Oscar-winning filmmaker James Ivory discovers boxes of films he made during a life-changing trip to Afghanistan in 1960 | dG1fdGV1Rm5VNkhlMVU
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00:00In 1960, I made a trip to Afghanistan to shoot scenes for a documentary.
00:20The film would never get finished, and the footage stayed in a box, unseen, for 60 years.
00:29In Afghanistan, before the Taliban, before the Russians and the Mujahideen, before the
00:40American occupation, in Afghanistan that today is a vanished world.
00:53Nearly 80 years have passed since then, and looking at these pictures of my high school
00:59classmates, I find myself looking at another vanished world.
01:10Vanished are the days or furtive glances where the closest a young gay man could get to expressing
01:17his desires.