Alfred Hitchcocks "Memory of the Camps"

In 1945, Hitchcock served as "treatment advisor" (in effect, a film editor) for a Holocaust documentary produced by the British Army. The film, which recorded the liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps, remained unreleased until 1985, when it was completed by PBS Frontline and distributed under the title Memory of the Camps.

The Hitchcock Documentary on The Nazi Holocaust [at the Belsen Camp]: is a 53-minute film the British and is one of Hitchcock’s unfinished projects. “Memory of the Camps” was intended primarily for German audiences. According to Patrick McGilligan, in his excellent "Alfred Hitchcock -- A Life in Darkness and Light," Hitchcock finished about 55 minutes before funding was suspended, after qualms by the British military command and foreign office and the U.S. State Department. When it was shown publicly in 1984, music critic and columnist Norman Lebrecht called the uncompleted film "Truth at its most naked." "

Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball

"Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball" was written and recorded in 1948 by Buddy Johnson, and released again in 1949 by the Count Basie orchestra.

This is the first of the Go Get Your Voice songs from and about the early civil rights movement. For the Dodgers to sign an African-American man to play on their major league team took courage and foresight. The color walls were slowly beginning to come down and the Dodgers, along with Jackie Robinson were pioneers in much the same was as other courageous individuals like Rosa Parks.

Lyrics

He stepped up to the plate
Some thought he tempted fate
Others saw the new day
History showed it mattered
The color line was shattered
But Jackie just came to play!