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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      Non-Film Score Discussion: Unseen Alfred Hitchcock Holocaust documentary   Last Post   Posted:   Jan 26, 2015 - 6:26 AM     By:   Francis   (Member) I had no idea Hitchcock made a documentary on the holocaust, but he did and it has been restored for screenings as well as a broadcast on British television this year. Interesting: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/10/unseen-alfred-hitchcock-holocaust-documentary-screening    Posted:   Jan 26, 2015 - 8:07 PM     By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member) That documentary ABOUT the documentary is playing tonight at 9:00 PM on HBO, and doubtless will be repeated.    Posted:   Jan 27, 2015 - 5:57 AM     By:   Timmer   (Member) I watched Holocaust: Night Will Fall shown on Channel 4 here in the UK ( still available on iplayer for about a Month ) and is worth your time seeing though it may go without saying that you need to brace yourself for the worst kind of appalling imagery and inhumanity you are likely to see on terrestrial television.    Posted:   Jan 27, 2015 - 10:51 PM     By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member) NIGHT WILL FALL is the aforementioned documentary about the original documentary, the one shown on HBO in the USA.    Posted:   Jan 27, 2015 - 10:51 PM     By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member) SNAFU    Posted:   Jan 27, 2015 - 10:51 PM     By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member) SNAFU II    Posted:   Jan 28, 2015 - 12:56 PM     By:   Rozsaphile   (Member) Most of us have likely seen examples of the sickening liberation footage in one or more of the many sober Holocaust documentaries. With few exceptions (e.g., Resnais's Night and Fog) these films date from the 1970s or later. I suppose the first exposure hits hardest. For me it came way back in the 1960s, in an ROTC classroom screening of The True Glory (1945). The shock was all the greater because the overall tone of the film was so upbeat and patriotic. The movie was designed to celebrate the victorious Allied campaign in the European war. I don't know how widely the film was seen in 1945, but the effect of those images on civilian audiences must have been huge. Garson Kanin and Carol Reed shared directing credit, and there's an effective score by William Alwyn. I see that the film can now be accessed on YouTube.    Posted:   Jan 29, 2015 - 5:57 AM     By:   WILLIAMDMCCRUM   (Member) Interestingly, the 'making of' docu has an interview in German with Billy Wilder. Apparently, the Americans got tired of waiting for Bernstein's and Hitchcock's perfectionist vision to be unveiled, and, because of changes in policy towards the Germans whose co-operation was indispensible for administration, they replaced the British version with one edited by Wilder. The comment made was that Hitch's tone was, 'This could happen anywhere, and we must see that WE never allow it to again', whereas Wilder's was propagandist and 'hectoring' ... 'See what THEY did'. Bernstein and Hitch were keen to use footage from everywhere, the British at Belsen, the Russians, the Americans, etc., and their film was longer and more detailed.     Non-Film Score Discussion: Unseen Alfred Hitchcock Holocaust documentary    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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