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MOTIONPICTUREC O S T U M E R S .O R G 7 collections. Compiled research was placed into secure drives and printed spiral folders for the team to study. Costume houses stock was combed and any pieces suitable and serviceable were pulled and later brought back to life via newly made cast replica buttons, with occasional period buttons used on principal cast members to make their costumes pop on camera. Hero samples were chosen and then sent to manufacturers for replication. Reputable and trusted vendors made the various leather and painted canvas belts; period civilian shoes and military issue boots, brogans, and camp shoes. As items arrived at the Western Costume Company cage and office, they were inspected to ensure quality and accuracy. This process of creating period costumes and uniforms for the cast, stunt doubles, stunt players, extras, and more took 8-9 months. "From our designer, Francine Tanchuck (I called her the Queen of Glory as that was her first Civil War film to design), Josh Mar, who took over as Key (and did an incredible job), when I became the military technical advisor at the director's request, to our own army of Tailors and Set Costumers, as well as each of the other departments, this was a sincere passion project for all hands involved." This fall, Glenn is releasing a four- volume set (available from Barnes & Noble) focusing on the Pacific Theater of World War II: Tarwara: Issue in Doubt (Vol. I), Tarwara: Blood on the Sand (Vol. II), Tarwara: Sabers and Sake (Vol. III), and Tarawa: Gibraltar of the Pacific (Vol. IV). Included are images taken in succession, one frame after the other, during the iconic Battle for Betio Tarawa in November of 1943, at the time, a battle comparable to D-Day and the Invasion of Normandy France in June of the following year. The Tarawa images were taken by marine combat cameramen during the landing and battle, men such as staff sergeant Norm T. Hatch (a dear and personal friend of Glenn). Hatch would go on to win an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film of 1944 for the color film footage he shot during the Tarawa Battle. Hatch and other marine cameramen had a small office at Warner Bros., where they edited and cut the 19-minute all-color documentary film With the Marines at Tarawa. This footage was a first for American movie-going audiences to see their boys in life-like color and brutal realism. In Glenn's first volume, Tarwara: Issue in Doubt, SSgt. Norm Hatch is captured in a number of the still frames, holding his Eyemo camera, in the moment and under fire. Accompanying the hundreds of images are diary entries written by some of the marines, sailors, a naval beach party, and medical corpsmen and coast guardsmen (serving as shore parties in the triage and evacuation of hundreds of casualties), creating a compelling moment-by-moment visual diary. "I wrote these books: Do you need a Military Costumer?" Other works by Harlan Glenn: Kampfraum Arnheim (Battlegroup Arnhem) (2024) Kampfraum Arnheim is a photo study of the German and British soldiers involved in Operation Market Garden (depicted in 1977's A Bridge Too Far) which took place in September of 1944 during World War II. Some nine rolls of film are put back into sequence order as they were taken so the reader can see the event unfold—the soldiers marching down the country road, stopping to fill their pockets with apples from an apple tree orchard, then marching off and away. (RZM Publishing), https://rzm. com/products/kampfraum- arnheim 782 Gear: U.S. Marine Corps Field Gear of WWII (2009) A companion volume to Glenn's United States Marine Corps Uniforms, Insignia, and Personal Items of WWII, 782 Gear contains numerous rare and never-before-published wartime photographs. 782 Gear is an in-depth pictorial study of the many patterns, and variations of Marine Corps field gear (known then as "782 Gear") that US marines carried in the Pacific War. (RZM Publishing) https://rzm.com/ products/782-gear Dungarees and Frogskin, United States Marine Corps Uniforms and Insignia of WWII (2005) "After briefly working on the 1999 Windtalkers, it was too apparent that there was no definitive research book for the Costume, property, and art departments, thus I began compiling original photographs and research to write both my WWII marine books." (RZM Publishing) https://rzm.com/products/ united-states-marine-corps- uniforms-insignia-and- personal-items-of-world- war-ii For King and Country: British Airborne and Commando Uniforms of WWII (1996) At the time of publication, there was no other book to aid costumers or designers to accurately dress and or remanufacture these period British and Canadian WWII uniforms. HBO's Band of Brothers British Costumers and Supervisor bought copies from Glenn when he flew over to Hatfield, UK, to deliver the British uniforms he had made for them. (Schiffer Books) https://schifferbooks.com/ products/for-king-country