It’s interesting how we think of the Civil War as being the distant past, but this movie was released 74 years after the Civil War which is actually less time passage than the end of World War II to now and there are still plenty of WWII veterans and people who lived through the War. Makes me wonder how many Civil War veterans saw Gone with the Wind and what their perception of the film was.
shareI saw a making of Gone with the Wind and they showed at the premiere in Atlanta some Confederate Civil War veterans attending, they were very elderly and must have been very young during the war.
shareIs this online? Would love to see it.
shareMe too!
shareI don't know if it's online if you want to look. But I think it was this video.
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Legend-Gone-Wind/dp/B002OID530
Making of a Legand: Gone with the Wind
I believe I had gotten it on DVD some time ago or it might have been a video tape someone gave me who taped it off of their cable! I will have to look around.
Here, I found this, the part that was included in that film, about the premiere.
https://youtu.be/ASuskXS2FZE?t=158
I have this. I recorded if off of TCM a few years ago.
shareYea it’s crazy when you think about it. A movie back then made about the Civil War was similar to a movie today made in 2022 about the 1950’s. Still within the memory of the oldest people. Even in the 1930’s people were making movies harkening back to earlier days. Their version of nostalgia?
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