2/11/2024 0 Comments Greatest tank battles soundtrack![]() ![]() There are amateur 8mm home movies here, of GIs clowning in front of the camera, and cracking beers, and cleaning their weapons. "In my original squad, I'm the only one left unharmed." He died in action on the Fourth of July, 1966. "I tell you truthfully I doubt if I'll come out of this alive," a private named Raymond Griffiths writes home to his girlfriend. In many cases, they have matched up individual soldiers with their letters - we see them as we hear their words, and then we discover their fates. What Couturie and his researchers have done is amazing. Much of the footage in this film has never been seen publicly before, and watching it, you know why. ![]() He also gained access to footage from the Defense Department, including previously classified film of action under fire. Then he screened the entire archive of TV news footage shot by NBC-TV from 1967 to 1969 - 2 million feet of film totaling 926 hours. Couturie began with an anthology of letters written home by U.S. There are moments here that cannot be forgotten, and most of them are due to the hard work of the filmmaker, director Bill Couturie, who has not taken just any words and any old footage, but precisely the right words to go with the images. The words are the words of the soldiers themselves, and the images are taken from their own home movies and from TV news footage of the war. This movie is so powerful precisely because it is so simple. ![]()
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