- Memorandum (film)
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Memorandum is a one-hour 1965 documentary co-directed by Donald Brittain and John Spotton, following a Jewish Holocaust survivor on an emotional pilgrimage back to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Produced by John Kemeny for the National Film Board of Canada, the film received several awards including a Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival.[1] Considered by many critics to be Brittain's finest work, the film’s title refers to Hitler’s memorandum about the “final solution.”[2]
A detailed analysis of the film's structure is available in Ken Dancyger's The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory and Practice. [3]
References
- ^ "Memorandum". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=10552. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
- ^ "Donald Brittain". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Film Reference Library. http://www.filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=46&csid1=9&navid=46. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
- ^ Dancyger, Ken (2002). "Analysis of documentary sequences: Memorandum". The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory and Practice (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Elsevier. pp. 302–314. ISBN 0-240-80420-1. http://books.google.ca/books?id=RFszBZIqf40C&pg=PA302&lpg=PA302&dq=Memorandum+Brittain&source=bl&ots=uy5QEKvu4F&sig=g5zP-_j-7xHzaCr8db4aLlM4RPo&hl=en&ei=0mjPSo3ICY-SMabAvZQD&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=Memorandum%20Brittain&f=false.
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- Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
- 1965 films
- Films directed by Donald Brittain
- National Film Board of Canada documentaries
- English-language films
- Black-and-white documentary films
- Documentary films about the Holocaust
- 1960s documentary films
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