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Typical of the soldiers of fortune who drifted to movie work was Phil Tannura, a Signal Corps cameraman whose journey to 1919 Russia recorded the maltreatment of Bolshevik captives. "We came to a prison in Omsk," he recalls. "They brought thirteen [prisoners] out and I noticed some soldiers on the side with guns. I asked what the soldiers were for. 'Well,' they said, 'you wanted to shoot them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Record of Fleeting Realities | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

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