earlgreyphotos: John Ford makes another movie classic in Monument ValleyArizona Highways April
earlgreyphotos: John Ford makes another movie classic in Monument ValleyArizona Highways April 1956. Written and photographed by Allen C. Reed.One of the highest tributes that can be paid to anyone by the Navajo people is the presentation of a sacred ceremonial deer skin complete with ears, tail and legs. This rare honor has a deep Navajo meaning that would be difficult to interpret into everyday words of the whiteman.Such a presentation recently made to John Ford, while he was in Monument Valley to film his latest western classic, “The Searchers”, was not dedicated to John Ford, the famous director but to John Ford, the man. His fame, great as it is, has little meaning on the vast isolated Navajo Reservation where most of the inhabitants have yet to see their first motion picture. But John Ford, the man had most certainly earned the devoted admiration and respect of the Navajo people during extended periods of close association over the past seventeen years when he had directed five major western pictures in their scenic land.Interesting piece on the director John Ford, including insight into the shooting of his famous film “The Searchers” starring John Wayne. -- source link