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  1. Japanese & German troops advance; African campaign; Stalin's fight against Germany; factories on home front

    Records world-wide war activities. Reel 2: (1942) Japanese and German troops continue to advance on all fronts. US and Japanese fleets are attacked by carrier planes off Midway. The British stop German armor at El Alamein, Egypt. Shows street fighting in Stalingrad. Shows British and Russian factories. Personages: Admiral Nimitz, Joseph Stalin.

  2. Spanish Civil War; Munich Agreement; Nazi officials; Moscow Pact

    Reel 3 shows fighting and destruction during the Spanish Civil War. Daladier, Chamberlain, Mussolini and Hitler sign the Munich Pact. German troops are greeted in the Sudeten. Troops march into Prague and invade Albania. Hitler, addressing the Reichstag, ridicules Roosevelt's appeal for peace. Hitler confers with Goring, von Ribbentrop meets with Russian diplomats to negotiate the Moscow Pact. Contrasts Poland's military power with that of Germany showing the German pictures of aerial attacks.

  3. Poland destroyed; French troops; invasion of the West; refugees

    Reel 4 shows war-torn Poland: Warsaw is bombed, evacuated and burned. Hitler reviews his troops. French troops man the Maginot Line. Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium are invaded. German films show the power of the army; big guns, mechanized equipment, paratroops, etc. Dutch refugees clog roads. Rotterdam burns.

  4. German campaign in Belgium; Allied troops

    Reel 5 shows scenes of the Belgium campaign and of the evacuation of Allied troops at Dunkirk.

  5. German campaign in France and Britain; Churchill; Egypt

    Reel 6 shows scenes of the French campaign, including the evacuation of children from Paris and the formal surrender. Britain is attacked: ships are sunk. London, Plymouth and Coventry suffer bombings. Churchill rallies his people. Malta is bombed. Troops fight in Egypt. Haile Selassi is restored.

  6. Italian prisoners; war on Russian front; FDR; weapons

    Reel 7 shows Italian prisoners in Libya. Shows activities in Russia: Stalin confers with citizens, wheat is harvested, factories produce, soldiers and citizens gear to war. Shows General MacArthur in the Philippines and in Australia. President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act, U.S. industry turns out material of war, and military developments are increased in a total war campaign.

  7. Army film detailing the history of the US

    Orientation Film no. 7, Reel 1. International events cause the US to enter into World War II. Dramatizes the early settling of the US, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and a winter at Valley Forge. Explains the colonists' thirst for independence.

  8. Food conservation leaders in US

    Part 3: US will eat less to feed Germany. Shows food conservation leaders: Hoover, Truman, Herbert Lehman, Henry Wallace, Eric Johnston, and Henry Luvce. Sec. Anderson asks America to help. Unrelated footage: Part 1: Shanghai Hails Chiang Kai-shek: Chiang deplanes, is greeted by Gen. Wedemeyer, and cheered in the city; Part 2: Gen. Homma Sentenced to Die: Japanese Gen. Homma is tried and sentenced to death by the US Military Commission in Manila; Part 4: US Soldiers go Skiing in Japan: Soldiers ski at the 8th Army Enlisted Men's Rest Center on Honshu Island (Japan); Part 5: Giant Machine Bu...

  9. Ardeatine Caves; FFI; torture chamber; corpses

    Corpses of Italians executed by the Nazis are removed from the Ardeatine caves; last rites are given the victims; this was most likely filmed in July 1944 by the March of Time. A funeral cortege for FFI dead moves through Paris. Shows a Gestapo torture chamber in the city; corpses of US airmen in a field at Gambsheim; the removal of corpses from a cellar in Bande, Belgium; and last rites and burial of the victims.

  10. Corpses; exhumation; burial; survivors; sick

    Corpses are removed from a cellar in Stovelot, Belgium, and buried in a common grave. German civilians under guard exhume victims at Arnstadt, and bury corpses at Leipzig. Emaciated Hungarian women are evacuated from a concentration camp. Shows hospitalized inmates.

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- US Newspaper Correspondents in Paris

    Harry's New York Bar. General view, Paris correspondents at table, left to right: Edgar Mowrer of "Chicago Daily News" (once kicked out of Germany), Robert Parker, Jr. of Associated Press, replacing Lloyd during latter's vacation. Ralph Heinzen of United Press. Bill Reed of International News Service (crashed the party, leaving Paris shortly for New York, future job unknown). John Whittaker, formerly with "Chicago Tribune," then in Paris office of "Chicago Daily News." CUs of Mowrer, Heinzen, Whittaker, Parker and Reed (together). These shots were made at Harry's although Paris corresponden...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Newspaper Correspondents

    August 13 and 16, 1937. Interior scenes with sound. MS, Westbrook Pegler typing in his office. CU, Pegler. CU, copy being typed. CU, wider angle, copy being typed. MS, Pegler discussing fascist and communist press attitudes (several takes). Interior scenes with sound. MS, Pegler discussing fascist and communist press attitudes. CU, Pegler (several takes). First 280 feet of roll, interior with incidental sound. Last 120 feet of roll, exterior-silent. MCU, Gilbert Seldes working in study of his home (2 takes). CUs, Seldes copy on typewriter (from different angles).

