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  1. laundry; French town

    Women doing laundry in a large wash basin in an apartment building courtyard. VS, EXT. Buildings, castle, rooftops, houses, apartments- a survey of the architecture of the unidentified town. Civilians, man in US Army uniform. Local women pumping water. Sign in French reads: "Hotel du Roxy" Shot of large, ornate public fountain.

  2. U.S. military police; soldiers; wreath-laying

    MS, Military Police in uniform, in formation, most likely American MPs. MS, African (possibly French West African Colonial) troops in formation. Uniform is light colored shirt, dark shorts and hat. All soldiers are carrying weapons. Banners, flags (unidentifiable in footage), military parade, procession, wreaths are laid at the foot of a large stone monument/memorial. Marching bands pass by many civilian bystanders.

  3. French market; American soldiers at bar

    VS, EXT, buildings, amphitheater, civilians, local market. VS, rubble, buildings in ruin. Sign in French at Cafe reads: "Bar Americain" American soldiers are at the bar with local civilians, mainly women. Civilians, male and female, walking through the streets of the unidentified town. People ride by on bicycles. More shots of destroyed, bombed out buildings.

  4. Barges; European seashore

    VS, EXT. Along a canal. Barges, carrying metal drums are docked. Strings of international flags on barges. VS, EXT of rocky shoreline and the sea. CU, young girl on beach. LS, shot from above, most likely a hilltop, looking down to unidentified town and rooftops of homes below. More panning shots of trees, hills, the sea and the shoreline.

  5. Daily activity in French town

    VS, EXT, panning a large garden. MS, civilians, mainly women in an unidentified town. Four women meet in the street, talk in front of a doorway or entrance to a neighbor's home. VS, townspeople, walking, talking, shopping. Large baguettes carried by women who walk past camera, FG, screen right. Women on bicycles, young girls socializing. LS, down street through the center of unidentified town that leads to the sea, a boat is visible, docked in the BG.

  6. Details on the career of Hess at Nuremberg

    (Paris 543) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 7, 1946. Col. Griffith-Jones, British prosecutor, giving a resume of the career of Rudolph Hess. MS, prisoners' dock as Hess and others listen to Col. Griffith-Jones.

  7. Case against M. Bormann and A. Seyss-Inquart at Nuremberg

    (Paris 508) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 16, 1946. LS, MS, rear view, Lt. Harris, USN, prosecution counselor, addressing the tribunal and presenting the case against Martin Bormann, specifically on the lynching of US airmen. LS, MS, Lt. Henry Valpey Atherton, US Army, prosecution counselor, presenting the case against Arthur Seyss-Inquart.

  8. European seashore

    LS, EXT, sailboat in the water. Panning shot of dock, several boats, unidentified town, buildings, visible in BG. VS, EXT, the sea, sunbathers on the beach, large house by the sea, palm trees, women passing by in the courtyard in some sort of military uniform.

  9. U.S. & German soldiers

    MS, American soldiers sitting on wooden benches in an open courtyard. VS, CUs, MCUs, American soldiers. MCU, man walking down a street in an unidentified town wearing a tuxedo an a top hat with a flower in it, he is smiling and waving at the camera. MCU, German soldier with a white armband, walking toward camera. German and American soldier pose together for camera, shake hands, smile. Soldiers leaving in army jeep. VS, from jeep, of countryside, red-roofed homes, farmland, cows, locals with wagons, etc.

  10. Red Cross; U.S. soldiers

    CU, Red Cross worker in BG, nurse, uniformed soldier looking through rubble. VS, nurses, more Red Cross personnel (German uniforms). American soldiers, civilians, peasants in town square. Carts, wagons, some animals, chickens, damaged buildings. Local women with kerchiefs pumping water at well, cows, farm animals are present. Children (very briefly in shot). More American GIs with rifles, standing by Red Cross truck. Scenes of countryside, local girls.

  11. Local women civilians posing for U.S. soldier

    MCU, EXT, woman holding up a red cleaning/scrub brush. VS, four local women, in peasant dress, hamming it up for the camera, posing with scrub brushes, etc.

  12. Postwar destruction; Dachau?; U.S. soldiers

    EXT, traveling shot on a lake or a river. MCU, destroyed plane in clearing, destroyed army camp. VS, destroyed buildings, rubble, etc. 00:19:04 Barracks at Dachau? (unclear if these buildings were part of a camp or a farm). VS, unidentified town, buildings, bell tower, some civilians walking around. CU, bundles (probably victims' belongings) laying on ground in front of building, American soldiers milling about, more bundles/belongings, they seem to be smoldering.

