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March, 2007
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Ernie Pyle's War
A Documentary on Ernie Pyle, World War II Correspondent

DVD. Produced by Todd Gould.
(Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2005. 30 minutes. $19.95.)

Just as Edward R. Murrow was the best-known radio journalist of World War II, so was Hoosier native Ernie Pyle the best-known print journalist. But far more documentaries have been made about Murrow than about Pyle. Certainly Murrow's bosses at CBS vigorously promoted their man, and his career continued into the age of video, while Pyle was never comfortable posing for promotional pictures. Only a few moving films of Pyle are known to exist, and only a single film exists in which Pyle speaks (an excerpt of which opens this documentary). But it's also difficult to make a video about Pyle because he was a writer and a storyteller. One of his Scripps-Howard bosses referred to his Mark Twain-like quality. Without pictures, documentarists face a challenge in bringing a writer to life. Gould's documentary is only the third to focus on Pyle. While an Arts & Entertainment video produced five years ago (Ernie Pyle: The Voice of G.I. Joe) does a better job of conveying Pyle's role in World War II, Gould's work gives us a broader understanding of Pyle's life and the meaning of his work. . . .
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