Army Pictorial Service - San Pietro (1945)
Army Pictorial Service - San Pietro (1945)
DVDRip | 718 x 480 | .MKV/AVC @ 2998 Kbps | 32 min 10 s | 747 MB
Audio: English AC-3 192 Kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary
DVDRip | 718 x 480 | .MKV/AVC @ 2998 Kbps | 32 min 10 s | 747 MB
Audio: English AC-3 192 Kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary
John Huston's World War II documentary on the battle of San Pietro is easily up to the high standard that he set with his numerous classic dramas. It is impressive in describing both the events and the atmosphere of a desperate and costly struggle, and it is memorable in preserving its effect on those who had to live through it. Even on a purely historical level, this would serve as a valuable description of one stage in the grueling Italian campaign, one of the war's least-remembered and least glamorous aspects.
The narration is very efficient in detailing what the battle was about, what happened, and why it happened. It puts everything into the perspective of the war as a whole, and it also provides a look at the nature of the Allies' slow, grueling, costly progress up the Italian peninsula. On a dramatic level, it is even more effective and memorable. Without forcing anything, without resorting to ploys of any kind, it brings you into the world of the unfortunate foot soldiers on whose backs and blood the fate of the battle rested. Huston's narration is flawless, using evenly measured tones to describe events in such a way as to allow them and the pictures of them to speak for themselves - and they speak in a powerful way. Most of the footage must have been taken at considerable risk, and while there is nothing fancy about the techniques, it's impressive how much it captures. The soldiers slowly crawling along rocky heights, the pounding of heavy artillery, the frightened civilians hiding in caves, and much more, are all vividly captured. It's hard to think of another documentary then or now that succeeds so well at what it set out to do.
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00:00:00.000 : Chapter 1
00:01:43.937 : Chapter 2
00:08:10.039 : Chapter 3
00:12:08.027 : Chapter 4
00:20:29.778 : Chapter 5
00:26:37.312 : Chapter 6
00:32:09.093 : Chapter 7
Unique ID : 15688141610519539178477511569085880964 (0xBCD6D19794831CCF30D6C7B90E8DA84)
Complete name : San.Pietro.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 747 MiB
Duration : 32 min 10 s
Overall bit rate : 3 245 kb/s
Writing application : HandBrake 0.9.8
Writing library : libmkv 0.6.5
Video
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Format : AVC
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Bit rate : 2 988 kb/s
Width : 718 pixels
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Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Original display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Variable
Color space : YUV
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Bit depth : 8 bits
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Duration : 32 min 10 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 spf)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 44.2 MiB (6%)
Language : English
Service kind : Complete Main
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Menu
00:00:00.000 : Chapter 1
00:01:43.937 : Chapter 2
00:08:10.039 : Chapter 3
00:12:08.027 : Chapter 4
00:20:29.778 : Chapter 5
00:26:37.312 : Chapter 6
00:32:09.093 : Chapter 7
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Army Pictorial Service - San Pietro (1945)
Army Pictorial Service - San Pietro (1945)
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