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• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003123
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

05:42:38 West point cadets at graduation. The ceremony takes place by the Hudson River; many spectators. Cadets on parade. They are shown marching in slow motion at one point. 05:43:21 US government agents raid an illegal moonshine operation. They release alcohol from taps, drain a large basin and confiscate cans of moonshine. They dismantle the still and blow it up. 05:44:03 A large crowd of American boys (students) rush onto a field to play a game while spectators watch. At first there appear to be only boys but later girls are also on the field. The game is very physical. The students th...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003124
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Warsaw ghetto, probably in May 1942, filmed privately by German camerman, Willy Wist. General views of the gates opening for a vehicle. Bare-shirted men load bodies in a pit. CU, Jewish man. Market scenes, food and materials for sale, Jews with armbands. Street scenes, crowded sidewalks, trams, rickshaws. Massive funeral procession, various shots, some closeup. Unintentional dark shots. German officer checks papers. Jewish man in rags. Meat shop. 01:05:10 German uniformed man in peaked cap is visible on right of frame, emerging from shop doorway and gesturing with hand at small boy looking ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003125
• English
• 1944-1945
• Updated 1 year ago

American soldiers (US Army) in an open field for target practice. The unit's medical truck is visible in the BG, identifiable by the large red cross on the side of the truck. VS of the members of the unit shooting guns, setting up targets, sorting ammunition, talking, etc. The soldiers take a break: CU of a soldier smiling, sitting down on the ground to eat a sandwich and soup.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003126
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

This short documentary depicts the town of Schonwald in Upper Silesia, and the various activities which occur in preparation for a wedding ceremony that takes place in the village. VS, villagers carrying farm implements, heading off to fields. MCU in the village (of Schonwald), two peasant women read an announcement posted on the side of a building. CUof the announcement (in German), stamped by the town official. VS, young woman pumping water at a well. VS, young townswomen in tradtional costume, kneeding dough and preparing large trays of bread. MS, two older women braid the hair of a youn...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003127
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

VS, German bomber airplane on an airstrip, with Nazi insignia and other markings of the German airforce. VS, mechanics and crew loading bombs onto plane. MS, a military official demonstrates plan of attack to crew using a map. Low angle shot of the belly of the plane closing once ammunition and supplies are on board. CU, night time, propellers of the airplanes, moves out to MLS, plane visible on the runway, preparing for flight. MS, crew members board plane, they shake hands with man who remains on the ground. LS, airplane takes flight. VS, from POV of crew members inside the plane, clouds,...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003128
• English
• 1917
• Updated 1 year ago

Large steamships docked in Ösel. VS of cargo, including military supply wagons and cannons being loaded onto freighters/warships by German naval personnel (in uniform). Sailors in uniforrm operating hoist. Horses are also being loaded onto the ship. Sailors pose alongside the ships, smoking, walking, socializing, smiling for camera. Overhead shot, hundreds of men boarding the ships with their gear on their backs. Horses and more cargo go on with them. Tracking shot of ship leaving harbor, in the foreground the image is a teaming sea of sailors' hats on deck (viewer can only see the tops of ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003129
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

VS, EXT, lake views with mountains in BG. VS, a family of Laplanders (father, mother and child) come to shore in canoe, carrying their belongings, they head toward their tent and enter with all of their belongings. Two dogs enter the tent with them. MCU, man smoking a pipe, then cooking a meal while two children look on. VS of Laplanders in their tent, women, children, baby, etc, carrying out daily tasks. VS, Laplander children in a rural classroom, sitting on the ground in an open tent, there is a female teacher, all students have lap desks and notebooks, they are reading and writing. Ther...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003130
• English
• 1930-1931
• Updated 1 year ago

This is part three of a three part film of which USHMM has all three parts. (Film IDs 2587, 2591, and 2602). Footage of Alfred Wegener and his crew during his expedition of Greenland. With German intertitles. VS of crew, dogs, and sleds, travelling across and charting this seemingly endless frozen tundra. INTs, igloos, equipment, dogs, snow, crew. Wegener died on this fourth of his Greenland expeditions, and there is footage of his grave site on this reel, marked by a large wooden cross. The film ends with an epithet to Wegener.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003131
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Described in the opening titles of the film, as a "nature film", this footage depicts the town of Spreewald in the Brandenburg section of Germany. VS, EXT, stream, trees, various flora and fauna, wooden homes, locals canoeing down a stream or a river, farming, tending to the soil and to crops. VS, two canoes with two groups of children heading downstream, and then docking in front of their schoolhouse. MS of a police officer in uniform, patrolling in canoe. Bails of hay are also transported along the river. The rest of the footage is comprised of similar scenes of locals carrying out daily ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003132
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

VS of adolescent boys learning to swim in a pool. There is one male instructor and approximately 10 pupils. The instructor takes them through important techniques for the breast stroke, focusing individually on arm movements and leg movements before combining the techniques to perfect the breast stroke.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003133
• English
• 1930-1931
• Updated 1 year ago

