{"id":13685,"date":"2011-12-06T05:35:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T05:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13685"},"modified":"2011-12-06T05:35:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T05:35:01","slug":"the-american-west-of-john-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/12\/06\/the-american-west-of-john-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"The American West of John Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-American-West-of-John-Ford.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13686\" title=\"The American West of John Ford\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-American-West-of-John-Ford.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 1971 documentary on the westerns of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Ford\">John Ford<\/a> provides a fascinating insight into the director and his work.<\/p>\n<p>Filled with clips from his work, it also contains interviews with colleagues such as John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda and Andy Devine.<\/p>\n<p>It was filmed just two years before he died in 1973 and the tone is somewhat elegiac, as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_(genre)\">the Western<\/a> was dying as a genre along with the old studio system.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rXCV9iH_2fY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I love the formal way in which Wayne, Stewart and Fonda address the camera and share stories with their old director (Wayne calls Ford &#8220;Pappy&#8221;) along with expensive helicopter shots of the landscape he made famous.<\/p>\n<p>Also note that it is screened in the 16:9 aspect ratio, which seems unusual for the TV of the time but was presumably so they could capture the widescreen images of his films.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; Find out more about John Ford at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Ford\">Wikipedia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mubi.com\/cast_members\/8448\">MUBi<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sensesofcinema.com\/2002\/great-directors\/ford\/\">Senses of Cinema essay on John Ford<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1971 documentary on the westerns of John Ford provides a fascinating insight into the director and his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16],"tags":[2362,2361,1507,2360],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}