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  1. German occupation of Paris; crossing Marne river

    Reel 10: German soldiers advance, cross a river, throw grenades, fire artillery, talk over a field telephone, ride armored vehicles, care for wounded mates, advance thru a city on the Marne, decorate graves, enter Paris, raise a flag on the Eiffel Tower and pass the Arc de Triomphe and other landmarks. Armored vehicles advance towards Paris. Abandoned Allied war material blocks the advance. German forces cross the Marne on a pontoon bridge. Cavalry units ride into Paris. German officers in Paris salute parading troops and award Iron Crosses.

  2. German invasion, occupation of France; POWs

    Reel 11: German cavalry and infantry cross a river. Artillery bombards the Verdun forts. French troops surrender. Shows wrecked forts, a WWI monument, German infantry parading past the forts, civilians and French POWs. German forces passing abandoned war material and thru French towns. German tankmen studying maps, and a battle. French troops load guns in the Verdun forts. German infantry cross a river in motor launches.

  3. German invasion, occupation of France; surrender of French

    Reel 12: German troops advance, reduce French strong points, fire artillery, guard French POWs, cross a pontoon bridge and enter French forts. German officers ride in staff cars. French soldiers load guns in their forts. French officers surrender. French POWs plod along, Senegalese POWs dance. German flag covers a WWI monument in Compiegne, German troops stand at attention. Hitler, Goering and others enter the WWI armistice railway car and receive the French surrender from General Huntziger and others. Maps Vichy France, shows a cathedral. Hitler visits a Paris cathedral and addresses the R...

  4. Jews fight for Israel; UN; dancing; raising flag

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 21, No. 144, Part 1. Release date, 05/18/1948. According to UN Motion Picture Release: "Jews Defend New Zion State." In Palestine, first pictures of the battle for Haifa, which the Jews won after 2-day siege, highlight the dramatic turn of events in the Holy Land. Jews fight Arab attackers closing in on five sides. Arab refugees, CUs; corpses. Flag of new Jewish state. In Lake Success, U.S. recognition of Israel is announced to United Nations delegates, still dead-locked over plans for truce. In Washington, boy unfurls flag of new Jewish state. Israeli dancing. Unre...

  5. Princess Elizabeth

    Newsreel footage unrelated to USHMM Film and Video Collection. Universal Newsreel, Vol. 21, No. 144, Part 1. Release date, 05/18/1948. "Princess Elizabeth Visits France" Wreath-laying at Arc de Triomphe.

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Foreign Service Officers Training; Dept of State

    Sign over door: Foreign Service Officers Training School. Seal and machinery for stamping the seal. Sign: Appointments: Department of State. Statement to camera (and to those gathered for class). Sync sound about the American Foreign Service, duties, importance. Silent views of individuals seated in the room taking notes. Sync sound: swearing of oath. Another take of same. (Two men) Calendar on wall in background: November. WS, of large room, procters during examinations at desks. Candidates are exclusively male; most in shirts and ties, no jackets. McCrory's store on corner, trams and traf...

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- NYC at night; German section; "Inside Nazi Germany"

    Night scene of New York city. Gradually more is visible. New York City buildings. Flashing sign atop the Park Central Hotel, visible BG, center of screen. Sunkist lighted billboard also visible in FG screen right. (This sequence is out of register towards the end). Neon signs: Restaurant. The Platz Dance. Barber shop. Yorkville section, NYC. Sunkist. Essex House. Deutscher Stock Broker: Geldsendungen. Reise Mks. Heute. Swastikas and US flag with dolls in same shop window. Several views. Hitler, swastika, US flag and hula doll. Cafe Hindenburg. Neon signs. 02:16:52 Sign on movie marquee: Exc...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Joseph Kennedy; speech; scenes in US Embassy in London

    665 D Several men in office talking. Joseph P. Kennedy (US Ambassador to England) at his desk; four men gathered for discussion. Sync sound. Speech: "Gentlemen, we have to have, by Tuesday night -- I'm leaving on Wednesday for America -- a report on the British naval program...for me to take back to Washington....an outline of the various departments you represent. Try to arrange to have that by Tuesday night...a report on the British naval building program...and what they propose to do over the next year...." CUs, men. Various responses to Mr. Kennedy. Voice off screen: "Cut!" Kennedy: ".....