This is part two of a three part film of which the USHMM has all three parts. (Film IDs 2587, 2591, and 2602). Footage of Alfred Wegener and his crew during his expedition to Greenland. VS of crew, dogs, and sleds, travelling across and charting this seemingly endless frozen tundra. VS of crew carrying equipment up snowy, icy mountains in order to set up their work station, majestic views of the mountains and struggles to get sleds loaded with equipment to the work station. Horses are also used to help pull carry cargo. There are several good CUs in this story of the faces of the people of ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003134
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

EXT, U.S. Army medical unit loads supplies onto trucks for transport. Snow on the ground; soldiers in winter gear, VS loading large wooden crates. VS, the convoy of medical unit trucks travels over difficult terrain, dirt and mud roads, etc. MS, a truck dumps a large amount of rubble onto a dirt road, soldiers [and possibly locals] shovel and level off the roads. LS, underexposed, supply trucks move along a road, mountains in BG. MS, captured German soldiers stand in line with their belongings, receive rations, interviewed by the liberating U.S. Army unit. Pan, several German soldiers look ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003135
• English
• 1944-1945
• Updated 1 year ago

Color footage. MCU moves out to MLS, and then a pan of destroyed equipment on the beach. VS, beach head and surrounding countryside, military vehicles and personnel in BG. Field full of rubble and artillery shells. CU, remains of a building stairwell, rubble surround the stairwell. END LS, from high angle, rooftops of an unidentified town. VS of the rooftops, a street and bridge below with civilians walking across it. VS, MCUs and CUs, the camera pans a church spire and other architectural details of the building. CUs of two American soldiers looking through the viewfinder atop the cathedra...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003136
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

"Le Journal de la Resistance" Title: "Realise clandestinement et sans aucun moyen materiel entre le 16 et le 26 aout 1944 par une equipe de cineastes de la Resistance, ce film apporte a la France et au Monde un temoignange authentique sur la Liberation de Paris" View of Paris just prior to liberation. Empty street, trucks, Germany rebuilds, tank. Men running in street, hanging posters. CUs, various posters. Mobilization. Removing posters. FFI. Shots fired. MS, men's heads at window. Running, firing in streets, commotion. Automobiles with "Police." Sandbags. Buildings. Blood on sidewalk. You...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003137
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

"Ceux du Maquis" French narrator. Partisans (men) in woods, raising flag, muddy roads. Scenes of men building. In uniform, military drills. CU, vehicles, motorcycles, men's boots. Exercises, loading weapon, marching. In snow, pine trees. Practicing, setting up automatic guns, snow. Standing in review, saluting, flag, bugle, Crois de francois. "Ici la France"

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003138
• English
• 1941-1944
• Updated 1 year ago

Footage with musical soundtrack documenting several years in occupied France from the perspective of the resistance. Brief shot, city street. Doriot speaking (synch): "L'Angleterre est vaincue." Maps, airplanes, air attack. 02:20:23 "1941" Train station, people, children getting off train, smiling. Various CUs. Tracking shot, city street, buildings, German signs. INT, party. Hitler. Children presenting flowers. Woman buying newspaper. CUs, newspaper headlines. HAS, camp. Workers. Photograph. "Maison du Prisonnier" Men entering building, creating care packages. Crowd in street, Hitler and Go...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003139
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

00:01:57 "Temoignages Accablants" Sasbach, Westphalia (20 km from Stuttgart) Prisoners of war, various nationalities. In striped uniforms, liberation. Good CUs faces, survivors. Barbed wire. Burial, carrying bodies on litter. MS, military burial, French officers and military salute with accompanying music, CU headstone. Fire. Survivors at table, talking to officers. Nurses provide medical treatment. Put weak survivor in truck. 00:04:44 "A travers la foret Noire" French troops, bicycles and by foot through the woods. Dead Germans. Tanks, good landscape atmosphere. Liberation. Burning village...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003140
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Opening credit: Service Cinema Armee Francaise. Barbed wire at Hadamar. Survivors - Poles and Russians. Lice. Americans tour camps. Piles of victims. Local civilians forced to enter hut with bodies. CUs, captured German. Various shots of corpses, ashes, bone, open graves. 3 men in gas masks lift buried corpses from grave. Americans, doctor in white coat, military start autopsy, examination. Interrogation. Poison bottle. HAS, graves.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003141
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

"Crime et Chatiment" [ECPA handwritten notes indicate that these are Jewish women at "Camp Transit d'Allach."] Women survivors. Young, showing numbers on arms, holding pictures of themselves before the war. Sign: "...Dachau" ; "Waffen SS" HAS, camp courtyard with survivors. "X" on back. Cages. Near gas chamber, man in striped uniform showing INT of gas chamber (dark). Pile of corpses. Carrying corpse inside shack. Pile of clothing. Bodies on wagon. American/French? soldiers escort man to his execution. Firing squad.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003142
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

"Resurrection...Meditation" [Narration indicates this is Dachau - to be verified.] Survivors, delousing (re-clothed). Men climbing into truck, driving on road. Released. Some men still wear striped caps. Line of military tanks. Many German civilians walking along road (tracking shots), some hiding faces [USHMM collection contains color still images of this scene]. Great numbers of German civilians in central courtyard at Buchenwald. Shots of survivors behind barbed wire. CUs, wounded feet. Germans viewing display on tables. Pan, lampshade, skin, etc. Fainted women. Mass funeral, prayer at g...