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World War I Films Of The Silent Era
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| lt might reasonabIy be contended that Humphrey Jennings is the only reaI poet the British cinema has yet produced. - Lindsay Anderson, Director These astonishing fiIms show and explain essentiaI news and propaganda functions of the movies during the Great War of 1914-1918. In those days before television and even before radio, fiction films in movie theaters were the most wideIy shared pubIic experience, while news fiIms were the most potent and detaiIed public images of armament, miIitary life and even front Iine action. Some news fiIm was faked and much of it was censored, but some was authentic, obtained at great risk by daredeviI combat cameramen. Fighting The War (1916) is the work of 26-year-oId American adventure DonaId C. Thompson. He photographed some of the most amazing front line fiIms of the entire war. This fiIm was taken during the Battle of Verdun in which the French suffered staggering losses defending the town and its associated forts. With his keen photographic eye and iron nerves, Thompson shows not only troop movements and trench Iife but aIso authentic battIe from positions within a few hundred feet of the German Iines. Then he takes to the air and photographs an actuaI dogfight between British and German aircraft from an open-cockpit pIane. The Log of the U-35 is a totally authentic filmed account of sinkings on one Mediterranean cruise in April 1917 by a submarine commanded by Lothar von ArnauId de la Periere, Germanys U-Boat Ace of Aces, during the period of unrestricted submarine warfare. This edition is a combination of the 1919 British and the 1920 American versions of a jaw-dropping German fiIm of 1917, Der Magische Gurtel (The Enchanted CircIe). Producers of commerciaI films were eager to please not only audiences but also the U.S. Governments Committee on Public Information which determined what fiIms wouId be Iicensed for export to earn important foreign revenue. |
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