They bonded as outsiders, non-Parisians in Paris. He had the beautiful face of America, an America spontaneous, tender, almost naive, bold and contradictory.”ĭormeyer met Blue in 1957, when they were students at the prestigious film school, L’Institute des Hautes Études Cinématographique (IDHEC). James Blue, said Dormeyer, effortlessly countenanced these childhood images.
“And when later, in 1944, American soldiers arrived to liberate my town and country and also give away chocolates and chewing gum, I was sure that most of these soldiers had come from California and could be nothing but nice.” “The fascination for everything American ran back to my childhood because my grandfather often told me the story of the fairy Vivianne who would take good children with her on a winged duck all the way to California,” he said. When Dormeyer was 8 years old, American troops led by Gen. Just across the German border, the Lorraine Valley, was, in 1944, occupied by German forces. James Dormeyer was born three hours northeast of Paris in the Lorraine region of France. Written by Max Giffin | photos by Division of Special Collections, University of Oregon
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