Sad Song of Yellow Skin

Sad Song of Yellow Skin

Rejissyor: National Film Board of Canada. color Playing time: 30 min., 38 sec. -------------- “Written, directed and spoken by Michael Rubbo” Produced by Tom Daly -------------- technical credits at end ----------- For more information on this film, see Wikipedia viewed Aug. 30, 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Song_of_Yellow_Skin Excerpt from page: Sad Song of Yellow Skin is a 1970 direct cinema-style documentary film on the effects of the Vietnam War on street children in Saigon. The 58-minute documentary was written, directed and narrated by Michael Rubbo and produced by Tom Daly for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). ----------------- Don Luce and Kevin Byrne [?] talk about reactions of Vietnamese to Americans; Vietnamese people in bar with American television news in the background with Richard Nixon and “comedy”: weather girl making fun of “weather” in Vietnam; Michael Rubbo talks in English with scenes of Vietnamese daily life and musical interludes; Byrne [?] talks in Vietnamese to “bar girls“ (prostitutes); Tran [---] talks in English about death of bar girl, funeral follows; Rubbo talks in English about Vietnamese Buddhist religious rituals and practices topics mentioned: Vietnam War; American GI’s; prostitution; opium; NLF (National Liberation Front); Catholicism; Buddhism; Taoism

https://archive.org/details/MotionPicture0030 · Public domain (Internet Archive)