Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians in Moscow packed six movie houses to see Desert Victory, Britain's great record of triumph in North Africa (TIME, April 12). Prime Minister Winston Churchill had sent the picture personally to Premier Joseph Stalin. It was scheduled for showings throughout the U.S.S.R., and to Red Army troops at the front...
...Standley, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, no longer had cause to complain that the facts of Allied aid were being withheld from the Russians (TIME, March 15). The exchange of information and good will was two-way. In London, cinema audiences hailed a Russian film, Stalingrad, as the equal of Desert Victory, In the U.S., audiences and critics applauded MARCH OF TIME'S One Day of War, which had been derived from a longer Russian film, and the epic Siege of Leningrad...
...Desert Victory (British Army Film & Photographic Unit; TIME, April...
...Desert Victory" is a first rate documentary of the El Alamein-Tripoli phase in the Eighth Army's North African advance. It translates the newspaper headlines of the past months into specific and personal detail; it shows, in the determined action and tense faces of the men themselves, how the Eighth Army halted its retreat, "dug in" to hold off Field Marshal Rommel, and knocked his "invincible" strategy into a cocked hat by breaking through the German panzer wall and advancing some 1400 miles through desert dust...
Four British cameramen were killed in the filming of "Desert Victory" and the movie is a tribute to their selfless daring as well as to the sweated courage of the Allied force and the strategic wisdom of its leadership. The camera is not on the fringe of the ground attack; it dashes into the midst of it. It is not high above the air attack; it swoops down with it. The commentator's job becomes unimportant because the action rarely needs to be explained; it can be seen close...