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William Faulkner

by: Ford Foundation. TV-Radio Workshop; I.Q. Films

Publication date: 1952

Topics: 16mm Film, Educational Film, Faulkner, William, 1897-1962

Publisher: Made by Robert Saudek Associates, Released by I.Q. Films

Digitizing sponsor: Internet Archive

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Originally telecast on the television program Omnibus

Producer, Robert Saudek

William Faulkner, among his lifetime neighbors in his home town of Oxford, Miss., speaks of the power and the will of man to choose right from wrong and his responsibility to see that "justice and truth and pity and compassion are done."

Addeddate: 2015-02-20 19:40:33

Boxid: IA1113019

Identifier: williamfaulknerfilm

Lccn: fia66001292

Oclc_id: 5232461

Ocr: If you look at a town is simply arithmetic one thousand and habit incident many four thousand not counting the university and all the lives and even a small town or too many to step down in a novel so a writer overlays one life with another delay become a mean many. As a writer gives timeless life to a few of the few so does history to the fuel of the fuel for what they've accomplished here in Oxford Lafayette County Mississippi we have a citizen who refers to himself as a farmer a farmer who also writes This is William Faulkner of Oxford Mississippi for his family is Old South and he's never been gone from Lafayette County for long yet the name of William Faulkner spread throughout the world as one of the greatest American writers of fiction today for his friends are the friends of his boyhood film moon Mullins lacked Reed filled stone I could rob it and what he writes about he is always known because it has been a part of his life for. It's been a step back and lead new police. But don't you my rendition is it so folks all over the car to read the book you write those who made both compare you big mana fall show is the careful your name is going to be no further than your face. Oh well when that happens I'll just send them back yet again to recommend for new or. Until after the honey suckle got all mixed up in it's the whole thing came to symbolize night and on wrists I seem to be lying to go to sleep no wait. Looking down alone Karabell Gray have liked well stable things have become shadowy paradoxical all I had done. South of. I know them for ten thousand nine hundred fifty it was announced some stock on that the Nobel Prize for literature had been awarded to William Faulkner Yeah well above it oppressed and Jackson all rights adequate amounts of one of the faults well I'll do the best I can to get a story about. Our bill not security just doesn't have a problem I think it's when I get out and see what I can do and I'll call you back. OK. It's. So you're going the trouble begins with the did you want to begin with them. It's. Look I don't see what my products like this out of the house my family has got to do with the Nobel Foundation sleeps Bill and I don't argue with you about anything at all over this world people are required to write out of the all that's good enough but you've got the Nobel Prize and people who read office would like to know something about where you thought I was going to the store and I'd like to do. All right do you still are but no picture. Well you left the high school player make a picture by golly yes but my daughter was out of that type of psychotic William Faulkner some of his friends a farmer would man a hunter to the world as a writer of wants American to receive the Nobel Prize for Excellence in literature the highest honor a writer can hope for personally presented to William Faulkner miking goose don't add all in stock room sweeps. That's. Back in Oxford the farmer who writes. Remembered the long years before he was on it or even known ten miles beyond his home town he remembered the friends who believed in him and you did build stone a lawyer who is William Faulkner the earliest critic and supporter. It's. The way. It's. Going to have a good. We designed the stones even got along with the new it's been about a know how you do that if that's true. Playoffs define and they'd like that we did a lot of the elephants. Asked me to write a speech for the paper. Family than free and for a generation I came back New Haven nine hundred fifteen you had this void and you wrote a lot more we had a tight everybody turned it down. The road with the new with the Elena didn't fail. And the sound and fury was a fire sale and as I lay dying which is another fire sale then we got the notion of you going off to England see if you can get recognition they are like from all around the area here that didn't work so well. Came back roads Thank you Larry. That puts things all I knew all the time you appoint great writer I knew I was betting on this you're saying but nobody else. Yet they couldn't read. So you have a reason to have to wear. A mask diagram is bleeding you do as a list I can read books. It's alright I don't have to say Thank You. All right. Elaine the common bring have. Perhaps I should say they have this I am about to say. Very likely. Have said what I have already said and I wouldn't have. Me. Getting to be old man now and perhaps someone who knows. One who knows that he is even greater as a man that had a ride on. My gear. For every move I had spent Adonis expression from. Rich. People made a very few. Is here if your friends. Don't act by Bill for I'm glad to see you back home we're so happy about the Great on this come to you feel slightly let you brought great honor to Oxford in the base County probably glad that you're going to keep on living at Oxford. By the way but I would have books of mine you lower yourself I'm happy to tell you all. The spam that they're bringing premium prices now as collector's items. Funny how things turn out. People may prosecutes you enter a value. To us. Why they. Have a good trip on Friday get back in time. We don't get the big time to. Get him so we don't give them the gun we will. Do it. For a break. Off. A lot of us talk about about about about gravity. Talk about cities like their. Brand. She's cute. Crucify you. With the they are allowed some even carry your cross up the hill. On involvement. Brownstones now on you can get down then take those folks home. I've got to stop the town. We need ten spoof. On the what your school starts. Next week. Well will we have to let told me go with that means last. Cycle. Well I've. Last. Lay that not all get solved. It's come on Jim little into it you know you anyway. Matter is all over for all of that Paul wrote on ago I can sense. That's. What. I've. Got my diploma Thank your for your graduation this. Month but what threatens us today is still not that I'm bomb not even sell this because at the bone fell on Oxford tonight all it could do would be to kill us. Which is nothing since in doing that it would have robbed itself of its own Apollo blood which is still there but being afraid of this. I would danger is not that our dangers in the forces in the world today for just trying to use Mansi had to rob him of that individual oddity is so trying to reduce him to and I'm thinking that bribery. Giving him free food which is not earning season valueless money but he had not looked for that is what we must resist if we had to. Change the world of cement peace and security is not meant in the mass who can and will save men it is mad himself created in the image of God so that he shall have the power and the will to cues like from role and still be able to save himself because he is was stated. Net and the individual men and women. School will refuse always to be tricked all fight all bribed into rendering not just the right but to use it to to cube tween justice and injustice. Courage and coward I stuck a size and green pity and self. School I believe our way is not only in the right Amanda be free of injustice and repassed in deception but the duty and responsibility of Amanda see the justice and truth and today and compassionate dong. So never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice on the Syrian troops and compassion against and justice and lying and green. If you not just you in this room tonight but in all the thousands of all the rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week. Or do this not as a class the classes but as individuals men and women you will change that. In one generation all the Napoleons and hips goes and sees of them you Salinas and Stalin and all the other towns who want power and aggrandize months and all the sample politicians I'm Tom Silva to themselves on the other baffled Well if you want to offer a user who has new all using a hoping you manage the on green from Mandan slaves will have vanished from the face of it. William Faulkner Rockford Lafayette County Mississippi a farmer who looked deep into the heart of light and right what is the there. It is.