Editing King Vidor (section)

====Autobiography: ''A Tree is a Tree''====

In 1953, Vidor's autobiography entitled ''A Tree is a Tree'' was published and widely praised. Film critic Dan Callahan provides this excerpt the book:

{{blockquote| "I believe that every one of us knows that his major job on earth is to make some contribution, no matter how small, to this inexorable movement of human progress. The march of man, as I see it, is not from the cradle to the grave. It is instead, from the animal or physical to the spiritual. The airplane, the atom bomb, radio, radar, television are all evidences of the urge to overcome the limitations of the physical in favor of the freedom of the spirit. Man, whether he is conscious of it or not, knows deep inside that he has a definite upward mission to perform during the time of his life span. He knows that the purpose of his life cannot be stated in terms of ultimate oblivion."<ref>Whiteley, 2010: "...a well-received biography…"<br />Callahan, 2007: "In his autobiography, ''A Tree is a Tree'' (1953), he states his case in a nutshell..." See quote above.</ref>}}