what was that film again?

[Henry M]

I believe I have a Hitchcock produced piece somewhere. I'll check 
tonight.

On 26 Feb 97 at 11:28, Niall Martin wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 

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