OVERLORD UNLEASHED! Sensationally restored footage by George Stevens, Normandy June 6th 1944, Reel 1

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George Cooper Stevens

In 1940, he directed Carole Lombard in Vigil in the Night. In 1942, he reunited with Hepburn at her behest to film Woman of the Year.[3]: 30:00  Stevens served as president of the Screen Directors Guild (SDG) from 1941 to 1943. He directed the romantic comedy The More the Merrier starring Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea and Charles Coburn for which he received an Academy Award for Best Director nomination losing to Michael Curtiz for Casablanca. After seeing the Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will (1935), he was provoked to join the Allied forces in World War II.

He joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946, under General Dwight D. Eisenhower.His unit shot footage—including the only color film of the war in Europe (which remained archived for decades)—documenting the Normandy landings (D-Day),  the liberation of Paris,: 51:00  the meeting of American and Soviet forces at the Elbe River, and the Allied discovery of both the Duben labor camp and Dachau concentration camp.: 57:00  Stevens helped prepare the Duben and Dachau footage and other material for presentation during the Nuremberg Trials, this was released as the hour-long Nazi Concentration Camps (1945). In 2008, Stevens's footage was entered into the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as an "essential visual record" of the war. In 1946, Stevens resumed his duties as president of the SDG, remaining so until 1948. As a result of his experiences during the war, his films became more dramatic.: 59:00  The drama I Remember Mama (1948) was only partly comedic.