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America. Alistair Cooke's excellent but over-touted documentary series. Tonight: Watch the Native Americans whup Custer. Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 1/2 hour...
...dialogue album is generally less successful. Segments are often too short. One is just getting into, say, The Sea Wolf only to be jerked rudely on to They Died with Their Boots On. Worse, that picture is represented not by its great scene-Custer's farewell to his wife -but by a battle sequence that does not have much meaning without director Raoul Walsh's superb imagery. However, films that depended on snappy cross talk for their best effects-Casablanca and The Big Sleep, for example-survive nicely as snippets of sound. In any case it seems graceless...
...partying existed. Then came the great westward expansion and as more institutions of higher learning sprouted up, more nicknames were invented: Indians, Bulldogs, Lions, Tigers, Bears, Bobcats, Bearcats, and as the line of civilization moved west, Bison, Buffalo, Pumas and Losers. The Losers was the nickname Custer's soldiers, unlucky miners, and the Pony Express...
EARLY IN 1861, when the Civil War was very new, Matthew Brady photographed George Armstrong Custer seated with a Confederate prisoner, Lieutenant J.B. Washington, who had been a friend and classmate of Custer at West Point. The picture, for Brady, perfectly illustrated the fratricidal aspects...
...Indians, the last hurrah came on this desolate reservation at a creek known as Wounded Knee. The Pine Ridge reservation was only a year old when the U.S. seventh cavalry, Custer's former outfit, slaughtered 200 Indian men, women, and children, in what came to be known as the last battle of the Indian wars...