SOMETHING WORTH WATCHING
Spent last night watching the documentary “George Stevens: From D-Day to Berlin.”
Hollywood director George Stevens led the SHAEF Motion Picture Group from D-Day to the end of the war. The team were all Hollywood Pros, and 90% of the documentary footage you have seen of that campaign was theirs. Stevens also took his 16mm camera and 10,000 feet of Kodachrome film. He took the only color footage of the campaign, and this documentary was made from that by his son after he died. I saw it in a theater here when it first came out in 1994 for the 50th anniversary.
It’s still excellent and you can see it here at the Internet Archive. Also available for streaming on Max at TCM.
George Stevens: From D-Day to Berlin
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Thanks for the link, Tom. I worked as a lowly publicity person for Stevens at the old Culver City Desilu lot right after college on The Greatest Story Ever Told.” A perk was getting to know him. I once sat in a corner listening while he and David Lean swapped stories.
Thank you Tom; I have seen some of George Steven's color footage at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in DC but, never the completed documentary; George Stevens" From D-Day to Berlin".
The Dachau footage was or is (not certain now) an Exhibit at the U.S. Museum.
My understanding is that Stevens' color film of Dachau & Deben was used as Exhibits at the Nuremberg Trials. I am not certain but, perhaps more footage was used at Nuremberg under Film ID# 4291, #4292, #4293, 94, 95 & 96.
Super Link 🙏🏻