Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within a few weeks an event of unique significance will be available to you via your television screen. It is the MARCH OF TIME'S documentary film of General Dwight Eisenhower's best-selling book, Crusade In Europe...
...This filmed and televised account of the war in Europe as Eisenhower saw it is the first public showing of thousands of feet of film shot on the battlefronts of World War II by combat and civilian cameramen and hitherto withheld for security reasons. It will be presented in 26 two-reel episodes of 20 minutes each...
After General Eisenhower turned his manuscript over to Doubleday & Co., 20th-Century-Fox bought from the publishers the television rights to Crusade In Europe, asked the MARCH OF TIME to film it, and leased the film series to the American Broadcasting Co., which will telecast...
...which has been in business 15 years and now turns out news films for a worldwide audience of moviegoers, this was a major assignment. In the first place, this was Eisenhower's story, and his account had to be reproduced faithfully in pictures. Secondly, MOT found itself overwhelmed with riches. The U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard; the British War Office and Ministry of Information; the National Film Board of Canada and other hitherto inaccessible sources suddenly made 165,000,000 feet of restricted war-film available for the project. Fortunately, MOT had the staff...
...being delivered by a government agent to a farming village in order that it may pay for harvesting equipment and rent. The money is stolen by a gang of desperate, unemployed Italians, one of whom happens to be a veteran of a German prison camp. The remainder of the film deals with the citizens' chase after the robbers for the subsidy money in an attempt to save their first post-war crop. The theme of the film is the plight of the unemployed veteran in a defeated, starving, and bankrupt country, and the ease of transition from soldier to gangster...