- Memory of the Camps (Memoria de los campos)
(GB-Usa, 1985) [B/N, 56 m.].
Ficha técnica.
Director: Sidney Bernstein.
Guión: Colin Wills.
Montaje: Stewart McAllister, Peter Tanner, Stephanie Tepper.
Narrador: Trevor Howard.
Serie TV. Frontline, nº 100 (7 May 1985).
Productora: Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
El
proyecto F3080 es un film inconcluso concebido por un grupo de directores británicos, entre los que se encontraba Alfred Hitchcock que, utilizando imágenes rodadas por las tropas aliadas tras la liberación de los campos de exterminio nazis, intentaron montar un documental que reflejara el horror del holocausto. El resultado fue tan demoledor que las autoridades aliadas decidieron cancelar el proyecto y secuestraron los negativos.
Los 55 minutos de material editado y el comentario escrito permanecieron ignorados en los sótanos del Imperial War Museum hasta que, en 1985, la mítica serie de TV "Frontline" lo recuperó, lo sonorizó, añadiendo el comentario leído por el actor Trevor Howard y realizó la primera emisión pública.
In 1945, camera crews went with the American and British armies in the nazis death camps and filmed the horror they found there. A group of directors among whom was Alfred Hichcock developed a script to present these horrors and be sure that people remember. Forty-eight years later it came out from the cave of the Imperial War Museum and was edited as forecast.
This film was unreleased when it was originally made in 1945 and was know only by its archival file number in the Imperial War Museum - F3080.
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Hitchcock at War.
Despite being unfit for active military service, Alfred Hitchcock was very keen to contribute to the war effort, especially after a snide comment by his former producer Michael Balcon about "plump" British directors going to Hollywood "while we who are left behind short-handed are trying to harness the films to our great national effort". Balcon's target was unmistakable, but Hitchcock was restricted by his contract with producer David O Selznick and had to remain in California for much of the war.
He managed to help, though, by shooting some footage for the short
Watchtower Over Tomorrow (US, 1941, d. John Cromwell, Harold Kress), and then by accepting an invitation from the Ministry of Information to shoot two propaganda shorts aimed at Resistance fighters.
After tortuous negotiations with Selznick, Hitchcock flew to England to make
Bon Voyage and
Aventure Malgache back-to-back between January and February 1944. The resulting films were all too characteristic of Hitchcock, in other words too suggestive and ambiguous to work as propaganda vehicles, which require a clearly-defined good-versus-evil setting to be truly effective.
As a result, Aventure Malgache was never shown at all, while Bon Voyage was only given limited screenings in France before being withdrawn. Although François Truffaut mentioned the films in passing in his seminal 1967 book on Hitchcock, they remained unshown until 1993, when they were finally released as a double bill.
Hitchcock's final contribution to the war effort was a 1945 documentary on the concentration camps, provisionally entitled F3080. Credited as "treatment advisor", Hitchcock supervised the editing of newsreel materials. However, the project was shelved during production, for forty years existing only as 55 minutes of edited footage and a written commentary. In 1985, Trevor Howard recorded the commentary and the result was shown on American television as
Memories of the Camps.
Michael Brooke,
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