They Fight With Cameras

They Fight with Cameras is a 55-minute documentary narrated by Liev Schreiber, produced and directed by Academy Award nominee Nina Rosenblum and her partner Daniel Allentuck, which recounts the wartime experiences of decorated U.S. Army Signal Corps combat cameraman Walter Rosenblum by combining his photographs and never before seen motion picture footage with his recently discovered letters to his first wife. From the D-Day landings on Omaha Beach to the liberation of Dachau, Rosenblum and his fellow Signal Corps cameramen recorded the war in Europe with skill, empathy and unflinching courage. The film features an on-camera interview with Rosenblum conducted by the USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education in 1997, and an original score composed by Marcus Loeber to present a unique and compelling account of the war in Europe as seen through the lens of a frontline eyewitness.

Provided courtesy of the filmmakers. Running time: 55 minutes.

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About the Guests

NINA ROSENBLUM (Director, Producer)

Nina Rosenblum is an Academy award-nominated producer and director of documentary films and television and President of Daedalus Productions, Inc., a not- for-profit production company based in New York City. She has produced and directed documentaries for PBS, HBO, TBS, NY TIMES Television, SHOWTIME, and segments for ABC, and NBC. Daedalus' co-production partners include Channel Four/UK; WDR/Germany; La Sept/France and SBS/Australia and Canal +/Spain. Rosenblum is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Directors Guild of America, Women in Film and Television, and the International Documentary Association. Her feature documentary films include AMERICA AND LEWIS HINE (NEH, PBS broadcast, New York Film Festival premiere), LIBERATORS: FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS IN World War II (Academy Award nomination Best Feature Documentary, LINKS Sojourner Truth Award, IDA Distinguished Achievement Award), WALTER ROSENBLUM: IN SEARCH OF PITT STREET (President’s Award, Columbus Film Festival) JIMI AND SLY: THE SKIN I’M IN (New York Times/Showtime), LOCK-UP: THE PRISONERS OF RIKER’S ISLAND (HBO) ZAHIRA, LA QUE FLORECE (Canal+ Spain), and ORDINARY MIRACLES: THE PHOTO LEAGUE’S NEW YORK (Van Gogh Award, Best Documentary, Amsterdam Film Festival). Retrospectives of her films have been held in Italy and Spain.

DANIEL ALLENTUCK (Writer, Director, Producer)

Daniel Allentuck is an award-winning writer and producer and co-founder of Daedalus Productions, Inc. In collaboration with his partner, Nina Rosenblum, he has devoted his 40-year career to creating documentary films about art, social photography, and American social history. Several of his films, including AMERICA AND LEWIS HINE, and LIBERATORS: FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS IN WORLD WAR II (Academy Award nomination for Best Feature Documentary) have been broadcast nationally on PBS and exhibited theatrically in New York and Los Angeles, and at film festivals in the U.S and Europe. ORDINARY MIRACLES: THE PHOTO LEAGUE’S NEW YORK (2012) which he wrote and co-directed, won the Van Gogh Award for Best Documentary at the Amsterdam Film Festival. His essays and articles have been published in the IDA Journal (Documentary Magazine), Lies of Our Times, One Last Lunch (Abrams Press-2020) and They FIght With Cameras: Walter Rosenblum in World War II from D-Day to Dachau (Edizioni Postcart-2014). He is a member of the Independent Documentary Association and has a B.A. degree in English and Comparative Literature from New York University. He is the son of actress Maureen Stapleton.