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- Chamberlain; Munich agreement with Hitler re. Czechoslovakia

    Chamberlain leaving Heston airport in the morning on September 29 for Munich to meet Hitler, Mussolini and Daladier. Chamberlain gets out of car, goes into air company's office. Shot of Sir Kingsley Wood, Lord Halifax and other officials at Heston airdrome saying goodbye to Chamberlain before flying to Munich. Chamberlain approaches plane, crowd, press, spectators. Chamberlain says "When I was a little boy, I was told if at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. This is what I am doing. When I come back, I hope I may be able to say as Hotspur says in Henry IV: 'Out of the nettle, dan...

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Nazi conquest of Austria, Vienna, 1938

    CU, sign, "Adolf Hitler Platz", the former Rathaus Platz, in Vienna. Shot of Rathaus with windows illuminated, shot at nightfall. Man shining shoes. Army trucks with food supplies. Stand erected in the Ring. Monument to Austrian Victims of the War. Vienna's Jewish shop district. LS, Danube Canal. Jews sitting on a bench. Car with Schupos on Danube Bridge. LS, facade of former Austrian War Ministry with Nazi flag. The Ring and Kaerntnerstrasse (Opera) with flags and posters showing Hitler's picture and the words: "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer." Peasants at work. Village street near Vienna...

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- British delegates visit Buchenwald

    British MPs at Buchenwald, Buchenwald, Germany, September, 1946. VS, convoy bearing British delegates arrive and enter the camp. Walking about the camp, inspecting and talking to inmates. VS, Mrs. Mavis Tate and others interview victims in prison courtyard. Survivors cook over fire behind barbed wire. INT, barracks at Buchenwald, talking to survivors in prisoner uniforms lying on cots. CU, pan, two emaciated victims. VS, Mrs. Tate and inspection party through barbed wire. Pan, tilt shot from pile of naked bodies to MPs looking on. MS, inspection party looking at a truck full of dead bodies....

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jewish services and market scenes in postwar Germany

    1248 G: 02:05:51:15 to 02:09:15:28: LS, man places poster announcing resuming of religious services on door of synagogue. CU. LS, reopening of synagogue: "Kottbuser Ufer Synagogue." One man, on a ladder, fixes the curtain on the altar. Two men bring flowers, another man fixes the lights, other men bring in the Torah. LS men bringing the Torah into the synagogue. LS, INT of Kottbuser Ufer Synagogue, while faithful put on Tallit. VSs, religious service, viewed from different angles. American soldier attends services. CUs, American GI talking with a German during the service. 1248 J: 02:09:18:...

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Exhumation of bodies from Terezin and Karlovy Vary camps

    (Czech Newsreel Material) MLS, exhumation of victims' bodies (Czech patriots) from Terezin and Karlovy Vary prison camps. HASs, POWs working in graves exhuming bodies. One POW prominently featured wears a jacket that has a large swastika painted on the back. VSs, bodies being lifted out of graves for identification. CU, pant leg of a POW exhuming bodies, the letters "SS" are crudely painted on the pant leg. VSs, bodies being placed on wooden platforms for doctors' identification. Doctors wearing rubber gloves identifying the dead. Field of coffins, lined in neat rows, in one shot the white ...

