XPost: or.politics, or.general
From: dhomuth1@comcast.net
On 13 Jul 2006 08:55:27 -0700, "David Loftus"
wrote:
>
>Don Homuth wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:38:45 -0700, Don Homuth
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Did you see the original in its entirety -- including the films about
>> >the USSR's experiences?
>> >
>> >That segment, interestingly enough, was removed from the series as
>> >shown during the late 40's,...
>>
>> Backchecking, it was apparently 1951. The specific incident was at a
>> USIA film archive in Singapore, where a bunch of Chinese were spending
>> quite a bit of time looking at the episode about the USSR in WW2, and
>> an information officer at the embassy got bothered by that and
>> complained.
>>
>> Thereafter the print was removed from the USIA archive files and not
>> shown for several decades.
>
>What did the Russia segment focus on? Leningrad? Stalingrad?
If memory serves, it was a two-part film, and it covered the entirety
of the Great Patriotic War and included both at some considerable
length.
>I've never seen any of the series, but I was aware of them from the
>wonderful "Men Who Made the Movies" docu-series that ran on PBS in the
>mid 1970s, when I was in my teens. They devoted some time to "Why We
>Fight" in the segment on Frank Capra, and I read his autobiography
>shortly thereafter.
It's worth seeing -- an actual Masterpiece of propaganda filmmaking.
It has been widely acclaimed as perhaps The single best example of
that anywhere.
>Did he direct all the segments, or just some?
All, I believe. More importantly, he directed the editing as well,
since it used a lot of captured film from both German and Japanese
sources.
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