with a slightly faded spot at the top blank corner. Np, United States National Student Association, [1968]
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a striking poster created to promote david loeb weiss's film, winner of the first prize at the mannheim film festival. "No Vietnamese Ever Call Me Nigger" was a documentary addressing the plight of inner city blacks and how the war in Viet Nam and the draft had affected them. The film was screened for the most part on college campuses and smaller "art theatres" and there couldn't have been very many posters printed. The title, said to be a quote from Muhammad Ali, can be seen in the film on the placards carried by marchers in the 1967 Harlem Fall Mobilisation March, an anti-Vietnam-War procession through New York City's Harlem. Weiss and his crew shot this film with a 16mm camera and a reel-to-reel sound recorder. The result was a shockingly frank, first hand report of what African-Americans thought of the U.S. government's war on the Vietnamese people, and the African-Americans role in that war. The message was clear: "This is not our war." No records at auction or locations in OCLC.