Word: ferno
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...with it, largely liberal artists eager to contribute their talents to the cause of Spanish democracy, has a record of high achievement. Besides Author Hemingway, who wrote and recites the infrequent but unforgettably eloquent narrative lines, there were five other unusually meritorious contributors. Director Ivens and his photographer, John Ferno, won the National Board of Review's second award for a foreign film* last year with their filming of the damming of the Zuyder Zee. The sonorous Hispanic melodies that play in and out of The Spanish Earth were arranged by two of the most imaginative modern musicians...
...pictures were not posed, not acted. Ivens and Ferno suffered the bombardments with the people they show. They were under fire with the soldiers, frequently resorting to a hand camera so that they could get closer to the action. Opening shots are in Fuentidueña and the bare fields surrounding the village. The townsfolk go out to dig irrigation ditches, denied them by the old regime, so they can raise food for the defenders of Madrid. The camera moves from the village to Madrid, to the front, to an attack on a bridge, back to the town. University City...