The First D-Day Documentary There's an article on the blog site of the American National Archives by Steven Greene concerning a D-Day film which he believes "is probably the first film documentary of the events of the first four days of the D-day assault, created within days of the invasion." http://blogs.archives.gov/unwritten-record/2014/09/09/the-first-d-day-documentary/ Most of the footage will be familiar as it was later used in countless other productions that were to follow. It can also be viewed online at the IWM and I suspect it has been accessible there for some time. There is no dramatic music or sound effects. All that's heard is the the occasional narration by an American speaker delivered in a plain no-nonsense style. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fvQnDj4aqw Regards ...
Last week, I stumbled upon this one about Operation Cobra ... not a first documentary, Blumenson's Break-out and Pursuit was published in 1961, but an old one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzFFfrACf5w
I often wondered why the GIs were considered bad marksmen. Now I know: they're closing the wrong eye! Michel
It's amazing the number of silly images Google turns up for "cross-eyed". If you watch that American documentary carefully you may even catch a few nods along the way to their Commonwealth Allies ... :P Regards ...
