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It's greatest strength


is the clever and fairly seamless manner in which the actual newsreel footage (and there's quite a lot of it) has been integrated into the main frame of the movie.

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Including the last footage ever shot by one of Australia's greatest newsreel cameramen - of a Japanese sniper just before he killed him.

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Agreed, excellent execution when switching back and forth between co l o r and B/W.

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