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[Tim Atherton]

>   One thing which is not generally known is that a lot of
> color motion picture film was shot by both the American and
> German forces. Much of the American combat footage seen in
> black and white is actually on either Kodachrome or early
> Ektachrome.

I remember reading an intriguing article in the N Yorker about the hunt for
some of the motion picture colour film (I think it was tied into the
Spielberg D_Day movie at the time...).

It had gone from navy warehouse to navy warehouse and thought destroyed, but
eventually turned up thanks to a couple of historians, in a facility in
Omaha or somewhere. The article talked about how John Ford basically
"directed" the D Day landings and how much was shot in colour - with
"remote" cameras on landing craft etc, and also how many of the Coast Guard
camera men were killed.

There was also something about the reasons a lot of the colour stuff was
never released at the time - lots for political reasons, as well as
technical.

tim