October 9, 1998
World War II in Film: What Is the Color of Reality?
In the obituary of the press magnate that opens Citizen Kane, Orson Welles commented on the counterintuitive relationship between film and reality: Although life is in color, black-and-white looks more realistic. The remark applies in spades to the film footage of World War II -- almost all of it black and white, every frame seeming to glow with the aura of historical truth.
Yet after a half-century of viewing
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