March of Time -- outtakes -- French refugees, German prisoners, bombing of Paris

Identifier
irn1003483
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.723.1
  • RG-60.4071
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1940
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

The French army in action: tanks, soldiers shooting, dead horses by the side of the road. German prisoners behind barbed wire. Close-ups of individuals as they are questioned and registered by their French captors. Scenes of destroyed buildings shot from a moving vehicle; French soldiers attempt to shoot down a plane. Refugees traveling along a road. Women and children are helped from a truck. One woman is carried on a stretcher. Paris being bombed. Burning buildings, dead cows in a field. Badly destroyed houses, shops and cars. People pick their way through the rubble; a woman runs past a burning vehicle.

Note(s)

  • Outtake from edited March of Time story "On Foreign Newsfronts."

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