Filming the Camps, from Hollywood to Nuremberg: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens

George Stevens and his team, France, 1944 © Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, CA

“Shooting in the camps, from Hollywood to Nuremberg: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens”.

The exhibition produced by the Shoah Memorial, which will be presented to the public at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, aims to show a little known part of the work of the three great American directors.

These directors produced great films such as “The Grapes of Wrath” (Ford), made before World War II, and later “Man in the Lost Valleys” (Stevens) and “Beyond Glory” (Fuller), after spending time under uniform in Europe.

They filmed the daily life of war and the opening of concentration camps. Their images are an essential visual testimony to the reality of the Second World War. The film editing their shoots shows, in particular, images of the opening of the Dachau camp accompanied by written notes from the directors.

projection

Wednesday, August 10, 2017 from 7pm to 9pm
From Hollywood to Nuremberg, John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Steven

In the presence of the curator and documentary film director Christian Delage.

Conference

Thursday 31 August 2017 from 16h to 18h

University of Southern California (USC)
SOS (Social Sciences Building) /room 205
3502 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles CA 90089