Word: forde
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ford had been in charge of the camera unit at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, his mission to film the Operation Overlord invasion that landed 176,000 Allied soldiers on the beaches of Normandy for the massive assault against the Germans occupying France. Yet somehow Ford's footage was lost until 1998, when Melvyn R. Paisley, a World War II aviator and Reagan-era Assistant Secretary of the Navy, found a few canisters of the missing film deep within the National Archives. Spielberg, whose father had also served in the U.S. Army Air Corps and who would...
When director Steven Spielberg was a teenager, he had a memorable encounter with his hero, the legendary John Ford. The aspiring filmmaker and the aging icon discovered they had something very special in common: a fascination with...
Narrated by Tom Hanks and scored by composer Arthur B. Rubinstein, Shooting War--which is due to air on ABC late this summer--is not for the fainthearted. It is the great WW II documentary Ford never got to make. "Don't pretty it up," Spielberg insisted to Schickel, who directed and wrote the film. "I want to see the wounded and the dying. I want people to understand that's what war is about...
Shooting War begins with never-before-seen outtakes from John Ford's Hollywood re-creation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and ends with the actual footage of the annihilation of Nagasaki by a U.S. atom bomb on Aug. 9, 1945. What makes the images so immediate, however, is the harrowing commentary from some of the 23 combat cameramen interviewed for the film. "I came to view these cameramen as they view other servicemen--as heroes of the quotidian," says Schickel. "They were guys doing their jobs without thought of glory or fame. They remain...
...domestic partners: They're not just for San Franciscans anymore. With a nod to a new generation of workers and an increasingly competitive labor market, America's three biggest carmakers announced Thursday they would offer comprehensive health benefits to employees' same-sex domestic partners. The kings of Detroit (Ford, GM and Chrysler) will begin offering the benefits as of August 1; various spokespeople expressed hope the move would encourage potential employees to see the once staid industry in a new light. They have good reason to hope they will stand apart: The vast majority of American companies still...