Filming the Camps, from Hollywood to Nuremberg: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens Exhibition in Los Angeles, California

Sunday, August 27, 2017 Monday, April 30, 2018

Hollywood directors John Ford, George Stevens, and Samuel Fuller entertained audiences with American cinema classics like The Grapes of Wrath, Shane, and The Big Red One. But their most important contribution to history was their work in the U.S. Armed Forces and Secret Services, filming the realities of war and the liberation of Nazi concentration camps.

Their documentation provides an essential visual record of the WWII. Filming the Camps presents rare footage of the liberation of Dachau with detailed notes from the directors, narratives describing burials at Falkenau, and the documentary produced as evidence at the Nuremberg trials, among other historical material. Now, this material is being made available to a general audience in the U.S.

The exhibition, curated by historian and film director Christian Delage, was designed, created, and distributed by the Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris, France), and made possible through the generous support of SNCF.
This presentation was made possible through the support of the Consulate General of France in Houston, the Embassy of France in the United States, and SNCF.

Events around the exhibition:

EXhibit opening

Sunday, August 27, 2017, 4:00–6:00 pm – At Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Speakers:

Beth Kean, Executive Director, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Matthieu Clouvel, Deputy Consul General of France in Los Angeles

Samantha Fuller, Daughter of Samuel Fuller and Director, "A Fuller Life"

Christian Delage, Historian and Curator of the Exhibition

Jacques Fredj, Executive Director, Shoah Memorial

This event is free and open to the public. Click here to view or download the invitation.

EDUCATORS WORKSHOP

Sunday, August 27, 2017, 9:30am–3:30pm – At Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

A free workshop for teachers and educators organized by the Shoah Memorial and hosted by the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, with the support of the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles, the Embassy of France in the United States, 20th Century Fox, the Alliance Française de Los Angeles, the Alliance Française of Pasadena, and SNCF.

This workshop is organized in conjunction with the presentation of "Filming the Camps, from Hollywood to Nuremberg: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens" at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, an exhibition curated by historian and film director Christian Delage, designed, created, and distributed by the Shoah Memorial (Paris, France), and made possible through the generous support of SNCF.

Click here to download the program for the workshop.

screening

Wednesday, August 30, 2017, 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. At Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust 

De-Hollywood-a-NurembergA film by Christian Delage.
Introduction and Q&A with the director and curator of the exhibition.

Hollywood directors John Ford, George Stevens, and Samuel Fuller entertained audiences with cinema classics like The Grapes of Wrath, Shane, and The Big Red One. But their most important contribution to history may have been their work in the U.S. Armed Forces and Secret Services, filming the realities of war and the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. Their documentation provides an essential visual record of the WWII. Combining a wealth of rare material, including private letters and footage from their own personal archives, From Hollywood to Nuremberg explores these filmmakers’ experiences during and after the Second World War, their confrontation with Nazi atrocities, and the mark that left on them as artists. Read More...

public reading

Thursday, August 31, 2017 – 4:00pm – At Social Sciences Building, Room 250

The Place of the Witness: From the Holocaust to the November 13th Attacks in Paris

A public lecture by Christian Delage (Director of the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent, Paris)

Filmmaker and historian Christian Delage has more than 20 years of experience in researching and making films about genocide, including a renowned documentary on the Nuremberg trials. Delage led a research team to film testimonies of the women and men who lived through the night of the 2015 Paris and St. Denis attacks during which 130 people were killed in a series of coordinated jihadist attacks. Delage is also the curator of Filming the Camps exhibition on display at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust from August 27, 2017 to April 30, 2018.

Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to cagr@usc.edu.

Co-sponsored by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the USC Francophone Research & Resource Center.

Social Sciences Building, Room 250
3502 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089

Photo: Set photograph during the filming of "December 7th," Pearl Harbor, 1942 © National Archives, Washington D.C.

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
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Los Angeles, California 90036

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WORKSHOP

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