How the IDF Founded the Israeli Film Industry

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November 7, 2024
12:45PM - 2:05PM
1015 McPherson Laboratory

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2024-11-07 12:45:00 2024-11-07 14:05:00 How the IDF Founded the Israeli Film Industry This talk considers the seminal contribution made by the Israel Defense Forces to the creation of the Israeli Film Industry during the late 1940s and 1950s. Tracing the unknown history of the IDF Film Unit (1948-1954) through recently declassified military documents and oral testimonies, Professor Harris explores the ways in which it served as a training facility for a generation of technicians, and as a pipeline to Geva Studios, one of two studios created during the 1950s.Details 1015 McPherson Laboratory College of Arts and Sciences asccomm@osu.edu America/New_York public

This talk considers the seminal contribution made by the Israel Defense Forces to the creation of the Israeli Film Industry during the late 1940s and 1950s. Tracing the unknown history of the IDF Film Unit (1948-1954) through recently declassified military documents and oral testimonies, Professor Harris explores the ways in which it served as a training facility for a generation of technicians, and as a pipeline to Geva Studios, one of two studios created during the 1950s.

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