Dog Green Productions has been working hard on one of its latest projects, Morgenthau, a documentary film about three generations of the Morgenthau family. Over the past year, we have filmed in Israel and Turkey, completed over a dozen interviews, and combed through hours and hours of archival footage, many artifacts, and hundreds of photos to illustrate the careers and legacies of Henry Morgenthau Senior, Henry Morgenthau Junior, and Robert Morgenthau. Stay up to date with the film at www.morgenthaufilm.com.
Dog Green Productions is proud to announce a Government Services Administration schedule award, in which government agencies can directly purchase our services. Dog Green Productions is a Government Services Administration schedule holder, under Multiple Award Schedule 541: Advertising & Integrated Marketing Solution (AIMS). As a certified small business, Dog Green Productions provides a wide variety of video production services, as well as video and interactives for the web.
Dog Green Productions is proud to announce the award to DGP of a new four year contract with the American Battle Monuments Commission for the development and production of twelve high-tech campaign interactives and two large format state of the art touch table timeline interactives (World War I and World War II) for ABMC sites in various locations around the world. The campaign interactives will first be produced in large screen high resolution touch screen kiosk format and will cover major United States military campaigns during World War I and World War II. These will include sites such as Cambridge American Military Cemetery and Brookwood Cemetery in the United Kingdom. The campaign interactives will also be migrated in a new format and style to the ABMC web site network. These interactives will be created in an advanced, extremely detailed, and encyclopedic format that is multi-layered for home/school and facility use. To see some examples of two previous interactives, please refer to the American Battlefield Commission (ABMC) web site at www.abmc.gov. They include The Battle of Point du Hoc and The Normandy Campaign.
The American Battle Monuments Commission, established by the Congress in 1923, is an agency of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
The Commission—guardian of America’s overseas commemorative cemeteries and memorials—honors the service, achievements and sacrifice of United States Armed Forces. The Commission’s commemorative mission includes:
• Designing, constructing, operating and maintaining permanent American cemeteries in foreign countries.
• Establishing and maintaining U.S. military memorials, monuments and markers where American armed forces have served overseas since April 6, 1917, and within the U.S. when directed by public law.
• Controlling the design and construction of permanent U.S. military monuments and markers by other U.S. citizens and organizations, both public and private, and encouraging their maintenance.
One of the great heroes that I got to know and love during our interviews for the film and interactive for The American Battle Monuments Commission, The Battle of Pointe du Hoc, left us on March 1st.
Lt. Leonard “Bud” G. Lomell of Toms River, New Jersey served with D Company of the 2nd Ranger Battalion on D Day. As a young sergeant at the time, Len climbed the cliffs of “the Pointe” under intense German fire, was wounded and yet fulfilled his mission to find and render inoperable the big 155MM guns that threatened the invasion fleet. For his bravery and leadership, Bud earned a battlefield commission and the Distinguished Service Cross. He also won the Silver Star for his actions at Hill 400 in the Hurtgen Forest later in the war in December of 1944.
I interviewed Len over the course of two long days and got to know him and his incredibly charming wife of 64 years, Charlotte. We have recorded over 13 hours of interview material.
Bud loved the Rangers and loved speaking about the “boys of Pointe du Hoc.” Sometimes, during the interviews, Charlotte would roll her eyes lovingly as Len forgot a fact, and would interrupt him to make sure he said it right. I felt she got as much satisfaction being the true encyclopedia and database of Len’s Ranger stories.
Bud and Charlotte are the absolute best this country has offered all of us living in this world.
I am honored to have met him and filmed his testimony, enabling his stories to be heard forever by future generations.
Ours To Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War
, a traveling exhibit by the Museum of Jewish Heritage consisting of 7 videos and 2 audio programs produced by Dog Green Productions, is currently on special exhibit at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. The exhibit features the achievements of Jewish men and women during the American war effort in WWII in combat and at home and will be in New Orleans until April 24, 2011. For more information, visit the National WWII Museum’s website at: http://www.nationalww2museum.org/exhibitions/special_exhibitions.html. Or the website for Ours to Fight For at: http://ourstofightfor.com/index.jsp
We are finding a treasure trove of Henry Morgenthau Senior material including letters, government documents, and audio recordings! Our chief researcher, David Gary, is currently scouring the Library of Congress shelves for archival material for Morgenthau footage and to also better understand the professional and private life of the former Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
Welcome to our new website! We have been hard at work on our latest project, Morgenthau, a major full-length documentary film that tells the epic story of three generations of the Morgenthau family. We have conducted over 30 interviews with an array of scholars, lawyers, politicians, and Morgenthau family members, including Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Reverend Al Sharpton, the historian Taner Akçam, and former New York city mayors Ed Koch, David Dinkins, and Rudy Giuliani. We still have a number of interviews to complete and a few trips abroad to make this spring so stay posted for updates here and at our website for the film at www.morgenthaufilm.com. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter!
