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The True Glory

Item number (ISN):

135205

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1945

Item number (ISN):

135205

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: NON NFB FILMS

Accession:

1979-0210

Media:

Film

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1945

Release date:

1945

Production company:

Ministry of Information
Office of War Information
Joint Anglo-American Film Planning Committee

Production credit:

director, Carol Reed; Garson Kanin; scenario, Peter Ustinov; Gerald Kersh; Harry Brown; Guy Trosper; Saul Levitt; Eric Maschwitz; Frank Harvey; Arthur Macrae; Jenny Nicholson; editing, Robert Verrell; Lieberwitz; Bob Farrell; Jerry Cowen; Bob Carrick; Bob Clark; music, William Alwyn

Distributor name:

Producers Releasing Corporation Limited

Description:

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Documentary about the Allied war effort during the Second World War, compiled from approximately 10 million feet of film shot by Allied cameramen from D-Day to V-E Day. Prologue by Dwight D. Eisenhower. The footage is intercut with maps. Among the images are scenes of the home front in London, England, the liberation of Rennes, France, the return of General Charles de Gaulle to Paris, concentration camps, the meeting of British, American and Russian troops, a military cemetery and captured German soldiers. The role of the Canadian forces is represented by footage of the Battle of the Atlantic, Canadian Merchant Marines, production on the home front, Halifax harbour, Canadian troops arriving at Liverpool, Canadian military police in London, the Maple Leaf Club and the RCAF Club in Great Britain, Canadian Highland and artillery troops on leave in London, Canadian forces in action in Sicily and the Italian campaign, D-Day, a soldier from Hamilton, Ontario narrating his account of the battle at Caen, Canadians in Brussels, Canadians destroying V2 rocket sites, Canadian troops freeing the ports along the west coast of Europe, action at the Scheldt and the Riechwald and in action across the Rhine. <83mn 35s>

Language:

English

Original number:

12-781~12-782~12-783

Notes:

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1. This film was distributed in the United States by Columbia Pictures for the Office of War Information and through the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry.~2. A French version was produced under the title UNE VÉRITABLE GLOIRE.~3. The footage is credited on screen to the combat photographers of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Poland, Belgium, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and The Netherlands (includes footage shot by the Canadian Army Film Unit).~4. For a review, see the Canadian Moving Picture Digest, November 10, 1945, Vol. 37, No. 28, p. 9.~5. The duration of the three reels is: 26mn 31s, 26mn 37s and 30mn 27s.~6. For a full-page advertisement see the "Canadian Film Weekly", November 21, 1945, Vol. 10, No. 47, p. 15.~7. Source of production credits (other than those for Reed, Kanin and the combat photographers) and synopsis (other than the specific Canadian references): http://www.britmovie.co.uk/directors/c reed/index.html and http://www.britmovie.co.uk/index.html~8. The NFB confirmed in February 2003, that copyright on this material rests with the Imperial War Museum.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

79397

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8408-0067

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

115489

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7907-0889
7907-0890
7907-0891

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

382128

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2003-04-0011

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

978344

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2003-04-0014

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

7907-0889
7909-0890
7909-0891
2002-03-0262
2002-03-0263

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

985240

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 8408-0067

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Made from:

7301-1481
7707-0142
FROM LOANED MATERIAL
8405-0145
8405-0146
7907-0889
7907-0890
7907-0891

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8408-0067
V1 2003-04-0011

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD579

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Imperial War Museum.

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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