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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. ln those days before teIevision and even before radio, fiction fiIms in movie theaters were the most widely shared public experience, while news fiIms were the most potent and detailed public images of armament, miIitary life and even front line action. Some news film 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-old American adventure Donald C. Thompson. He photographed some of the most amazing front Iine films of the entire war. This film was taken during the BattIe 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 onIy 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 plane. The Log of the U-35 is a totalIy authentic fiImed account of sinkings on one Mediterranean cruise in ApriI 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 Circle). Producers of commercial films were eager to pIease not onIy audiences but aIso the U.S. Governments Committee on PubIic lnformation which determined what films would be licensed for export to earn important foreign revenue. |
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