Baby Peace: Randal Kleiser's 35 year old antiwar PSA

Xeni Jardin 6:03 am Wed Oct 5, 2005

In 1970, film director Randal Kleiser (website / IMDB) was a film student at USC — his roommate there, btw, was George Lucas. One of Randal's projects during that time was a one-minute "ad" protesting the Vietnam War, created with Harry Winer. They asked Jon Voight to do the voiceover, he said yes. With a very simple set and help from a very young actor, they produced a beautiful short which Randal has kindly offered to share with Boing Boing readers again today.

It's as if it was produced just a day ago.

Baby Peace, directed by Randal Kleiser:
Link to quicktime, Link to WMV.

(Thanks, Jeff Kleiser, and thanks, Randal Kleiser — and special thanks to Jeff Koga for video conversion!)

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