Overview
- Description
- Part 2. Warsaw uprising of 1944, which began on August 1 and lasted for 63 days. Buildings in Warsaw on fire during the uprising. Fighting in the streets; Polish Home Army soldiers lay communications wire. Children watch a puppet show. More destruction; a nurse hands out buckets of water from big wooden casks. People on the move in the streets amid shooting and fires. 00:17:03 Priests remove sacred objects from a church. 00:17:16 A cameraman filiming a burning building. Men bury a casket. A makeshift graveyard. Men load a rifle and shoot at a target. Several uniformed young boys watch. People gather buckets of water from a broken pipe. A long line of people holding bukcets wait for water. People take shelter in lean-tos and other makeshift shelters. Interior shots of people sleeping. Women cooking out of doors. Pan of destroyed buildings. People are transported to a hospital by stretcher. A priest officiates at a marriage ceremony between a soldier and a woman wearing a red cross band. More street fighting. Several big bonfires at night. 00:24:45 People rush to open a parachute of supplies (weapons?) dropped on Warsaw. People dig bodies out of the rubble of a bombed building. Shot of uniformed Polish soldiers fighting, receiving weapons. 00:29:33 Poles pull a German officer out of a bunker. More captured Germans with their arms raised. A smiling Pole with captured German weapons.
- Film Title
-
Warszawa Walczy
- Duration
- 00:17:20
- Date
-
Event:
August-October 1944
- Locale
-
Warsaw,
Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Filmoteka Narodowa
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Poor
- Time Code
- 00:14:09:00 to 00:31:29:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2745 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2745 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2745 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2745 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL- Preservation
Preservation 2745 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2745 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2745 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2745 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- Filmoteka Narodowa
- Conditions on Use
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- Copyright Holder
- Filmoteka Narodowa
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage from WFDiF (Documentary and Feature Film Studio, Film Archive) in Warsaw, Poland in May 2004.
- Film Source
- Filmoteka Narodowa
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4633
Source Archive Number: F 4051 cz.II - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
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- 2024-02-21 07:58:42
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