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Warsaw uprising in 1944

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.715.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4332 | Film ID: 2745

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    Warsaw uprising in 1944
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    Description
    Part 1. Warsaw uprising of 1944, which began on August 1 and lasted for 63 days. Film opens with poor quality still photos and names of uprising fighters. Credits and music play. Footage of the people of Warsaw preparing for the uprising. They prepare bandages, guns, bullets. People create barricades and lay communications cable. Fighting in the streets. Men swimming and shaving in a river. Interior shots of men and women of the Home Army forces printing partisan newspapers. Young boys run out of a building carrying the papers for delivery. Polish Home Army movements in the streets. 00:09:32 A Polish band plays. A priest speaks to a group of men. More battle scenes, smoke rising from bombed buildings, injured people carried down the street on stretchers; an operation in a makeshift hospital. Civilians scurry between sandbags and trenches, carrying bundles of belongings. Women carry children and cook out of doors. Severely wounded people lying in the streets. Piles of corpses. A female courier places a letter in a box. People running between rubble and barricades. A priest gives communion.
    Film Title
    Warszawa Walczy
    Duration
    00:13:21
    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
    00:00:47:00 to 00:14:08:00
    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

    Rights & Restrictions

    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
    Contact FINA customer service team at dokument@fina.gov.pl for permission to reproduce and use this film.

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    Administrative Notes

    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: 4632
    Source Archive Number: F 4050 cz.I
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:58:42
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