I'm not too sure about the colour newsreel comments you made, but I do think Spielberg fudges the issue a little in expressing a desire to recapture the newsreel feel. It depends on what level of realism Spielberg is trying to achieve. One could be that of verisimilitude, in which the audience is asked to suspend disbelief and believe that they are present on the battlefield. (In this respect then the effort should be to record colours etc. as they are, or as they would have been to the naked eye, as an example) The other is through recognition, asking the audience to imagine they are watching original footage, maybe even to believe they are in a wartime cinema. If this is the case, the much of the violence would surely have been censored, in the interests of morale at home perhaps. ---------------------- Damian Peter Sutton [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.