VOA慢速英語:諾曼底登陸的有色鏡頭

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Most of the films made of the D-Day invasion are inblack and white. A group of Army cinematographers --people who shoot movies -- filmed the invasion from aBritish ship. The group was led by 37-year-oldHollywood director George Stevens. But Mr. Stevenswas also making personal movies, using his own 16-millimeter camera and what at that time was still-rareKodachrome color film.

Mr. Stevens developed the color films, but never usedthem. Many years later his son -- George Stevens Jr.,also a film director -- found the films and repaired them. In 1994, on the 50th anniversary of D-Day, he releaseda documentary film using the color movies. For the firsttime, we can see the color of the sky, the sea, thesoldiers’ clothing, smoke from the big ships’ guns --even the color of the ships’ paint.

“I had this feeling that my eyes were the first eyes that hadn’t been there whowere seeing this day in color, and I watched this film unfold and on this ship -- and all of these men with their flak jackets and anticipation of this day.”

Rare Color Footage of D-Day Invasion

The color film also shows destroyed French towns and French citizenswelcoming Allied soldiers. And it has rare scenes of the liberation of Paris,along with images of French resistance leader and later French presidentCharles De Gaulle.

There are also images of the famous U.S. General George Patton and Britishforces commander General Bernard Montgomery. German prisoners of warare also shown, perhaps happy they have survived the attack.

Mr. Stevens entered Germany with Allied forces. He filmed the Naziconcentration camps, showing many dead bodies lying next to still-burningovens, where the Nazis sent people to die. He must have believed that thosecolors should be saved and shown to the world, as well.

“It is the greatest body of color film, and World War II was a black-and-whitewar. That’s how we see it. That’s how we saw it.”

I’m Christopher Cruise