Colourized footage of post war Germany. Investigation of Germany’s industrial production capabilities after World War II with striking images of destroyed German cities and factories. Amateur film made by George T. Fonda, assistant to the president, Weirton Steel Company. Archival footage. Perlinger Archives.
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“Prelude to War,” Chapter I of Frank Capra’s “Why We Fight” series, describes World War II as a battle between the “slave world” of fascism and the “free world” of American liberty. In the “slave world,” the
entire populations of Germany, Italy and Japan have been hoodwinked by madmen, opportunists who capitalized on their [...]
Triumph of the Will (German: Triumph des Willens) is a propaganda film made by Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg (the Nuremburg Rally was attended by Nazi supporters to promote the Nazi political party), which was attended by more than 30,000[1] Nazi supporters. The film contains excerpts from speeches given [...]
Continue Reading →Nanook of the North is regarded as the first significant nonfiction feature, made in the days before the term “documentary” had even been coined. Filmmaker Robert Flaherty had lived among the Eskimos in Canada for many years as a prospector and explorer, and he had shot some footage of them on an informal basis before [...]
Continue Reading →Made by a group of people with, if not an axe to grind, a purpose in mind, which appears to be a plug for future suburbia and back to the idyllic towns of the past and the Big City would just be a place where people work but not live. Or something like that, as [...]
Continue Reading →The River blends poetic narration with artistic cinematography and an original score by composer Virgil Thomson and was named Best Documentary at the Venice Film Festival in 1938. The script for the film was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for poetry and was also described by author James Joyce as “the most beautiful prose I [...]
Continue Reading →The film presents the social and economic history of the Great Plains — from the time of the settlement of the prairies, through the World War I boom, to the years of depression and drought. The first part of the film shows cattle as they grazed on grasslands, and homesteaders who hurried onto the plains [...]
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