> I saw an incredible show on TV tonight called "Shooting War." It was about the soldiers who carried motion picture cameras with them into World War II. I felt amazed, in awe, sickened, frightened, and proud of many of the images and stories told here. It definitely was not for the faint of heart but it was a stirring look upon what war is. Although it is impossible to truly know about it without experiencing it, these films showed it better than Hollywood ever could.
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> Some of the filmmakers featured were Russ Meyer and John Huston. Tom Hanks hosted it and Spielberg produced it.
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During WWII, I lived in Hazard, Kentucky where there was no radio station and television hadn't been invented yet. We saw a few fuzzy black and white pictures of the war in the newspapers, but if you wanted to see the real pictues, you went to the movies and watched the newsreels that came on before the feature. The pictures were often weeks old, but some were actually in color. They were heavily edited so that it always looked like we were winning and the Japanese and Germans were on the run. I loved the airplane pictures and the battleships plunging through heavy seas and the planes taking off from the aircraft carriers. During the Korean war, we saw a little more realistic stuff, but the blood and guts didn't really show up until the Viet Nam war. Maybe if we had had live satellite color TV in 1941, we might not have thought of war as glorious. Maybe we would have worked harder at avoiding wars.
Howard