Quote from: John G. on June 08, 2024, 12:11:41 PMMemory of the Camps was horrifying. It was documentary footage from just after the liberation of the concentration camps. they visited large and small camps. Hitchcock apparently did the treatment for the film and laid it out. The inhumanity is off the charts. The parallels to today are scary.That was an early, incomplete version. The full version was completed and restored ten years ago as German Concentration Camps Factual Survey. It's available from the Imperial War Museum at:https://www.iwm.org.uk/partnerships/german-concentration-camps-factual-surveyMy second cousin once removed initiated the film and his daughter helped get it completed. My understanding of Hitchcock's role matches yours.
Memory of the Camps was horrifying. It was documentary footage from just after the liberation of the concentration camps. they visited large and small camps. Hitchcock apparently did the treatment for the film and laid it out. The inhumanity is off the charts. The parallels to today are scary.
Another film about the camp liberation is 16 Photographs at Ohrdruf. This is about the camp my Dad helped liberate, the first one discovered by the U.S. Army. Seeing this film helped me identify which camp that was, and start to put together the larger story of his World War II service. His stories always ended in France. The film is about a similar process of discovery of a father's World War II service:https://www.454productions.com/16-photographs-at-ohrdruf
Quote from: John G. on June 08, 2024, 12:12:32 PMI must take a break.Speaking of this documentary and 1930s Germany, has anyone read this? I loved The Devil ion the White City.
I must take a break.
While The Garden of Beasts is interesting and worth reading, I don't think it is nearly as good as The Devil in the White City, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, or Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania.
At one point I was going to (jokingly) suggest the German Concentration Camps film to DR JohnG for his Hitchcock marathon. I'm impressed that you included Memory of the Camps in it!
MichaelG, your father was a hero.
Quote from: MichaelG on June 08, 2024, 12:49:23 PMAnother film about the camp liberation is 16 Photographs at Ohrdruf. This is about the camp my Dad helped liberate, the first one discovered by the U.S. Army. Seeing this film helped me identify which camp that was, and start to put together the larger story of his World War II service. His stories always ended in France. The film is about a similar process of discovery of a father's World War II service:https://www.454productions.com/16-photographs-at-ohrdrufDid your father also take photographs? Did he ever talk about his experience with you?
I also watched Hitchcock's two shorts for the French Resistance, one of which was called Bon Voyage. The other was Adventure Malgache.
Good for your cousins.
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Listening to Elmer Bernstein’s son, Peter, talk about his father’s music. He’s more than a son, in that he orchestrated his father’s music from the mid-1970s and on. He admits he’s no composer like his father was, but he also says Elmer couldn’t play a rock bass guitar worth a shit, which is more his gift.
Poor shark has a loose canine.
DR FREDDIE from the shenanigans I observed backstage at Wednesday night's rehearsal at a few of the cowboys and farmers have become very good friends.
Quote from: John G. on June 08, 2024, 11:02:07 AMAnd Pacific Overtures was once called Night of the Iguana. Isn't that in Chrysanthemum Tea, "It's the night of the iguana, my lord. With but two days remaining, I am tired of explaining, So ignore me if you wanna, my lord."
And Pacific Overtures was once called Night of the Iguana.
Quote from: John G. on June 08, 2024, 01:59:57 PMMichaelG, your father was a hero.No past tense please! He's still doing well, relaxing in Sarasota at 99 years old.
Quote from: John G. on June 08, 2024, 02:06:29 PMI also watched Hitchcock's two shorts for the French Resistance, one of which was called Bon Voyage. The other was Adventure Malgache.Ooh, I hadn't heard of those, I should look them up.
