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240: 236:"Before the American documentary had quite learned how to adapt itself to wartime uses, this fine record of the triumphant 1300 mile chase of Rommel's Afrika Korps from El Alamein to Tripoli, by the British 8th Army, came along to celebrate a victory, mark a turning point of the war, and spur on our own official film-makers to report back from the many fronts the thrilling facts of Allied combat. Exceptionally lucid as to the terrain and the action involved, the film also brought home with a shock to the average civilian the reality, the human element, of battle. It was, perhaps, the best and earliest vindication of the documentary film as the powerfully educational and inspiring force it can be." 1157: 1100: 31: 232:
An early screening in the U.S., at New York's Museum of Modern Art, was for its "The Documentary Film" series, lasting from January through May 1946. This film was shown on April 1-2-3-4, and the Museum offered high praise:
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relies heavily on captured German newsreel footage. Many of the most famous sequences in the film have been excerpted and appear with frequency in
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Barry, Iris. "The Documentary Film, Prospect and Retrospect." The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 13:2 (December 1945), 10.
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Roy Boulting
James Lansdale Hodson
David MacDonald
Army Film and Photographic Unit
Royal Air Force Film Production Unit
20th Century Fox
Ministry of Information
Erwin Rommel
Afrika Korps
Erwin Rommel
Field Marshal
Bernard Montgomery
El Alamein
David MacDonald
Tunisian Victory
Burma Victory
Why We Fight
Frank Capra
History Channel
A&E
Oscar
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

List of Allied Propaganda Films of World War 2
Power of Film Propaganda
A & C Black
ISBN
0826473903
Desert Victory

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