Let There Be Light (1946)

[Dave Monroe]

Let There Be Light (1946)
Producer: U.S. Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps.
Director: John Huston. Writers: Charles Kaufman and John Huston.

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Running Time: 58 minutes.


John Huston’s World War II documentary Let There Be Light is so
legendary for its censorship controversy that its sheer power as a
film has been easy to miss. Produced by the U.S. Army in 1945, it
pioneered unscripted interview techniques to take an unprecedented
look into the psychological wounds of war. However, by the time the
film was first allowed a public screening—in December 1980—its
remarkable innovations in style and subject, which in the 1940s were
at least a decade ahead of their time, could be taken as old hat,
especially because of the poor quality of then-available prints. This
new restoration finally reveals the film’s full force

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