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Episode 26, Remember

Item number (ISN):

436636

Series title:

The World at War

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1974

Item number (ISN):

436636

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: OFF-AIR

Accession:

1977-0304

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1974

Release date:

1977 ?

Production company:

Thames Production

Production credit:

producer/scenario/executive producer, Jeremy Isaacs; music, Carl Davis; narrator, Lawrence Olivier

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Description:

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The twenty-sixth and final episode of this television documentary series in a statistical and human interest study of World War II combat and soldiery.~The topics covered are: the nature of the battlefield; fear, beauty, recreation, humour, comradship, inspiration, sorrow, cruelty, suffering, and guilt in combat circumstances; and the story of the Oradour-Sur-Glane martyrdom.~The following scenes, shots and sounds are shown and heard: Remembrance Day ceremonies observed by British Royalty and British Legionnaires; occupied Paris in 1940; American soldiers celebrating with the locals in a Burgundy, France vineyard region; putting a dead soldier into a white bag; a German war dead memorial service; starving Russian POWs jumping for potatoes thrown into the camp for them by village women; dead and mangled, unburied children in southern Italy; Russian prisoners of war starving in a camp; the victim of a hanging swaying from a tree in the wind; a 1974 visit to the site of the Nuremberg Rallies; and Willy Brandt laying a wreath at a German War Dead Memorial.~Comments are made by: Stanley Drinkwater; Lawrence Durell; Joe Minague; British and American veterans; J. Glenn Gray, author of "The Warriors", Bill Mauldin, cartoonist for "Stars and Stripes"; Wynford Vaughn-Thomas; Jimmy Thomas, Royal Navy; H. Pheffer, US disabled veteran; and Noble Frankland, Imperial War Museum. <60mn>

Language:

English

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1. Source of description: viewing of document.~2. Made with the assistance of the CBC and produced in cooperation with the Imperial War Museum.~3. ACCESS Promo. Television promo promotes the CBC public access television series ACCESS.~4. Television commercials for Gulf Canada that promotes the idea that oil exploration is a high-cost activitiy and a commerical for the Loblaws food chain. ~5. Includes commercial for Papermate Write-On Pen.
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

~To be Determined / À déterminer

Donor restrictions:

The permission of the donor, the CBC, is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Thames Productions.

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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