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German concentration camps factual survey : a lost masterpiece of British documentary dinema from 1945 / restored and completed by IWM ; produced by Sidney Bernstein.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD/PAL 031 568 disc 1-2
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- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Haggith, Toby, author.
- Russell, Patrick (Museum curator), author.
- Language:
- Czech
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Polish
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Europe--Sources.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Sources.
- Atrocities.
- Internment camps.
- Liberty.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Sources.
- Nazi concentration camps.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Documentary films.
- Documentary television programs.
- Historical films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Nonfiction films.
- Nonfiction television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (approximately 72 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (76 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
- 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Special archival edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : BFI, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English with some dialogue in German; optional subtitles in English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Russian.
- Open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD9, PAL; full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo audio.
- digital optical stereo Dolby Digital
- full screen (1.37:1)
- PAL
- video file DVD video
- Summary:
- On 29 September 1945, the incomplete rough-cut of a disturbing yet compelling documentary revealing the horrors of the German concentration camps was screened at the Ministry of Information in London. For five months Sidney Bernstein had led a small team, including Stewart McAllister, Richard Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock, to complete the film from hours of footage. But this ambitious Allied project to create a feature-length visual report that would damn the Nazi regime and shame the German people into accepting the Allied occupation had missed its moment and was eventually shelved, unfinished. Even in its incomplete form, however, the film proved immensely powerful, generating a shocked silence among audiences. Now completed to its intended six reels, this faithfully restored and definitive version, produced by Imperial War Museums (IWM) and with a newly recorded narration by Jasper Britton, has been rightly compared to Alain Resnais' Night and Fog (1955).
- Participant:
- Narrated by Jasper Britton, Alfred Hitchcock (archive footage), Sidney Bernstein.
- Notes:
- This film was compiled from material shot by combat and newsreel cameramen of Great Britain, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1944-1945.
- Dates from package copyright on container.
- Includes fragments of the documentary "German concentration camps factual survey" produced by Sidney Bernstein and Alfred Hitchcock; restored and completed by IWM in 2010-2014.
- Booklet (76 pages ; illustrations) with full credits and essays.
- Special features: New restoration by IWM (Imperial War Museums) -- Presented with optional Intro and Outro that help to contextualize the film -- Panel discussion at BFI Southbank (2015, 42 mins) -- Audio commentary with Dr. Toby Haggith and senior nonfiction curator Patrick Russel (BFI) -- Vox Pops Compilation (2015, 6 mins) -- Interview with Ludwig Weill at Fort Breendonk (1944, 3 mins) -- Interviews at Bergen-Belsen (1945, 18 mins) -- Interviews at Dachau (1945, 38 mins) -- Interview with Dr. Petr Zenkl (1945, 13 mins) -- Archival soundtrack -- 80 page book with comprehensive essays on the making of the film and its restoration, and full film credits.
- OCLC:
- 1003644132
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