Search - A Newsreel History of the Third Reich, Vol. 1: The Early Days to 1935 on DVD

Pathetic commentary.

J. O'Kelly | Paris | 12/06/2007

(2 out of 5 stars)

"I bought the 1st two DVD's of the series & find that the voiceover commentary is appallingly bad.
The voice does not match the subtitles, there is no analysis only a shrill, breathless, non stop hectoring accompaniment to the video. A large part of the 1st in the series is a straight copy of Triumph of the Will but without the benefit of the soundtrack. Instead this voiceover barks out sentences from Hitler's speeches without any voice modulation. This makes a nonsense of the speech & completely obliterates the context & mood.
I found that it is watchable only by turning off the sound completely & watching it mute. There are a lot of newsclips I have not seen before so it is not completely useless. At $12 a pop it is just about worth the money but could have been an awful lot better.
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It's OK

Gary Stahl | Berkeley Heights, NJ United States | 10/23/2007

(3 out of 5 stars)

"The footage is mostly clips of newsreels with a very amateurish, almost innocuous sounding man speaking a voice over. The voice over does not just translate the English subtitles into English (Yes I thought that rather odd), but sounds very silly trying to out shout clips from "Triumph of the Will." I will not buy any more of this series, due to its mediocrity."