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60th Anniversary 2 DVD Collector's Edition Digitally Re-mastered for an even sharper and more colorful picture!

This incredible 2 DVD Set runs 4 hours 35 minutes. Produced by Red Pepper Creative, Charlotte, NC, it has been heartily endorsed by Col. Morgan's widow, Linda.

Features widescreen transfer of the William Wyler 1943 combat documentary "The Memphis Belle" mastered in high definition. Bonus footage contrains several hours of actual film shot in the production of the Wyler film, but not used in production. Plus extensive footage of the Belle's welcome home & more!

"I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the out-takes of the documentary, especially the scenes of Col. Morgan", raves Mrs. Morgan. "Some scenes brought tears to my eyes - other left me laughing hysterically". "This is a must have for any collector!" $24.95 $2 media shipping $4 Priority Optional insurance $1.30

Both DVDs come in an attractive case called "Memories of War". The cover of the Memphis Belle DVD is signed by the WWII pilot of the Belle, Col. Robert Morgan.

The 1943 combat documentary "Memphis Belle" was filmed in real combat by William Wyler, a famous Hollywood director sent to the European theater to make a training film. Filmed in color, The Memphis Belle has long been held up as a "model" wartime documentary. In a terse, exciting 43 minutes, the film assembles footage from several allied bombing missions into one single representative flight of the famed flying fortress known as the Memphis Belle. Hollywood director William Wyler flew five combat missions on the Belle to get the footage. He also gave out 200 cameras to other B-17 crews & asked them to film when they weren’t firing their guns. Though both the crewman and the belle documentary dvd_a.JPG (88113 bytes)

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filmmakers take consierable pride in the fact that the Belle has completed 25 successful missions, there’s no phony heroism, no grandstanding, no flagwaving. As calm-voiced narrator Ed Kern explains, the Belle has a job to do, and it does it, and that’s all. The danger facing the B-17’s is underlined, but never overemphasized by brief glimpses of those doomed ships that didn’t make it back. The overall excellence of the Memphis Belle is even more obvious when compared to the fictionalized 1990 Hollywood version of the Belle’s 25^th mission.

Was the first entry in the U.S. War Dept’s "Why We Fight" series, a group of seven morale-boosting documentaries supervised by Lt. Col. Frank Prelude to War dvd_a.JPG (71090 bytes)

Capra. As brilliantly assembled as any of Capra’s "populist" Hollywood films, Prelude demonstrates how the diplomats & political blunders made in the wake of WWI led inexorably to WWII. Especially culpable are those complacent citizens of the USA who were led to believe that the problems of the rest of the world had no bearing on their lives. While America sleeps, Japan & Germany slowly and methodically build their armies and launch their plans for global conquest. Throughout the film, the lies of fascism and totalitarianism are contrasted with the ideals of Democracy. Unlike most War Dept. documentaries, Why We Fight – 53 minutes – and the Memphis Belle were shown to military & civilian audiences.