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Atrocity at Nuremberg; burials

    Atrocity at Nuremberg (via Fox). VSs, bodies of massacred Jews lying in woods. VSs, American soldiers arriving and inspecting the bodies. MCU, German civilians carrying coffins along road. CU, man weeping at sight of the bodies. VSs, German men and women carrying coffins thru the woods and along road. CU, weeping German woman. LS, Germans lining route over which coffins are being carried. Travelling shot, Germans standing beside open coffins. VSs, Germans carrying coffins along road and people weeping as they pass. Germans placing coffins down in cemetery. VSs, German men and women looking ...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Buchenwald Concentration Camp

    Buchenwald Horror Camp, Buchenwald, Germany. (Via Universal) VSs, Buchenwald concentration camp showing inmates walking about, barracks in BG. PS (AV), entire prison showing barracks and barbed wire. Pan, INT of camp courtyard. CU, jeep and truck painted white and marked with Red Cross passing camera. HAS, GI's entering the camp. LS, barracks with GI inmates and barbed wire in FG. CU, sign on barracks, "All Polish Greet the Fraternal American Army." MS, flags above the sign. LS, crowd of inmates cheering picture of Stalin tacked to the barrack wall. MS, pile of pulverized bones. CU, concent...

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Germany invades Austria; Vienna

    NAZI CONQUEST- AUSTRIA, Vol 4.9, 1938. Hitler entering Austria, March 13, 1938. German army trucks on the Ring, Vienna's most important street; crowds, Kurt Schuschnigg's house. LS, Mariahilferstrasse, street where most Jewish stores are located. Hitlerjugend parading; poster with Kurt Schuschnigg's picture; swastika flags and banners. Policemen and newsboys. Nazi war veterans marching. Reisebüro MITROPA - HAPAG (Travel agency MITROPA - HAPAG.) Crowd on the Ring. Officers marching. Hitler's picture. Chancellor's Palace. Opera House. Parade of German troops in the Ring at night. General Keit...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Vittel Internment Camp, France

    VSs, crowd of internees waving at passing armored vehicles. VSs, people waving to passing tanks. MLS, American women internees. CU, Polish woman and her baby grandaughter. 04:26:02 Aaron Rapoport (a furrier) with his three daughters, Malka, Bola, and Chana. VSs, Mr. and Mrs. Rymanowski and son, Teddy. VSs, three little girl internees hold American flag, one of them is giving the "V" for Victory, the one behind the flag is Rodi Glass (better CU at 04:26:58). VSs, Mr. and Mrs. William Irwin. Private Eldon Nicholas, who was a Red Cross aide, entertains internee children through the barbed wire...

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- street scenes and pedestrians

    Life in Czechoslovakia, street scenes, urban life. VSs, monument of President Woodrow Wilson in park and traffic passing. Various shop windows with people looking in (grocery and butcher shops). City street, cars, streetcars, pedestrians. People reading newspapers in cases on the walls. Shop in Jewish quarter. Bata Shoe Co. store on the main street called Vaclavske, taken at night--neon sign of illuminated map showing London, Paris, New York, and Prague marked on it. VSs, buildings in old quarter of Prague. Building, churches, clocktower. Czech children on merry go-round, riding tanks and g...

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- buildings, restaurant, diplomat visit, street scenes, Charles IV tomb

    638 C: EXTs, Ministry of War. EXTs, Sudeten-Deutsche headquarters. EXTs, houses of Parliament with street traffic. VSs, modern restaurant with people looking in window. EXT, Automat restaurant with sign. EXT, more upscale Restaurant Manes. Dr. Milan Hodza getting out of car at the Alacron Hotel. VSs, newest, largest and most modern office building in Prague, traffic passing by building. VSs, policeman directing traffic. EXT, Czernin Palace with people passing and Czech inscriptions on the arcades. Flag on President's Palace. 638 D: General view of Vaclavske, main street of Prague showing cr...

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- bridges, ships, coal, street scenes

    Reel 47. 100 feet. Shot on quays Usti, of boy [passing barge marked N.D.B.E. Magdeburg]. Shot of name of barge. Five shots of a Dissel tug marked Tabor Praha, sailing on the Elbe, showing countryside. Shot taken at Brensko, the Elbe frontier station, between Czechoslovakia and Germany. Passengers from ferry coming up steps and showing passport to Czech customs officials. Reel 48. 100 feet. VS, taken showing the Tabor steaming up the Elbe, also showing typical Sudeten village on the other side of the river with mountains in background. Also showing large barge used for exports being towed by...