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Film Description
Language of Faces (1961)
Sponsor: American Friends Service Committee. Production Co.: Unknown. Director/Producer: John Korty. Music: Teiji Ito. Narrator: Meredith Dallas. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 16 minutes.
Pacifist plea sponsored by a Quaker group. To a voice-over commentary describing the arms race, Language of Faces presents a montage of human faces and activities that culminates in a silent vigil at the Pentagon.
Note: John Korty also made The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Teiji Ito, husband of Maya Deren, composed the score for Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon.
Resources
Howard Thompson, “New Fare in the 16mm Film Marts,” New York Times, June 4, 1961, X7.