{"id":10485,"date":"2018-01-07T08:43:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T12:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=10485"},"modified":"2018-02-09T02:38:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T06:38:34","slug":"cine-coverage-of-d-day-landing-in-ww2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/cine-coverage-of-d-day-landing-in-ww2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cine coverage of D-Day landing in WW2 &#8211; the saga continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10487\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/D-DAY-LANDING-AT-BERNIERE-SUR-MER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10487\" class=\"wp-image-10487 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/D-DAY-LANDING-AT-BERNIERE-SUR-MER-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">D-Day Landing at Berniere sur Mer, France<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0The story of the cine coverage of the D-Day Landings in France has taken a final twist.\u00a0 Editor of <em>Photographic Canadiana<\/em>, Robert Lansdale, has confirmed that video images are from three boats and by automatic cameras mounted on the LCA landing craft. Little is ever mentioned that film clips, seen in newsreels and videos, are by the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit and the men seen disembarking are Canadians soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>It been long believed that the film was by one photographer, Sgt. Bill Grant, who came ashore with the Queen\u2019s Own Rifles. Other cameramen had their cameras drowned or made inoperable with sand.\u00a0 American coverage was destroyed when the boat carrying it to England was swamped.<\/p>\n<p>John Eckersley of Vancouver, a military history buff, has long contended that films show three boats \u2013 not one.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Conlin in his book \u201c<em>War Through the Lens: The Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit<\/em>\u201d now mentions that 15 automatic cine cameras were borrowed from the American\u00a0 Army and mounted as \u201cstick-on cameras\u201d to the gunnels of the landing craft.<\/p>\n<p>Lansdale\u2019s analyses of single frames plucked from the videos confirms that the coverage was from three distinct boats and all three cameras were mounted on the side gunnel.<br \/>\nArmy film editors would grab the sharpest or steadiest images. So we can\u2019t say that coverage was not retrieved from photographers on board. Their hand-held films would have the \u201cjitters\u201d. 16mm release prints were rushed to New York as newsreels. Only these survive today as all original negatives were destroyed in a fire later in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PC-Vol-43-2-D-DAY-LANDINGS-IN-FRANCE.pdf\">If you would care to read the whole story as it appears in <em>Photographic Canadiana<\/em> 43-2 , click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. \u00a0The story of the cine coverage of the D-Day Landings in France has taken a final twist.\u00a0 Editor of Photographic Canadiana, Robert Lansdale, has confirmed that video images are from three boats and by automatic cameras mounted on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/cine-coverage-of-d-day-landing-in-ww2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1670,296,1399,1669],"class_list":["post-10485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-berniere-sur-mer","tag-cine","tag-d-day","tag-landing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10485"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10758,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions\/10758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}