Les Croix de Bois (Wooden Crosses)

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I have not seen this but would like to. Thanks for the reminder.

Hand-held camerawork was not wholly uncommon in the silent era, but it certainly became rarer with the coming of synchronized sound. The only example I can think of off the top of my head from 1932 is a single shot in the William C. de Mille - directed Miriam Hopkins film Two Kinds of Women.
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Has anybody else seen Raymond Bernard's 1932 WWI film Les Croix de Bois (Wooden Crosses)? I just saw it last night (and posted a review on my blog; it's an absolutely magnificent film, brilliantly directed--the battle sequences, with its use of hand-held cameras (were they used in any other film so early?) and symbolic dissolves, are among the finest I've ever seen.
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