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- street scenes, urban life

    Life in Czechoslovakia, street scenes, urban life. General views of Prague. Vltava River, bridges and towers of Prague. Suburbs, men and women working in the arena of the new Sokol Stadium. VS of modern buildings, Gothic Powder Tower with Community Hall, Old Town wall. Huss statue with Tyn Church in background. Old arcades on the Rathaus Platz. Charles Bridge, statues, people crossing the bridges.

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Sudeten-Deutsche Party; Eger

    Can 22, 100 feet. Scenes taken in the headquarters of the Sudeten-Deutsche party at 4 Hybernska Prague. Deputy Karl Hermann Frank leader of both Parliamentary factions of the S.D.P. and personal representative of Henlein. Signing letters at his desk, talking to his secretary. Can 23. 100 feet. Frank leaving headquarters for the country receiving the salute. Party members arriving at the desk in the entrance, giving and receiving the salute. Member at desk signing form, giving salute and leaving. Banner on wall, in German, reads: "Heimat is Arbeit" in BG. Two takes. Three shots of members ar...

  15. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 21, 59 and 61 -- Excerpts of five witnesses

    Sessions 21, 59 and 61. (Sessions and individual witnesses to be verified.) Attorney General Hausner asks the Judges about the upcoming afternoon session. He says that delays should be expected considering that the submission of evidence includes witness testimonies. 00:02:00 Court adjourns until the afternoon session. People leaving the courtroom. 00:02:49 Tape jumps. Document 212 is submitted by the Prosecution, concerning Eichmann's dealings with the new Hungarian government, where the Minister of the Interior acquires a one-time transfer of Jews for the Jaegar (or fighter plane) program...

  16. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 23 and 24 -- Testimony of L. Wells, H. Ross, and J. Buzminsky

    Session 23. Adolf Eichmann stands as the Presiding Judge enters and then sits down. WS of the courtroom. The Presiding Judge takes notes and declares the twenty-third Session of the trial open. He then confirms that applications submitted by Dr. Servatius will be discussed later on. Servatius states that the evidence given by the witness, Dr. Wells, is irrelevant and repetitive and thus should not be submitted. Attorney General Hausner responds by saying that Eichmann was appointed by Reinhard Heydrich, who was in charge of exterminating the Jews, and offers several other examples as well. ...

  17. Rauter Trial, Westerbork

    "Het Proces Rauter" opens with the trial of Hanns Rauter, an Austrian who was the highest SS official in Nazi-occupied Holland and who was tasked with setting up Westerbork and Vught. The judge's voice, presumably reading the indictment, over footage of well-dressed civilians wearing stars either arriving at Westerbork or boarding for deportation to Auschwitz or Belsen. Men, women, and children. Good shots of Dutch military police on duty. Back to Rauter sitting at the trial. Men wearing wooden clogs getting off train at Westerbork lining up next to rail cars. At trial, evidence presented a...

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- President & Madame Benes

    Reel 52, 100 feet. Two shots, different angles of the President's Palace in Prague. CU, flag on the President's Palace. CU, Czech officer in Italian uniform on duty at the Palace, this uniform is still worn by certain troops in memory of the Czech legion who fought with the Italian army in the war. CU, sentry. Can 74, 100 feet. Several shots of the changing of the guard at the President's Palace. A Czech army band followed by a company of the Czech Italian legion marching into the courtyard of the Palace, with the crowd watching. VS in the courtyard of the Italian legion taking over from th...

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Sudeten-Deutsche Party; customs

    Can 18, 100 feet. Meeting of the Sudeten-Deutsche party at Eger (Cheb in Czech), frontier town between Germany and Czechoslovakia. This meeting was particularly jubilant because two of the three German minority parties united and agreed to work under the leadership of Konrad Henlein. VS, overflow of the meeting who were unable to get into the hall. Listening to the speakers in the hall by means of loudspeakers outside in the cold. Overflow estimated at 5,000. Can 19. 100 feet. VS, INT of the meeting, showing the audience estimated at 15,000. Chief speaker was Ernst Kundt, leader of the Parl...

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Zlin; Bratislava

    Can 79. 100 feet. VS, brewery (Pilsner). Men working on casks in brewery yard, train passing in BG. CU, men drawing Pilsen beer. 01:09:50 Reel 63. 100 feet. Poster in window at Zlin announcing in English the Tenth Sokol Congress, crowd passing reflected in window. VS, Bata's workmen leaving the factories at Zlin, showing modern/contemporary buildings. Reel 64. 100 feet. Bata workmen leaving factory at dusk. VS of Bata's workmen going to work at 7am, through the gates, punching time clocks. INT of shoe factory with house paper published twice weekly, sold for 30 cents, being handed out to wo...