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How Hollywood Does It is a look at the history, techniques, movements and people who create the magic of motion pictures. Documentary talks about some of the different styles of documentary filmmaking from the birth of cinema to the present day. It is a multi-part look at the history, techniques, movements, and people who create the magic that we call motion pictures. Today's program will talk about a style of filmmaking outside of the normal fiction...
2) Elektra
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Richard Strauss' one-act opera, Elektra, may be the bloodiest ever written. Based on the classic Greek tragedy, the story centers on Elektra, who is bent on killing her mother, Klytaemnestra, who in turn killed her father, King Agamemnon.
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The endeavor, innovation and technological breakthroughs of the first half of the 20th century are illustrated through newsreel footage and the 1950s narration of the original Time to Remember documentary series. This episode includes footage of tanks on the battlefields of the Great War; Scott's expedition to Antarctica; Mallory and Irvine on Everest; Roosevelt at the Boulder Dam; and a car testing its very necessary roll-bar.
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This episode offers an insight into the ways women's roles in society changed through the first five decades of the 20th century. Joyce Grenfell and Dame Edith Evans are the narrators and the archive footage features suffragette protests, including Emily Davison at the 1913 Derby; working women during the First World War; Suzanne Lenglen playing tennis; and a sample of 1920s and 30s fashions.
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This episode tells the story of the struggle to maintain peace in the decades after the Great War. The politicians' high hopes for improved international relations through the League of Nations were gradually eroded by expansionism and aggression across the globe. Includes footage of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles; the first Armistice Day parade in 1919; Ramsay MacDonald addressing the League of Nations in 1924; Neville Chamberlain's visits...
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This episode tells the story of the groundbreaking men, women and machines who, on land and sea and in the air, went furthest and fastest in the first half of the 20th century. Includes footage of Malcolm Campbell in Bluebird; the first Monaco Grand Prix; the Spitfire; Amelia Earhart; and Jean Batten, the first person to simultaneously hold the solo flight records between the UK and Australia in both directions.
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Lesley Sharp narrates this episode, which illustrates the scale of the sacrifice made by ordinary people during the 20th century's two world wars. With footage of recruitment and training for the Great War; soldiers going over the top in the trenches; celebrations at the end of World War One; the evacuation of 300,000 men from Dunkirk in 1940; Hurricanes taking off during the Battle of Britain, and the London Blitz.
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This volume deals with the third part of 1941. It covers events on all the German fronts including: Western Front--destroyers and torpedo boats escort German convoys in the English Channel; North African Front--Rommel decorates his soldiers; Eastern Front--the battle for Roslaw; Home Front--Hitler and Mussolini inspect the front line troops, Belgian and Danish volunteers are sworn in at Hamburg.
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