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Sights & Sounds - Music & Memories
Take a nostalgia trip through the portals of the past across the landscape of memory.
It's more than a time capsule, it's a time machine!The sights and sounds of yesterday delivered on a DVD, the medium of tomorrow!
The year is 1938.The year begins with an orgy of violence unlike anything the world had yet witnessed as the Japanese torture and murder thousands in the Rape Of Nanking.Austria votes for unification with Germany.Hitler demands more land and threatens war unless the Sudentenland is carved away from Czechoslovakia.The world is amazed and relieved when European powers fly to Munich and agree to dismember the tiny nation over Czech protests.Neville Chamberlain declares this appeasement has brought "Peace in our time."And in America, war jitters allow showman Orson Welles to create panic in the streets with a "War Of The Worlds" radio invasion listeners believe is all too real.
Video chapter features an hour-long encapsulation of 1938's major stories told through original newsreel footage shot around the globe and narrated by such voices as Lowell Thomas and Ed Herlihy.Bonus video chapters features trailers from the top films of the year.
Audio chapter includes a selection of top song hits for 1938, along with radio newscasts and a radio drama - War Of The Worlds.
Interactive chapter includes awards, lists, data, miscellany and a special focus item - the Munich crisis.
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