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German concentration camps factual survey : a lost masterpiece of British documentary dinema from 1945 /

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Material type: Film

FilmLanguage: English, German Original language: English, German Subtitle language: English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian Publisher: London : BFI, [2017]Edition: Special archival editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (approximately 72 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (76 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)Content type:

two-dimensional moving image

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video

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videodisc

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Genre/Form: LOC classification:

PN1995.9.H53 G47 2017

Narrated by Jasper Britton, Alfred Hitchcock (archive footage), Sidney Bernstein.Summary: On 29 September 1945, the incomplete rough-cut of a disturbing yet compelling documentary revealing the horrors of the German concentration camps was screened at the Ministry of Information in London. For five months Sidney Bernstein had led a small team, including Stewart McAllister, Richard Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock, to complete the film from hours of footage. But this ambitious Allied project to create a feature-length visual report that would damn the Nazi regime and shame the German people into accepting the Allied occupation had missed its moment and was eventually shelved, unfinished. Even in its incomplete form, however, the film proved immensely powerful, generating a shocked silence among audiences. Now completed to its intended six reels, this faithfully restored and definitive version, produced by Imperial War Museums (IWM) and with a newly recorded narration by Jasper Britton, has been rightly compared to Alain Resnais' Night and Fog (1955).

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	BLU-00237 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050304505
Booklet	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	BLU-00238 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050304513

This film was compiled from material shot by combat and newsreel cameramen of Great Britain, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1944-1945.

Dates from package copyright on container.

Includes fragments of the documentary "German concentration camps factual survey" produced by Sidney Bernstein and Alfred Hitchcock; restored and completed by IWM in 2010-2014.

Booklet (76 pages ; illustrations) with full credits and essays.

Special features: New restoration by IWM (Imperial War Museums) -- Presented with optional Intro and Outro that help to contextualize the film -- Panel discussion at BFI Southbank (2015, 42 mins) -- Audio commentary with Dr. Toby Haggith and senior nonfiction curator Patrick Russel (BFI) -- Vox Pops Compilation (2015, 6 mins) -- Interview with Ludwig Weill at Fort Breendonk (1944, 3 mins) -- Interviews at Bergen-Belsen (1945, 18 mins) -- Interviews at Dachau (1945, 38 mins) -- Interview with Dr. Petr Zenkl (1945, 13 mins) -- Archival soundtrack -- 80 page book with comprehensive essays on the making of the film and its restoration, and full film credits.

Rated: 18+; graphic footage of atrocities.

DVD9, PAL; full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo audio.

In English with some dialogue in German; optional subtitles in English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Russian.

Open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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German concentration camps factual survey : a lost masterpiece of British documentary dinema from 1945 /