Overview
- Description
- Col. Redding chronicles the progress of the 303rd Field Artillery, primarily in Germany, includes DPs, POWs, and camps for Russian and Polish refugees.
Map of Marienbad. Footage of the spa town around May 5, 1945. Newspaper headlines: VE Day; "Churchill, King George Speak Today." GIs on lawn in front of hotel. Radio. Roads with released German POWs. Unit camps in field. Eating at table in field, setting up generator, setting up tents, writing home, boxing up souvenirs, kegs of beer come in. 12:26:16 Nuremberg Stadium, WS. (May 29 sent to Le Havre, France), Red Cross entertainment in field, canteen serves donuts.
Left France on former cruise ship "Brazil", shots on deck. 12:31:00 (dawn views?) Arrive New York City harbor, view of Statue of Liberty, people waving, skyline. POV of NYC skyline soft against pinkish-gray sky, presumably dawn. 12:32:37 Uniformed men disembark.
12:32:53 Refugees on road with bicycles and loaded carts. Field along road. MS Russian and Polish workers just released (DPs) in Germany, makeshift camps, food cooking, CU of women. Women and small child living in trench being surveyed by American soldier. MS refugees moving through city streets, large mass of displaced civilians clog road in Sudeten region as Czechs forced Germans out. LS camp set up in tree lined field. People in this camp. People set up camp at railroad station waiting for train going in direction they wanted. People in station and people resting on pavement just next to tracks. Women washing their feet. Red Cross soup kitchen in railroad car at Pilsen station to feed DPs including children, waiting in line for food. - Film Collection Title
- Col. J.W. Redding Collection
- Duration
- 00:18:39
- Date
-
Event:
1945 May
Production: 1945 May
- Locale
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Czechoslovakia
Le Havre, France
New York, NY, United States
Germany
Nuremberg, Germany
- Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of J.W. Redding
- Contributor
-
Camera Operator:
Joseph W. Redding
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Amateur.
- B&W / Color
- Color
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 12:19:55:00 to 12:38:34:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 310 Video: One Inch - color - NTSC
Master 310 Video: One Inch - color - NTSC
Master 310 Video: One Inch - color - NTSC
Master 310 Video: One Inch - color - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 310 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 310 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 310 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 310 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 310 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 310 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 310 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 310 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
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- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Colonel Joseph W. Redding
- Conditions on Use
- Col. Joseph W. Redding is deceased and there is no next of kin to permit use for third parties. The Museum has made reasonable efforts and has not been able to identify and/or locate a copyright owner of this film. The Museum therefore places no restrictions on use of this material, but cannot provide any information to the user about the copyright owner. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used. If you have information regarding the copyright owner, please contact filmvideo@ushmm.org.
- Copyright Holder
- Colonel Joseph W. Redding
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- BICYCLES CARTS/WAGONS CHILDREN COMMUNICATIONS CZECHOSLOVAKIA DISPLACED PERSONS (DP) DISPLACED PERSONS (DP) CAMPS EATING ENTERTAINMENT FRANCE GERMANY HARBORS MAPS POWS (GERMAN) RED CROSS REFUGEES SHIPS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) STADIUMS STATUE OF LIBERTY STREETS SUDETENLAND SURVIVORS (POLISH) SURVIVORS (SOVIET) TENTS TRAIN STATIONS UNITED STATES WOMEN
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- Col. J.W. Redding sent a VHS tape consisting of 8mm film he shot during the war to the U.S. Army Military History Institute Audiovisual Archives at Carlisle Barracks, PA. It contains Col. Redding's voiceover narration. The original film footage has no sound. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum transferred one reel of Col. Redding's 8mm film to videocassette via John E. Allen labs in New Jersey in May 1992.
- Note
- Very good scenes of refugees, good quality.
Col. Redding narrated a videotape of his 8mm film which provides additional details and context. It is available in Film and Video's wild collection. - Copied From
- 8mm orig color rev pos
- Film Source
- Colonel Joseph W. Redding
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1056
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:54:07
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