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January 11, 2002

After Hours: War history film seeks your footage

Photo courtesy of the National Archives and Record Administration
Seattle TV station KCTS is producing an all-color social history on American life during World War II.
SEATTLE -- Martin Smith, a British documentarian with works to his credit such as PBS's "Vietnam: A Television History" and a 24-episode "Cold War" series that appeared on CNN, has turned his attention to Seattle.

He's working with local public television station KCTS to produce "The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color," a four-part social history of the war told from an American perspective. Smith produced a pair of similar documentaries in Britain, "The Second World War in Colour" and "Britain at War in Colour."


 
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