Beachhead to Berlin

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Beachhead to Berlin is a 21-minute Technicolor film about the Normandy landings, a Vitaphone short produced by Warner Bros. and released on December 15, 1944. [1] [2]

The film makes extensive use of documentary footage of preparations and the beach landings shot by U.S. Coast Guard photographers. [2] The fictionalized framing device is a Coast Guard chaplain's voice-over narration of a V-mail letter home. [3] The film has been preserved and was digitized by the U.S. National Archives. [3] Some of the beach landing footage was recorded by USCG Chief Photographer's Mate David T. Ruley at Omaha Beach in the vicinity of Easy Red sector, [4] at about the same time as Robert Capa took his D-Day photos first published in Life magazine. [5]

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  1. ↑ Liebman, Roy (2003). Vitaphone Films: A Catalogue of the Features and Shorts. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 284. ISBN   978-0786446971.
  2. 1 2 "Beachhead to Berlin". The New York Times. 1944-12-16. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
  3. 1 2 "[Beachhead to Berlin] | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
  4. ↑ "Ruley, David T., FILMING NORMANDY D DAY, Movie Makers 20:6 June 1945, pp. 213, 228–230" (PDF). nearbycafe.com.
  5. ↑ "Guest Post 24: Charles Herrick on Capa's D-Day (e) « Photocritic International". www.nearbycafe.com. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
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