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THE FILM SINCE THEN
those made about the war, Your Freedom is at Stake (1946) was a remarkable compilation of the events leading up to the war, Denmark under the Nazis, and the Liberation. Some of the material was newsreel, but much of it was freshly-shot actually under German eyes by ten courageous cameramen in obviously the most dangerous conditions. Although its editor, Theodor Christensen (son of Benjamin, the old director), lacked the skill of a Helen Van Dongen or the editors who worked for Capra's Why We Fight series, the film had moments of tension and its sheer authenticity compelled attention. Its editor seemed to have difficulty in knowing what to discard from his great mass of footage, and the film consequently lacked dramatic cohesion. An excellent, fast-moving little film about the Resistance was HenningJensen's The Brigade (1945), actually made in Sweden in secrecy in anticipation of the Liberation of Denmark by the Allies. It had a brilliant musical score and a minimum of dialogue.
There is not space here to detail the many documentaries made about agriculture, road safety, blood transfusion and many other subjects under the auspices of either the DanskKulturfilm or the Ministeriernes Filmudvalg, with their general excellence of photography and music. Shortly after the war, Arthur Elton, a senior British documentary producer, was invited to act as an adviser to the Danish documentary movement. A series of films on social services — typical titles were The Seventh Age, People's Holiday, Good Mothers — were made under his producership, directed by Torben Svendsen, Hagen Hasselbach, Astrid Henning-Jensen, Soren Melson, and others, revealing much good direction and human observation. The Danish documentary directors, like so many of their European confreres, cannot forget their love for impressionist effects and this can sometimes give a seeming superficiality to their films which is misleading. On the other hand, their films have a natural wit and an instinctive humour that is refreshing, often lacking in British documentary. Danish production as a whole is worth
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