Shades of grey (1948)

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Titre :

Shades of grey

Year of production :

1948

Country of production :

United States

Director(s) :

Joseph Henabery

Actors :

Edward Kreisler
Lewis Howard
Sandy Campbell
Paul Larson
Michael Higgins

Duration :

66 minutes

Format :

speaking film - Black and white - 16 mm

Original languages :

English

Subtitles and transcription :

Sous-titrage

Commissioning body :

U.S. Army

Corpus :

Combat fatigue

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Content

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Main genre

Documentary

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Structuring elements of the film

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• Set footage : No.
• Archival footage : No.
• Animated sequences : No.
• Intertitles : No.
• Host : No.
• Voix off : Yes.
• Interview : No.
• Music and sound effects : Yes.
• Images featured in other films : No.

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Broadcasting and reception

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Description

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Supplementary notes

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References and external documents

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C. A. Morgan III, From Let there be light to Shades of Grey: the construction of authoritative knowledge about combat fatigue (1945-1948) in Signs of life, Cinema and Medicine, edited by Graeme Harper and Andrew Moor, Wallflower Press, London and New York, 2005.
Lowy Vincent & Cantor David, Conversion Narratives, Health Films, and Hollywood Filmmakers of the 1930s and 1940s in Health Education Films in the Twentieth Century, edited by Christian Bonah, David Cantor and Anja Laukötter, University of Rochester Press, Rochester, 2018.

Contributors

• Record written by : Élisabeth Fuchs