Yugoslavia: soldiers dancing; officers and prisoners; villagers

Identifier
irn1003017
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.541.1
  • RG-60.3541
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

Reel 7: Soldiers dancing in streets of Vinkovci, accordion player. US ambassador Richard C. Patterson and US officers in Dakovo, entering cathedral - pan, steeple to partially damaged church. Patterson, Kusovac Labud, Yugoslavian Propaganda Chief, and Col Charles Thayer looking through field glasses at fighting. Group of officers leaving German prison. Soldiers riding in horse-drawn carts on way to front, Patterson and officers watching from jeep. Officers interrogating prisoners. CUs, men eating. 03:15:23 Partisan General Peko Dapcevic with an American official (Gen Dapcevic became Tito's chief of staff). They leave in an automobile. 03:16:22 Slate: "Combat Camera Unit 1, Camera 5, Date 4-20, Yugo, Take 1" Locals buying and reading newspapers; vendor selling papers. Street scene in Clerks Colony, people walking and riding horse-drawn carts in residential area; women and children washing in slum area, CUs.

Note(s)

  • AAFCS caption sheet available at NARA. See also Stories 2385-2387, Film ID 2266; Stories 3529-3534, Film ID 2510 and 2511; and Stories 3535-3543, Film ID 2511 and 2512 for related footage on Yugoslavia.

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