Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film lasts 20 minutes. Its scope is global. The camera swings from Paris to London to the U.S., from New Caledonia to Equatorial Africa. The commentary is terse. The screen itself, in its simple documenting of events and people, clinches one irrefutable fact: No U.S. citizen need question again the will of Frenchmen to be free...
There are no stars in the film, and yet the acting is unsurpassed. For again it is the camera that has caught the battle as it is being fought, with every Russian playing his own part...
...Strikes Back" paints a graphic and moving picture of heroic proportions about the struggle in which the Red Armies and the Russian people are now engaged. Every scene is packed with action, action that wasn't prepared in advance by scriptwriters and directors. It is action caught by the camera of photographers who followed the battles through the ruined villages and torn fields that are Russia's battle-grounds...
...planes and bursting ack-ack, the mortal brilliance of blood-Technicolor vindicates the remark made about it at its birth a decade ago that "Now Hollywood is ready to film the Last Judgment." The film jumps crazily when the bombs rock the Hand; and the camera shifts again & again to the faces of two young Marines firing an anti-aircraft gun-not in fear, not in bloodthirst, but only intently, the way an outfielder watches a fly ball...
...first time, Disney has done his backgrounds in oils instead of watercolors. The result is striking. The russet reds, browns, bright yellows, make autumn look like autumn. Each season has a special color impact. The colors are softer, more alive and, with the aid of the multiplane camera, give the picture solidity, the forest a three-dimensional depth...