#(19)THE GENERAL

First Edition 200 of which 12 copies are signed. Two sets of progressives, signed.

1972 Five colors 18" x 24"

Client: Tom Luddy, The Pacific Film Archive, 2625 Durant Avenue, University of California Art Museum, Berkeley CA 94720. Telephone (510) 642-1413 All signed copies to The Poster, San Francisco

(Communication Arts, January/February 1977) (facsimile)

Second Printing 400 copies of which 200 copies are signed. 1973 No alterations All signed copies to The Poster, San Francisco 1973

Second edition 100 copies of which 25 are signed. 1973 Orange disk deleted Four colors All signed copies to The Poster, San Francisco

If you're going to steal, steal big. If you're going to lie, tell a lie so big that, often enough repeated, it will come to be the truth. Do not pilfer, or tell fibs. You'll just get caught and you'll be sorry afterwards. About the biggest thing you can steal is a man's life. That takes everything he has. It doesn't leave youwith much, of course, except his dead flesh. Slavery steals his life also, except that the use of his days becomes the possession, for so long as he hangs on, of another person. The fratricidal war this film celebrates was about stealing, both big and small, and changing the rules about what was stealing and what wasn't. Compared to stealing lives, and stealing days, stealing a locomotive scarcely seems worth discussion.