{"id":87107,"date":"2019-05-17T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=87107"},"modified":"2019-05-17T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T13:00:05","slug":"the-cold-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87107","title":{"rendered":"The Cold Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85029\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-85029\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/thumbnail_Contrails-3-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/thumbnail_Contrails-3-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/thumbnail_Contrails-3-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/thumbnail_Contrails-3-428x333.jpg 428w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/thumbnail_Contrails-3.jpg 794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">B-17 Contrails at 25,000 feet (HT to TOW)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The Cold Blue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directed by Erik Nelson (<i>Dreams with Sharp Teeth<\/i>,\u00a0<i>A Gray State<\/i>),\u00a0<i>The Cold Blue<\/i>\u00a0takes an inside look at the daily life of men of the Eighth Air Force, who flew mission after deadly mission in World War II. The film features newly restored 4K footage and outtakes, shot by director William Wyler (Oscar winner for\u00a0<i>The Best Years of Our Lives<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Ben-Hur<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Mrs. Miniver<\/i>) for his 1944 documentary\u00a0<i>The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1943, William Wyler, one of Hollywood\u2019s most renowned and versatile directors, went to Europe to document the air war in progress. Wyler and his crew flew actual combat missions on B-17s, during which one of his cinematographers was killed. Incredibly, all of the raw color footage Wyler shot for\u00a0<i>The Memphis Belle<\/i> was recently discovered in the vaults of the National Archives. After a frame-by-frame restoration, Nelson has constructed a compelling new film out of the material. &#8211; article<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the article is here at HBO&#8217;s connection:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbo.com\/content\/hboweb\/en\/documentaries\/the-cold-blue\/about.html\">https:\/\/www.hbo.com\/content\/hboweb\/en\/documentaries\/the-cold-blue\/about.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This link is to Military Times&#8217; article alerting people to this upcoming event:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2019\/05\/17\/cold-blue-brings-death-defying-world-of-a-world-war-ii-b-17-bomber-crew-to-life\/\">https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2019\/05\/17\/cold-blue-brings-death-defying-world-of-a-world-war-ii-b-17-bomber-crew-to-life\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe Cold Blue\u201d will premiere in\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fathomevents.com\/events\/the-cold-blue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>theaters via Fathom Events<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0for one day only \u2014 Thursday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m., before debuting June 6, the 75th anniversary of D-Day,\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbo.com\/documentaries\/the-cold-blue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>on HBO<\/i><\/a><i>. Tickets can be\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fathomevents.com\/events\/the-cold-blue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>purchased through Fathom<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cold Blue Directed by Erik Nelson (Dreams with Sharp Teeth,\u00a0A Gray State),\u00a0The Cold Blue\u00a0takes an &hellip; <a title=\"The Cold Blue\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87107\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Cold Blue<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,130,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-real-soldiers","category-war-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87108,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87107\/revisions\/87108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}