Let There Be Light

From the intake interviews recorded by director John Huston, American soldiers beginning their treatment for what the US Army called “psycho-neurotic” injuries, neither the subjects or the physicians identified, from the long-censored US Army documentary Let There Be Light, 1946.

Opening director John Huston’s last US Army documentary, about veterans suffering from what were then called “psycho-neruotic” conditions, made in 1946 but banned from release until 1980, his father Walter narrating, shot at Mason General Hospital on Long Island, from Let There Be Light.