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Vichy-French newsreel about destruction caused by Allied bombing campaigns

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.724.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4110 | Film ID: 2736

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    Vichy-French newsreel about destruction caused by Allied bombing campaigns

    Overview

    Description
    A newsreel illustrating the damage and suffering caused by allied bombing raids in France. Title onscreen, superimposed over a statue of a woman: "France Meurtrie" [France ravaged]. The camera pans down from the top of a church to show pallbearers removing coffins from the church while crowds of mourners watch. Women weep as the coffins are loaded onto the back of a truck. The cortege passes a square crowded with mourners. A speaker addresses the crowd. His speech is heard over shots of individuals in the crowd, workmen excavating the still-smoldering ruins of a building, various other shots of bomb damage, people picking through rubble, and a black cat among the ruins. A cortege consisting of many trucks carrying coffins travels through city streets lined with mourners. Several clergymen follow the cortege, which passes badly destroyed buildings before arriving at the cemetery. A new scene, perhaps Paris: spectacularly destroyed buildings, including churches and an apartment house, with people picking items out of the rubble. A woman exits a building and gets into a truck marked "Secours National" which was some kind of relief agency. She drives along the streets of Paris and distributes piles of blankets, candles and other goods to a long line of people. More scenes of destruction.
    Duration
    00:05:44
    Date
    Event:  1944
    Locale
    France
    Paris, France
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
    Contributor
    Producer: France Actualites

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Genre/Form
    Newsreels.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    01:32:02:00 to 01:37:46:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2736 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
      Master 2736 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
      Master 2736 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
      Master 2736 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2736 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2736 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2736 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2736 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    Public Domain
    Conditions on Use
    To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in August 2004.
    Copied From
    DigiBeta
    Film Source
    United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 4342
    Source Archive Number: 242 FN 11
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:47:52
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