{"id":82051,"date":"2019-05-29T17:30:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T21:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82051"},"modified":"2019-05-29T18:53:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T22:53:02","slug":"ap-rare-color-footage-brings-d-day-memories-alive-75-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82051","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Rare color footage brings D-Day memories alive, 75 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-five years ago, Hollywood director George Stevens stood on the deck of the HMS Belfast to film the start of the D-Day invasion.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting black-and-white films \u2014 following Allied troops through Normandy, the liberation of Paris, Battle of the Bulge, the horror of the Dachau concentration camp \u2014 form the basis of Americans\u2019 historical memory of World War II, and were even used as evidence in Nazi war crimes trials.<\/p>\n<p>But the director was also shooting 16-millimeter color film for himself of the same events, creating a kind of personal video journal of his experiences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/242431e76789468baeced9e39e60a5f0\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4cKNi1u0A0\">https:\/\/t.co\/4cKNi1u0A0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob Wainess (@human156) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/human156\/status\/1133835846577115136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-five years ago, Hollywood director George Stevens stood on the deck of the HMS Belfast to film the start of the D-Day invasion. The resulting black-and-white films \u2014 following Allied troops through Normandy, the liberation of Paris, Battle of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82051\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-military-armed-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82053,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82051\/revisions\/82053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}