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Post by mikef6 on Mar 9, 2019 0:24:53 GMT
Part of the reason I chose a B.A. in History was because of certain films sparking a long love for history at an early age. The films would inspire me to read books about certain subjects covered in the films. Granted quite a few of these films were the ones that were repeatedly rebroadcast on the local UHF stations and later on TBS or AMC, etc. Most were WW2 films, such as Destination Tokyo, Gung Ho!, Guadalcanal Diary, Bataan, Midway, Tora, Tora, Tora!, and Operation Pacific to name a few. My grandfather served in the Pacific theater so I had a little bit of first hand knowledge given to me when I had questions (although he kept his answers pretty brief). Later on I started developing interests in aspects of history unrelated to WW2 but those films were key in my developing interest in all things history. In a similar vein of a movie inspiring a young person to a career, I was once talking to a Family Practice doctor who was complaining that staff could not keep his medical facility clean enough. Then he went on about transmitting diseases. I mentioned the scene in "The Story Of Louis Pasteur" (1936) where Pasteur took the towel away from the midwife and threw it into the fireplace. His eyes got really wide and he said, "That's the movie that made me want to become a doctor!"
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