The True Story of the Civil War

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The True Story of the Civil War
Film poster
Directed by	Louis Clyde Stoumen
Written by	Abram D. Murray
Produced by	Louis Clyde Stoumen Kathrine Dana Shaw
Narrated by	Raymond Massey
Edited by	Louis Clyde Stoumen
Music by	Ernest Gold Elmer Bernstein (supervisor)
Production company	Camera Eye Pictures Inc.^[1]
Distributed by	Times Film Corporation
Release date	1956 (1956)
Running time	29 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The True Story of the Civil War is a 1956 American short documentary film directed by Louis Clyde Stoumen.

Technique

In a 1961 letter to The New York Times, the photographer-filmmaker surveyed earlier uses of the technique of moving still images by himself and others:

“Curt Oertel made his ‘Michaelangelo,’ with important storytelling use of still material, in 1940 (released as Robert Flaherty’s ‘The Titan’ around 1949). Belgium’s Henri Starc began imparting dramatic film form to still images in 1936, and his lyric ‘World of Paul Delvaux’ (1947) is an acknowledged classic. Paul Haesaerts made ‘Rubens’ in 1948. Americans Paul Falkenberg and Lewis Jacobs made ‘Lincoln Speaks at Gettysburg’ entirely out of nineteenth-century engravings, 1950. Ben Berg and Herbert Block of Hollywood have for years been making a series of story-telling dramas out of paintings and prints, including a life story of Goya. I myself pioneered the dramatic use of still photographs (rather than paintings or prints) in a story-telling sequence for Arch Oboler’s 1950 Columbia feature ‘Five,’ and have for more than a decade continued development of this form—in my independent feature ‘The Naked Eye’ (1956), the featurette ‘The True Story of the Civil War’ (an Academy Award winner, 1956), Warner Brothers’ ‘The James Dean Story’ (1957), and most recently...for...ABC-TV’s ‘Winston Churchill, the Valiant Years.”^[2]

Legacy

In 1957, it won an Oscar for Documentary Short Subject at the 29th Academy Awards.^[3] The Academy Film Archive preserved The True Story of the Civil War in 2005.^[4]

References

^ FilmAffinity
^ “Television Mailbag.” New York Times, 2 July 1961.
^ "The 29th Academy Awards (1957) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.

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