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Rommel at El Alamein

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.458 | RG Number: RG-60.3892 | Film ID: 2686

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    Rommel at El Alamein

    Overview

    Description
    Graphic of a map, labeled "Afrika". The narrator states: "On the Egyptian front." Panning shot of desert, showing a soldier on watch at the Qattara Depression, near El Alamein. Rommel giving orders to another officer, surrounded by soldiers. They peer through binoculars and consult a map. The narrator states that the defense of El Alamein is being discussed in detail. Italian and German paratroopers are shown carrying equipment across the desert. They are shown setting up and shooting guns and skirmishing with British troops, some of whom are captured in their trenches. German tanks during battle. Shots of burning British tanks, British POWs. After making gains against the British, Rommel's advance was stalled, and he dug in his defenses at the El Alamein line in July 1942. The battle of El Alamein between the British and the Germans, which the Germans lost, took place in November, 1942.
    Duration
    00:03:58
    Date
    Event:  October 1942
    Production:  1942 October 29
    Locale
    El Alamein, Egypt
    Africa
    North Africa
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of George R. Wheeler
    Contributor
    Producer: Deutsche Wochenschau

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Genre/Form
    Newsreels.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    01:13:23:00 to 01:17:21:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2686 Film: positive - 16 mm - sound - composite print - B-wind
      Master 2686 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2686 Film: positive - 16 mm - sound - composite print - B-wind
      Master 2686 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2686 Film: positive - 16 mm - sound - composite print - B-wind
      Master 2686 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2686 Film: positive - 16 mm - sound - composite print - B-wind
      Master 2686 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2686 Film: negative - full-coat mag track - 16 mm - polyester - sound - duplicate negative - Kodak - 3234
      Preservation 2686 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2686 Film: negative - full-coat mag track - 16 mm - polyester - sound - duplicate negative - Kodak - 3234
      Preservation 2686 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2686 Film: negative - full-coat mag track - 16 mm - polyester - sound - duplicate negative - Kodak - 3234
      Preservation 2686 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2686 Film: negative - full-coat mag track - 16 mm - polyester - sound - duplicate negative - Kodak - 3234
      Preservation 2686 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
    Conditions on Use
    Researchers who wish to use this footage should contact the Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv at filmbenutzung@bundesarchiv.de to sign a release, or submit the online request form at: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Content/Downloads/request-for-use-av-material.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    George R. Wheeler obtained this collection of wartime films from his late wife's first husband, Mr. Givens, who received the films from an acquaintance and watchmaker, Mr. Greenberg. Greenberg smuggled them out of Germany in the late 1930s or early 1940s. Mr. Wheeler, himself a member of the 94th Engineers Regiment during World War II, donated the 16mm films to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2003.
    Note
    Original film canisters located in Museum offsite storage. Donor of the collection had no information as to the copyright status. The numbers found in the "Source Archive #" field of the USHMM database are the original German newsreel numbers and production dates, as found in Bucher, Peter. "Wochenschauen und Dokumentarfilme 1895-1950 im Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv" Koblenz: Bundesarchiv, 1984.
    Film Source
    George R. Wheeler
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 4107
    Source Archive Number: DW 634/45/1942
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:55:41
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