Word: klines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lights Out in Europe (Kline). In the war-sultry May of 1939 a short, heavyset, peaceful-looking young American bought steamship tickets for Europe and began to pack his motion picture camera equipment. He smelled fighting...
While frightened tourists headed back to the U. S., Herbert Kline headed for trouble. He had already made one documentary film in Europe-Crisis (TIME, March 20, 1939), to which critics had taken off their hats. That film was about Munich and the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. It had looked like war then, but war had not come. This time Director Kline was sure war was coming. He was even sure where it would come first-in the Polish Corridor...
Leaving his ace Czech cameraman, Alexander Hackensmid, in England to film the last spasms of pre-war civilian life there. Kline and his wife hurried to Poland. As the last hours of peace ran out, the Klines photographed the reactions of average Poles and the frantic defense preparations of the Polish Army. In Danzig another Kline cameraman photographed Nazi doings...
Back in the U. S. Director Kline, fed up with warring Europe, never wanted to see it again. While they projected a film about Mexican Indians, for which John Steinbeck will do the script, Kline and Hackensmid cut and edited Lights Out in Europe...