Courtesy of the Indiana University online media library you watch Dan Klugherz’s 1969 television documentary American Samoa: Paradise Lost?, with music by Morton Feldman. Needless to say, it’s an outlier in Feldman’s output. His curious choice to employ a vaguely film-noir trumpet melody as a main theme lends an overly sentimental patina to Klugherz’s earnest attempt at assessing the social effects of the U.S. colonial regime in Samoa. But some crisply dancing ostinato episodes show Feldman’s partial kinship to minimalism, for which he served as an intermittently benevolent uncle. The music can be heard on the Kairos disc Something Wild: Music for Film, alongside scores for Robert Frank’s The Sin of Jesus, based on the Isaac Babel story; Jack Garfein’s Something Wild, in the course of which Feldman was replaced by Aaron Copland; and Hans Namuth’s classic short documentary Jackson Pollock 51.