Beachhead to Berlin
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This short film shows the Normandy landings in World War II. It uses real footage shot by Coast Guard photographers. A chaplain narrates the events as if writing a letter home.
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What happens
Beachhead to Berlin is a 21-minute Technicolor film about the Normandy landings, a Vitaphone short produced by Warner Bros. and released on December 15, 1944. The film makes extensive use of documentary footage of preparations and the beach landings shot by U.S. Coast Guard photographers. The fictionalized framing device is a Coast Guard chaplain's voice-over narration of a V-mail letter home. The film has been preserved and was digitized by the U.S. National Archives. Some of the beach landing footage was recorded by USCG Chief Photographer's Mate David T. Ruley at Omaha Beach in the vicinity of Easy Red sector, at about the same time as Robert Capa took his D-Day photos first published in Life magazine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Dunkirk (2017)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.