what was that film again?

[Niall Martin]

While we're still agonizing over celluloid holocausts I wonder if there's
anyone who can substantiate an episode which I'd assumed was common
knowledge but now that I try to find a reference seems to have come over all
phantasmagoric. I'm convinced that there was one famous auteur who actually
followed the Allies into the death camps with the intention of making a film
of Nazi War Atrocities (presumably government sponsored) but as the body
count grew higher the project inevitably ground to a halt. I can still see a
b/w photo of jeep with movie camera on tripod with its path literally
blocked by a heap of bodies. 

Initially thought the auteur in question was Welles but, that's just silly,
then checked out Grierson and the GPO film unit, more likely but, no luck.
Same w. David Lean, Powell & Pressburger, all the usual suspects ..... so
doubting my faculties I now appeal to the erudition of the list ... am I mad
or have revisionist historians been rearranging my bookshelves?


Niall Martin