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Soviets defeat Germans at Vitebsk in summer 1944

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1992.252.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0636 | Film ID: 303

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    Soviets defeat Germans at Vitebsk in summer 1944

    Overview

    Description
    Title on screen: Battle of Vitebsk. Map showing Vitebsk (50 miles due west of Moscow), narrator explains the strategic importance of the city and the military situation as it was by June 1944. Soviet army begins assault. German soldiers advance toward city, come across camp of Soviet civilians. LS Russian T34 tanks move to front silhouetted by sunrise, MLS of column of men marching, SU100s, tanks, jeeps, trucks, Katusha rocket launchers, camouflaged armored vehicles move to front through woods and fields. Map of closing Russian circle, insert CU Generals Czernickhowski and Bagramian in middle of map. Map diagrams Russian plan of attack. VS Field artillery, howitzers fire. Russian soldiers wait in trenches with machine guns. AV MS Russian air force planes flying, drop bombs. Artillery bombardment continues. MCU of Russian soldiers crouched in trench. Infantry goes over top and advances across field behind tanks. CU tank and men.

    4:15:34 German dead, wrecked equipment, as Russian tanks race by, LS taking of German prisoners in open field and hustling them back toward Russian lines. Russian fighter bombers strafe at low level. AV plane's eye view of firing and targets. VS Smashed fortifications and German dead in field and trenches. Columns of German prisoners. MLS Russians advance with motorcycle troops and in tanks.

    4:18:06 LS Large crowd of civilian survivors of concentration camp (about 8,000 people were in camp) and soldiers in field. CU of women, infant, individual faces of women crying or distraught. Bodies of several dead including woman. Russian soldiers load woman on stretcher into truck. CU of child then shots of children with Russian soldiers. MS soldiers handing out loaves of bread from truck. CU soldier gives little girl sugar cube, CU of little girl. Man with beard and glasses stretched on ground reads Russian newspaper. Civilian man speaks to Russian officer. Shot from above, long column of refugees walking along road to return home.
    Film Title
    Battle of Vitebsk
    Duration
    00:09:19
    Date
    Event:  1943-1944
    Production:  1944
    Locale
    Vitebsk, Soviet Union
    Belarus
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
    Contributor
    Producer: Central Studio for Documentary Film, Moscow
    Editor: Ilya Kopalin

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Documentary.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    04:10:12:00 to 04:19:31:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 303 Video: One Inch - NTSC
      Master 303 Video: One Inch - NTSC
      Master 303 Video: One Inch - NTSC
      Master 303 Video: One Inch - NTSC
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 303 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 303 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 303 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 303 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    Public Domain
    Conditions on Use
    To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in March 1992. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Learning Center.
    Note
    Other credits: Edited by I. Kopalin; Military Adviser: Major-General S. P. Platonov.
    Copied From
    35mm DNC (P)
    Film Source
    United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 0336
    Source Archive Number: 242 MID 5296
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:47:54
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