Daniel
Ankar's Imaginary Witness: Hollywood & the Holocaust
by Jay Blotcher
...One
might be tempted to spare Hollywood yet another trip to the
woodshed, if it were not for one salient episode explained
in Anker’s film: when the camps were liberated, General
Eisenhower invited Hollywood directors to document the proceedings
that the world might know of the depth of man’s cruelty.
The directors dutifully went and the resulting newsreels depicting
skeletal survivors and mountains of corpses were screened
in moviehouses across America. But the shocking footage was
soon withdrawn and Hollywood’s collective promise to
further memorialize the Nazi exterminations never materialized.
IMAGINARY WITNESS: HOLLYWOOD AND THE HOLOCAUST shows at Upstate
Films in Rhinebeck. Dec 7-13. Visit www.upstatefilms.org
for show times. Special screening on Sunday December 9 at
1pm, followed by appearance by director Dan Anker and/or co-producer
Susan Kim. Event co-sponsored by Temple Beth-El. $30 admission
includes a kosher box lunch. Call (845) 454-0570 for reservations...
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