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Press Release
With a little help from his friends in the Department of History, John Corry, a 1984 graduate of Florida State University and partner in Los Angeles-based documentary venture IM3 Entertainment, will return to campus on Thursday, November 8, 2001, for a sneak preview of his upcoming History Channel series The Color of War. The event will take place at 8 p.m. in the Student Life Building Auditorium on the campus of Florida State University. The thirteen-part series, which will begin airing in late November, is a journey into World War II through the eyes of those who witnessed and lived the conflict firsthand. Unlike any other World War II series ever made, The Color of War tells stories of individual experiences of the war through authentic color footage, images that are not tinted, colorized, or retouched. For the series, Corry and his team of producers made extensive use of the archives of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience at Florida State University, which houses the nation’s largest non-federally-funded body of materials devoted exclusively to the social history of World War II. “I’m proud to have the opportunity to come back to Florida State for this event,” says Corry. “The World War II Institute is a world-class archive, and we’re fortunate to have had access to those materials. The sneak preview is a small token of my appreciation for the great work that Bill Oldson [the Institute’s director] and his people have done in preserving these irreplaceable pieces of our history.” Authentic audio from war correspondents, newsreels or radio broadcasts sets up a particular campaign or issue, but the heart of the story will come from the people themselves. Through a seamless tapestry of faithfully recreated voice-overs of letters, telegrams, poems, songs, communiqués, combat camera logs, and soldiers’ diaries, viewers experience their stories and feel what they feel. The personal journeys detailed in The Color of War take us from “The Gathering Storm” to “The Price of War”; from GI Joe to Joe Stalin; from Tokyo Rose to Rosie the Riveter. It’s about generals and statesmen. Grunts and civilians. Battles don’t drive the story, people do. Everyday people . . . With production crews in London, Berlin, Prague, Paris, Egypt, Belgium, Moscow, Toronto, Washington, and Tokyo, Corry and his team are uniquely positioned to access the most compelling footage of World War II. Having spent the last nine years producing the acclaimed documentary series Weapons at War (65 hours) and Sworn to Secrecy (52 hours), IM3’s relationships with military organizations and the international archival footage community are second to none. Corry began work in commercial television after completing four years of active duty in Combat Camera with the United States Air Force’s Aerospace Audiovisual Service. He received a B.S. in Media Communications from Florida State University.
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Patrick A. Smith
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