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Features: Riddle of the Day
"According to James O’Regan’s splendid documentary history of the CAFPU, Shooters, this footage was the first seen by Eisenhower and Montgomery, Roosevelt and Churchill, and it remains the only actual film of the assault to survive." Marc Milner, Legion Magazine, April 26, 2010: Features: Riddle of the Day
James O'Regan Interview (listen)by Adrian Harewood, All in a Day, CBC Radio One, Ottawa, November 8, 2007, 3:10-3:25pm.
Shooters WNED PBS Top Pick - weekend of September 28-30, 2007
Globe and Mail Tonight's Pick, September 28, 2007 Clipping
SHOOTERS: A new documentary
"It tells a remarkable story of the Second World War adventures and worldbeating accomplishments of the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit. Little has been seen or heard before of this group of dedicated photographers. The Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit (CFPU) was late to be formed but they were the first in scooping the world on major events in Europe..." - The PHSC E-MAIL, Volume 6-1, Supplement to Photographic Canadiana, May 2006, The Photographic Historical Society of Canada, Full Story (PDF File
Video honours little-known facets of war reporting
An idea was born during the hearty greetings and clink of glasses at a military reunion in Ottawa when a son watched and listened as old comrades slapped his father's back, shook his hand, and talked war stories." - Dave Brown (Ottawa Citizen, March 20, 2005, p. A8) Full Story
Shooters Documentary Available
Some of the most iconic images of World War II were captured by a little-recognized group of Canadian photographers and cameramen nicknamed the Shooters. These men belonged to a Canadian Army unit that followed frontline troops into battle--whether it was landing at Juno Beach on D-Day or parachuting over the Rhine--in order to capture the news as it happened.
The story of the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit is told in a recently completed documentary film by Canadian writer and producer James O'Regan, whose father Brian O'Regan was a member of the CFPU.
The hour-long documentary features some new colour footage of the D-Day landings and extensive selection of CFPU footage, some of which is truly excellent." - Adam Day, Legion Magazine, September-October, 2005 Full Story
THROUGH THEIR EYES, WE SAW WAR
At full strength during the Second World War, there were 60 members of the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit. More than 20 would become casualties, six of them fatal. The number of survivors of the little-known unit dropped to five with the death Feb. 8 of Charles "Bud" Roos, 92, in Victoria, B.C." - Dave Brown (Ottawa Citizen, March 6, 2006, p. D1) Full Story
Propaganda on Display
... The CWM also screened local moviemaker James O'Regan's "Shooters," about Canadian war photographers. ..." - Randal Marlin, Peace and Environment News (PEN), February 6, 2006, Full Story
'Shooters': An interview with James O'Regan
Two weeks before Christmas 2005, Ottawa filmmaker James O’Regan presented Canadian veterans and their families with a gift – his film about the Canadian Army Film Unit, entitled Shooters." - Peter Dudley, www.canadianfilm.com, March 8, 2006, Full Story
Shooters: A New Documentary...
It tells a remarkable story of the Second World War adventures and worldbeating accomplishments of the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit. Little has been seen or heard before of this group of dedicated photographers...." - THE PHSC E-MAIL, Vol. 6-1 May 2006, p. 5
