Okay, try this for the third time, since Youtube keeps reverting my description back to a half completed list for some reason.
I did not initially intend to compose a melancholy piece, but as the music often does, it pulled me in it's own direction. Then, wanting to post it here I felt it needed tragic images to accompany it. And since tragic images are not often found on public domain pic sites, I opted for WWII pics.
These pics are from http://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos (NARA) and are in the public domain. The numbers below are by and for NARA, but in the video the images appear in the order I have them listed.
Orchestra is EWQLSO Silver. Would like something better when I can swing it, but for now this library is all I have. That and Sam Horns, but there are no horns in this piece. For a budget library though, worth every penny.
57. "A PT marksman provides a striking camera study as he draws a bead with his 50 caliber machine gun on his boat off New Guinea." July 1943. 80-G-53871. (ww2_57.jpg)
50. Medics helping injured soldier, France, 1944. 208-YE-22. (ww2_50.jpg)
179. "This victim of Nazi inhumanity still rests in the position in which he died, attempting to rise and escape his horrible death. He was one of 150 prisoners savagely burned to death by Nazi SS troops." Sgt. E. R. Allen, Gardelegen, Germany, April 16, 1945. 111-SC-203572. (ww2_179.jpg)
51. "Private Roy Humphrey is being given blood plasma by Pfc. Harvey White, after he was wounded by shrapnel, on 9 August 1943 in Sicily." Wever. 111-SC-178198. (ww2_51.jpg)
106. "This girl pays the penalty for having had personal relations with the Germans. Here, in the Montelimar area, France, French civilians shave her head as punishment." Smith, August 29, 1944. 111-SC-193785.
112. "A lanky GI, with hands clasped behind his head, leads a file of American prisoners marching along a road somewhere on the western front. Germans captured these American soldiers during the surprise enemy drive into Allied positions." Captured German photograph, December 1944. 111-SC-198240.
144. "A member of a Marine patrol on Saipan found this family of Japs hiding in a hillside cave. The mother, four children and a dog, took shelter from the fierce fighting in that area." Cpl. Angus Robertson, June 21, 1944. 127-GR-113-83266.
77. German troops parade through Warsaw, Poland. PK Hugo J.ger, September 1939. 200-SFF-52. (ww2_77.jpg)
166. Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, December 19, 1938. 242-HLB-3609-25. (ww2_166.jpg)
78. "The tragedy of this Sudeten woman, unable to conceal her misery as she dutifully salutes the triumphant Hitler, is the tragedy of the silent millions who have been `won over' to Hitlerism by the `everlasting use' of ruthless force." Ca. 1938. 208-PP-10A-2. (ww2_78.jpg)
81. "A Frenchman weeps as German soldiers march into the French capital, Paris, on June 14, 1940, after the Allied armies had been driven back across France." 208-PP-10A-3. (ww2_81.jpg)
180. "Some of the bodies being removed by German civilians for decent burial at Gusen Concentration Camp, Muhlhausen, near Linz, Austria. Men were worked in nearby stone quarries until too weak for more, then killed." T4c. Sam Gilbert, May 12, 1945. 111-SC- 204811. (ww2_180.jpg)
183. "A German girl is overcome as she walks past the exhumed bodies of some of the 800 slave workers murdered by SS guards near Namering, Germany, and laid here so that townspeople may view the work of their Nazi leaders." Cpl. Edward Belfer. May 17, 1945. 111-SC-264895. (ww2_183.jpg)
193. "Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel, signing the ratified surrender terms for the German Army at Russian Headquarters in Berlin." Lt. Moore, Germany, May 7, 1945. 111-SC-206292.
198. "Gen. Douglas MacArthur signs as Supreme Allied Commander during formal surrender ceremonies on the USS MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay. Behind Gen. MacArthur are Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright and Lt. Gen. A. E. Percival." Lt. C. F. Wheeler, September 2, 1945. 80-G-348366.
194. "Jubilant American soldier hugs motherly English woman and victory smiles light the faces of happy service men and civilians at Piccadilly Circus, London, celebrating Germany's unconditional surrender." Pfc. Melvin Weiss, England, May 7, 1945. 111-SC-205398.
192. "Standing in the grassy sod bordering row upon row of white crosses in an American cemetery, two dungaree-clad Coast Guardsmen pay silent homage to the memory of a fellow Coast Guardsman who lost his life in action in the Ryukyu Islands." Benrud, ca. 1945. 26-G-4739.
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edward belfer, the one who took these photographs is my father...he has been gone for many years now.... did you know him?
veronicahennessy 5 months ago
@veronicahennessy Wow, sorry, no I did not. I can't imagine having lived through that. I hope this video does not offend.
Swidhelm 4 months ago
Beautiful *tear*
Bimbaboula 6 months ago
@Bimbaboula thanks :)
Swidhelm 6 months ago
very cinematic , so beautiful melody. love it.
seasea2007 7 months ago
@seasea2007 Thanks :)
Swidhelm 7 months ago