Memorandum (film)

Memorandum
Memorandum
Directed by	Donald Brittain; John Spotton;
Written by	Donald Brittain
Produced by	John Kemeny
Starring	Bernard Laufer; Emil Bednarek; Wilhelm Boger; Arthur Breitwieser;
Cinematography	John Spotton
Edited by	John Spotton
Production; company	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	25 September 1967 (New York Film Festival);
Running time	58 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

Memorandum is a one-hour 1965 documentary co-directed by Donald Brittain and John Spotton, following Bernard Laufer, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, on an emotional pilgrimage back to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Produced by John Kemeny for the National Film Board of Canada, the film received several awards including a Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival.^[1] Considered by many critics to be Brittain's finest work, the film’s title refers to Hitler’s memorandum about the “final solution.”^[2]

A detailed analysis of the film's structure is available in Ken Dancyger's The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory and Practice.^[3]

References

^ "Memorandum". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
^ "Donald Brittain". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Film Reference Library. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
^ Dancyger, Ken (2002). "Analysis of documentary sequences: Memorandum". The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory and Practice (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Elsevier. pp. 302–314. ISBN 0-240-80420-1.

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[NFB_collection-1] "Memorandum". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 2009-10-09.

[CFE-2] "Donald Brittain". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Film Reference Library. Retrieved 2009-10-09.

[Dancyger-3] Dancyger, Ken (2002). "Analysis of documentary sequences: Memorandum". The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory and Practice (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Elsevier. pp. 302–314. ISBN 0-240-80420-1.

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