Summary
Heroes All is a 1920 American World War I documentary film that was released by the American Red Cross.
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| Language | Silent |
Description edit
The film examines returning wounded World War I veterans and their treatment at Walter Reed Hospital, along with visits to iconic Washington, D.C., landmarks. The Red Cross Bureau of Pictures produced more than 100 films, including Heroes All, from 1917 to 1921, which are invaluable historical and visual records of the era with footage from World War I and its aftermath.[1]
Several Red Cross cinematographers achieved notable film careers, including Ernest Schoedsack, later producer of Grass (1925), Chang (1927), and King Kong (1933), and A. Farciot Edouart, the latter becoming a special effects cinematographer for Paramount Pictures from the 1920s to the 1950s. According to Internet Movie Database, a sound version was prepared in 1931.
In 2009, Heroes All was named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant.[2][3][4]
References edit
- ^ Veeder, Gerry K. (1990), "The Red Cross Bureau of Pictures, 1917–1921: World War I, the Russian Revolution and the Sultan of Turkey's Harem", Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 10: 1, 47 — 70. doi:10.1080/01439689000260031
- ^ "Thriller and 24 Other Films Named to National Film Registry", Associated Press via Yahoo News (December 30, 2009) Archived January 6, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
- ^ "Michael Jackson, the Muppets and Early Cinema Tapped for Preservation in 2009 Library of Congress National Film Registry". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
External links edit
- Heroes All essay by Gerry Veeder, Ph.D. on the National Film Registry website [1]
- Heroes All essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy, 2009-2010: A Viewer's Guide to the 50 Landmark Movies Added To The National Film Registry in 2009–10, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2011, ISBN 1441120025 pages 22–26 [2]
- Heroes All at IMDb
