Overview
- Description
- Long lines of German prisoners and US military in a city square. 02:15:00 US tanks parade through city street, shops behind, civilians cheering. Soldier talking with Austrian civilians. CUs, German prisoners marching, bicycle, open jeep. Some prisoners riding in jeep. (AUSTRIA slate) 02:17:40 More German prisoners marching (very blurry), conducting traffic in city streets. HAS, lake/river with quick shot of a civilian getting water. Long line of prisoners march by wrecked railroad cars. Pan of wreckage with prisoners marching by, looting, trucks, mountains in distance. Two lines of German prisoners marching in opposite directions by camera (some men quite young - teenage boys). Long lines of prisoners. 02:21:54 Fire at night. 02:23:22 Smoke clearing away after shell hits near church. MS, trucks and half tracks full of German prisoners driving by camera, some civilians watch. Camera pans showing wreckage at marshalling yards. Wreckage.
Three American POWs carving a rabbit and a bird at Moosburg. GIs cooking over a small stove. CU, stew. Camera pans showing men at mess. Good view of Moosburg camp. Pan, US military behind wire fence of came, posing for the camera, chewing gum and smoking. CU, soldiers dig into a large stockpot containing stew made with rye and sawdust. CU, American eating and drinking. More shots of the newly liberated men at leisure, including a group of African-Americans at a tent camp, one trimming the hair of another. Laundry hanging on wire fence to dry. - Duration
- 00:14:36
- Date
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Event:
1945 April
- Locale
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Austria
Germany
Moosburg, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
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Producer:
United States. Army Air Forces. Combat Camera Unit, 4th.
Camera Operator: Murphy
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Color
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 02:13:55:00 to 02:28:31:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2903 Video: Digital Betacam - b&w and color - NTSC - large
Master 2903 Video: Digital Betacam - b&w and color - NTSC - large
Master 2903 Video: Digital Betacam - b&w and color - NTSC - large
Master 2903 Video: Digital Betacam - b&w and color - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2903 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2903 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2903 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2903 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large- User
User 2903 Video: DVD - b&w and color
User 2903 Video: DVD - b&w and color
User 2903 Video: DVD - b&w and color
User 2903 Video: DVD - b&w and color
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- Copyright
- Public Domain
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Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the National Archives and Records Administration in March 2010.
- Note
- Moosburg - Prisoner of war (POW) camp known as Stalag 7A which housed 29,284 Allied prisoners, including Francis J. Morrissey of Dayton, Ohio. (Half were Americans, mostly Air Corps; included among remainder were Russian, British and French prisoners.)
- Copied From
- 16mm INSK
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 5453
Source Archive Number: 18 SFP 9169 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:05:26
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