Magic Bond, The (Part II) (1955)
1955 · Ephemeral film · 12 min
- War
Synopsis
The Veterans of Foreign Wars as a fraternal and social organization, with emphasis on their projects that benefit community life and cohesion. Directed by Robert Altman before he ceased making industrial films in Kansas City.
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Details
- Running time
- 12 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- MagicBon1955_2
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Cold War
- World War II: Veterans' affairs
- Military: Veterans
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Altman and Marbles · Wilford B. Wolf · 2003-03-27
The first five minutes of this film is a fascinating preview of Altman's filmic style. The film opens with a group of soliders in a shattered house in Europe talking and taking care of their wounded sargent. Altman's use of an ensemble cast and overlapping dialog here would become his trademark during the late 1960s and 1970s. Unfortunately, the remainder of the film falls into the didactic mode of 1950s industrial films. A war correspondant talks about how the Veterans of Foreign Wars helps fight juvenile deliquency, apathy, neglect of veterans and "smugness" by sponsoring marble tournements…
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