  13. Dachau?; military vehicles; tent camp

    EXT, panning shot, LS barracks and barbed wire at Dachau?, red and white flag hanging from barracks. Traveling shots from moving vehicle of countryside, snow-capped mountains, locals look at passing vehicle, churches, steeples, etc. MLS, GIs camped in clearing, military vehicles, supply trucks, etc. CUs, GIs approach camera. VS, locals, farm, cows, women, children caring for farm animals, clearing fields, etc. VS, soldiers taking still photos, posing, hamming for camera. US army camp, army tents, local boys in Lederhosen walking around in US army camp.

  14. U.S. soldiers on barges

    LS, US soldier, in combat helmet, in FG of picture looking out to sea from boat. VS, boats, US army men on barges, soldiers posing for camera. LS, land, two flags planted in soil on hill- US flag and another flag that is white with a red cross. VS, EXT, army ships, unloading at beach head seen in a LS from a high angle, the Aleutian Islands (Kiska). American soldiers with packs climb hill, relax on hillside. VS, scenic panoramas of snow-covered mountains.

  15. U.S. soldier erecting phone lines in camp

    On the Aleutian Islands/Kiska. CU, wooden sign in snow with illegible writing on it (camera is out of focus for this shot). MS, small cemetery, wooden crosses in snow. MS, soldier climbing down a tall wooden pole, seems to be a telephone pole. MCU, soldier climbing up pole, putting up phone lines at military base camp. VS, soldiers setting up camp in snow, shoveling snow, hamming it up for the camera, engage in a snowball fight, tackle each other in the snow, etc. MCU, American soldier holding up captured Japanese flag. The flag is very badly torn, and there is writing all over it. Two sold...

  16. U.S. soldiers in America

    US soldiers, in Army dress uniforms coming down steps (of barracks?) building. Posing for camera, marching past camera. VS, soldiers about town, in a cafe, eating ice cream on the street in front of a drug store. Pan, Dewey Palace Hotel. Sign reads: "Vic Stolle Drug Co," another sign on shop adjacent to drug store reads: "FW Woolworth & CO". EXT, shots of buildings, unidentified town and buildings.

  17. Dunson family at Christian mission

    At the Kiamichi Mountain Christian Mission in Nashoba, Oklahoma, where Harold Dunson and his family were sent as missionaries in 1947. VS, young man and young woman riding a horse, riding bicycles, setting is the countryside. VS, ranch hands, sitting on a corral fence, corralling cows, branding cattle- many shots of this process, in CU, the branding iron makes the mark "JB". CU of branding, tying down the steer, etc.

  18. Dunson family at Christian mission

    At the Kiamichi Mountain Christian Mission in Nashoba, Oklahoma, where Harold Dunson and his family were sent as missionaries in 1947. VS, older woman with baby posing for camera, older man poses with a Doberman Pinscher and a young girl (the donor, Joy). VS, family life, postwar. Women posing with potted plants. Various families coming out of a church, most are well-dressed, some men exit church in suits, others in work clothes- dungarees and overalls. Children playing on the farm. VS, more footage of ranch hands with cattle and sheep. They are shearing the sheep. Women and children are al...

  19. U.S. soldiers; airplanes entering Germany

    Three US Army soldiers in dress uniforms with combat helmets, posing in front of tent, walking toward camera, smiling. MCUs, on an airfield, prop plane, pilot winds propeller manually to start it, plane takes off, several bare-chested men are standing on airfield surrounding plane. VS, traveling shots from inside a moving vehicle, panning landscape of unidentified town, some destroyed buildings are evident. MS, US soldiers dressing/undressing at camp. CU, sign reads: "YOU ARE NOW ENTERING GERMANY; THERE WILL BE NO FRATERNIZATION WITH ANY GERMAN." A second sign reads: "FRANKREICH BRIDGE."

  20. U.S. soldiers in Europe

    LS, EXT, large unidentified city/town. Trolleys passing by on busy street, civilians, buildings, fountains, cathedral. Cut to VS, American soldiers at barracks, walking about, open fields and mountains in the BG. VS, countryside surrounding the base camp. MCU, local woman with young girl sitting in a car speaking to cameraman and smiling. VS, aerial views of unidentified town, ships docked at port. MLS, amphibious tank type vehicle emerging from water, moving onto land. More aerial views, beach head, soldiers on hillside, etc.