It documented the people who were truly the victims and suffering the most during WWII. The film chose to focus on the ugly side of war instead of glorifying it. Night and Fog was also unique for me because it showed a great contrast between the other war movies we watched from around that time such as Triumph of the Will and Listen to Britain. Perhaps the most disturbing part of the entire film for me was seeing the images of the gas chambers with all of the scratch marks on the concrete walls and ceilings and hearing about what the prisoners had to endure in the camp “hospitals.” This just goes to prove the powerful impact of indexical images can have on the audience to really transport them to another time and place. According to Barnouw, these shifts bring us “again and again from postcard colors of a postwar tourist world to the black-and-white staring eyes, the barely stirring skeletons, the line-ups of the naked, and the ovens, give the film a greater impact than any other such film had achieved” (180).
The color shots show what the deserted concentration camps looked like 10 years after the war ended make it difficult to imagine the atrocities that had once happened there, until you are faced the truth as black and white images and footage of concentration camps’ during the war. Night and Fog is also incredibly powerful because of the alternation between color and black and white shots. Ernesto Guevara was born to Ernesto Guevara Lynch and Celia de la Serna y Llosa, on 14 June 1928, in Rosario, Argentina.Although the legal name on his birth certificate was 'Ernesto Guevara', his name sometimes appears with 'de la Serna' and/or 'Lynch' accompanying it. The images of the gas chambers, hospitals, skeletal-looking people that had been starved for months and the day-to-day moments captured of the concentration camps display the raw injustice of what was happening at that time. These indexical images are powerful because they “bear the same appearance as what we would have seen had we been there because the cinematic image is a document of how these individuals appeared at the moment when there were filmed during and at the end of WWII” (Nichols, 35).
Documentary with color war footage free#
Seeing the war through the ubiquitous black-and-white footage has always made. All are public domain and available free online. In the 1980s determined researchers began scouring the world for color film shot during World War II, and the result of their quest is spectacular. Night and Fog was a revolutionary documentary when it premiered for several reasons, particularly for its juxtaposition of modern day images of concentration camps in color and for the black and white footage shot during the Holocaust which showed unnerving images of prisoners in the camps. War Documentary hosted by Edward Herrmann, published by History Channel in 2000 - English narration Cover Information. Alain Resnais’ 1955 film Night and Fog showed the world the grotesque and disturbing images of WWII in a way that hadn’t ever been done before.
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