Spanish Civil War - Year 12 2004

As part of International Culture Week 2004, Year 12 historians designed a visual documentary on the subject of the Spanish Civil War. The documentary uses 68 carefully selected photos and short archive video clips, one image for each year since the war began in 1936. Displayed on four screens simultaneously and asynchronously, the six minute film is a chronicle of the war that attempts to tell a human story without the limitation of words.The film opens with scenes of hope in Madrid's Puerta del Sol in 1936 and then progresses chronologically though to a conclusion of refugees fleeing across the French border. Along the way, major events (the battle for Madrid, the bombing of Guernica) are interlaced with scenes of everyday life that tell the social history of the war. In this story, the famous names (Orwell, Hemingway et al) are almost indistinguishable from the peasants and workers they fight alongside. Entitled 'War Without End', the film loops continually in recognition of the legacy of a war which in Toulouse, as much as anywhere, remains as important today as ever. The film's only colour image is a photograph taken in summer of 2003 at the cemetery and memorial to the International Brigaders who died at Le Vernet 'internment' camp, a short drive south from Toulouse.

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• Toulouse

[giubril]

From information gathered in Libya in 1970, the bombing of Guernica was designed by a libyan pilot who had bombed the oasis of Cyrenaica.This pilot (nom de guerre "Baby Jesus") had been called to Berlin to teach riders the Legion Condor "like sending a panic by air."

[alanbstard4]

@swfcocs1 but the republicans wanted the Monarchy out and they were murdering Christian clerics. Franco had every obligation to deal with them

[swfcocs1]

@alanbstard4Why is it "commo crap"? the popular front govt in Spain was democratically elected in 1936 and Franco then initiated a fascist uprising.The other democratic European govts,in the first act of appeasement of fascism,refused to help their fellow democrats.The republican govt only turned to Stalin for help when the fascists were literally at Madrid`s gates.Franco,upon seizing a town,killed not only communists but anarchists,socialists,liberals­,feminists,atheists,artists and journalists.

[alanbstard4]

years 12 historians means year 12 high school students being intellectually damaged and lied to by the extreme left scum

International culture week my arse. LOL Typical commo crap

[salinagrrrl69]

Listen to the images. They will make all the sound needed. Is this the future of the USA. There were two rallies of the Wash DC mall. Someday they may together make images like these.

[hadock2004]

I really think that producer is a a bit RED. Better with no sound.

[TheTollundWoman]

Why is there no sound? It looks like a very interesting video though :D

[OopeeShaba]

Winona Ryder is Spock's mom?

[klomckin]

where is the sound

[smartsug2002]

No sound