Lectures in history, with top College Professor developing into americas past. And our new series, real america, featuring archival government and educational films from the 1930s through the 70s. Cspan3, created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. Watch us in hd like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. During this Holiday Season we are showing you American History programs. Today, we are focusing on our series, reel america. Next, the first of two profiles of american film directors and the Second World War. We will start with a look at frank capras work and focus on George Stevens. Later, its director john ford and his movie the battle of midway. Each week, American History tvs reel america brings you archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. In the first of a fivepart look at hollywood directors who made films for the u. S. Government during world war ii we feature frank capra who made and supervised dozens of films
He actually came up doing laurel and hardy silent shorts and then once sound came in he did everything from swing time, one of the best fred astaire and Ginger Rogers movies to wochlt year with Katherine Hepburn and spencer tracy. Each of these movies had reasons for directors going in. For stevens, who like all of the directors was old enough so he could have gotten a civilian exemption from the war, really wanted what he called a seat on the 50 yard line of history. He felt that it was a patriotic duty to go. He had been chafing in hollywood because he felt pigeonholed into making these very light movies when he had wanted to make some films with more contemporary or warrelated content. And when he was wasnt able to do it at rko or columbia, he jumped at the chance to do it in the army and for the army. Interestingly, of the five directors, stevens is the only one who never made a sort of freestanding documentary during the war that was shown to civilian audiences, but his work in th
And a 93yearold wants to try something new. Great grandma going to smoke doobie. I want to rip a fold. If you sit there and think about the statistical probabilities of survival when it comes to certain situations, i wouldnt leave the house. Some videos show a one in a million. The mop moped coming across. She is underneath the car. You see a policeman coming from the right hand side. I saw what happened there there are 20, 30 people in that area and they are going to help this woman. Using brute force they lift this car up off the woman. She gets pulled out from underneath and taken to a local hospital where she is recovering from injuries. Im surprised this even happen considering how slow that car was going and clearly there was traffic going the under way. I dont understand this one. Lucky for her all those people were ready to jump in. Another crazy video from russia. Its just going to come out of nowhere. The odds of survival being so random. Watch the pedestrian on the left hand
And a 93yearold wants to try something new. Great grandma going to smoke doobie. I want to rip a fold. If you sit there and think about the statistical probabilities of survival when it comes to certain situations, i wouldnt leave the house. Some videos show a one in a million. The mop moped coming across. She is underneath the car. You see a policeman coming from the right hand side. I saw what happened there there are 20, 30 people in that area and they are going to help this woman. Using brute force they lift this car up off the woman. She gets pulled out from underneath and taken to a local hospital where she is recovering from injuries. Im surprised this even happen considering how slow that car was going and clearly there was traffic going the under way. I dont understand this one. Lucky for her all those people were ready to jump in. Another crazy video from russia. Its just going to come out of nowhere. The odds of survival being so random. Watch the pedestrian on the left hand
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