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Giuseppe Verdi's Hymn of the Nations, conducted by Arturo Toscanini, directed by Alexander Hammid (1944) UNCENSORED

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Hymn of the Nations, originally titled Arturo Toscanini: Hymn of the Nations, is a 1944 film directed by Alexander Hammid, which features the Inno delle nazioni, a patriotic work for tenor soloist, chorus, and orchestra, composed by Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi in the early-1860s. For this musical work, Verdi utilized the national anthems of several European nations.

During the post-war Red Scare, the US government crudely censored "The Internationale" (the then-anthem of the USSR) out of the film. The version continued to be released without any acknowledgment of censorship. The uncensored version was thought to have been lost until a print was rediscovered in Alaska.

This rediscovered print has been digitally placed back into the film (at 13:08) to give an idea of what it would have originally looked like before it was censored. The audio is from a vinyl recording which was never censored.

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