Sentences with phrase «newsreel war footage»

At a climactic concert at a party, rows of listeners can be seen gliding off in separate directions as if on separate mind journeys, and in a much earlier surreal sequence featuring newsreel war footage in a cafe, the narrator, reading a letter, can be seen rising with his chair like a film director seated on a crane, all the way to the top of the room, where he encounters his own childhood self running a projector — an image that might be traced, like much else, to one of Proust's extended descriptive passages.

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Using a wealth of sources — from interviews to newsreels to documentary footage of the conflict at home and abroad — Davis constructs a powerfully affecting portrait of the disastrous effects of war.

The film begins with black - and - white newsreel footage of the war's end, cutting to a similarly toned image of Elizabeth's observant face.

Woody Vasulka, Art of Memory, 1987 36 min, color, sound In Art of Memory, Woody Vasulka superimposes newsreel footage of war over the landscape of the American Southwest in his investigation of collective memory and trauma.

Exposing the global commoditization of fear, Grimonprez blends archival footage of early 60's Folgers coffee ads, hysterical Red Menace newsreels, and Alfred Hitchcock's TV intros, with an imaginary murder plot involving Hitchcock and his doppelganger, to paint a vivid portrait of American media run amuck during the Cold War.