The last days in Paris before the Arrival of US Troops. Street barricades; firing rifles from windows; FFI men rounding collaborators; captured German soldiers; Red Cross workers helping wounded; ceremony at City Hall; raising flag; new Prefect of Police; wounded man; barber.

Paris Liberation, 1946-1947. INT of partisan headquarters in Paris. Fixing armbands with FFI. Examining revolver. Digging up cobblestones for barricades. Partisans firing rifles. Dead men lying the street. German car fleeing. FFI men carrying boxes of ammunition. Man reading "Liberation" newspaper. CU of "Liberation" front page.

This is an excerpt from a film about German film history which was produced in 1942. Berlin during the revolution of 1918-1919. Intertitles describe the scenes. Armed men, members of the "Republican protection troops," patrol in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Men stand beside big bundles of shot-up rolls of newspapers that they have erected as barricades. A car loaded with armed men drives off down ...

Map of Poland and Silesia region. VS on snowy streets, Polish civilian refugees on horsecart and truck are led from city. MCU Polish soldiers and Russian prisoners marching through town street. Volkssturm build barricades. VS refugees board train. VS People are given ID papers and fed meals prepared by German Red Cross. CU Men with fur caps and "Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht" armbands being issued ...

Reel 1: Half-tracks, tanks, and infantry move through the streets of Paris. FFI placards, announcing France's liberation, are posted. FFI trucks move through Paris. Snipers fire from windows at German troops. FFI recruits are sworn in and armed. Grenades are thrown at German vehicles. Street barricades are erected.

Fall of Paris. American GIs marching on road in Etamps (outside Paris), holding pictures of Hitler and Goering on bayonettes. Road sign, "Paris 50." People waving at passing Americans. GIs in jeep unfurling American flag, crowd cheers. US tanks enter Paris, pass Eiffel Tower. Civilians building sandbag barricade. Tanks firing at snipers in Paris outskirts. Street fighting in Paris outskirts. Jeepload ...

Reel 2: FFI and German units fight in the streets. Collaborationists are rounded up. Gestapo torture chambers are examined; prisoners are released. FFI wounded are treated. A rifle is seized from a wounded German. FFI riflemen fire from barricades at German tanks. Shows smashed German vehicles and German POWs. Allied tanks and motorized info enter the city. The tricolor is raised and German signs torn ...

Contains a set of four 78 rpm phonograph albums, entitled "Un Micro Dans La Bataille De Paris - 20-26 Août 1944." Tracklist: A) Du Maquis À La Bataille De Paris (Voice – Le Général Joinville) B) Aux Batignoles C) Au P.C. De L'insurrection D) La Nuit Des Barricades E) La Préfecture De Police F) Les Cloches De La Libération G) Attaque De La Concorde Par Les Chars De La Division Leclerc H) Le Général ...

Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and a contingent of officers inspect coastal fortifications in occupied France (?). The men walk across a beach toward a large buliding. The camera pans across a line of barricades. Large guns are shown in their emplacements. German soldiers in action: firing guns from camouflaged positions, explosions in the distance. Closer shots of ...

Map of the Eastern Front, indicating Warsaw, Breslau, Kattowitz, Litzmannstadt, and other locations. German refugees on horse-drawn carts with their belongings move West, fleeing the "Mongol storm." Shots of Soviet POWs. Civilians build barricades to defend against the Soviets. Refugees board trains to get away from the front. The woman getting on the train wears an armband bearing the insignia of ...

"Revolt in Prague" film (Czech government material). Several shots of Czech citizens in Prague tearing down German inscription and signs, May 3-4, 1945. Czechs hanging Allied flags from buildings. German military police setting up sub-machine guns in street, and German policeman walking in streets. Mob of Czech patriots dispersed by German police. MS Czech patriot on the air in seized radio station. ...

Arthur Mainzer (1923-) was a cameraman in the 4th Combat Camera Unit of the 9th Air Force. The Combat Camera Unit was tasked with creating Air Force training films at Hal Roach Studios. After completing training at the Air Force Photo Technical School in Denver, CO and the First Motion Picture Unit in Culver, City, CA, Mainzer was deployed to Europe. He was filming bomb damage by the Allied Air Forces ...

George Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. During World War II, Stevens joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946 under General Eisenhower. His unit shot footage documenting D-Day — including the only Allied European Front color film of the war — the liberation of Paris and the meeting ...

Ukrainian narration. Title: "Ilya Grigorievich Ehrenburg speaks." He and several men, are seated around a large table having a discussion. Anniversary of Sholem Aleichem. Staged wedding in a kolkhoz. Jewish people, song in Yiddish. Intertitle in Russian reads, "Kiev met those who would surrender not an inch of our land". Prewar Kiev, before the arrival of the Germans. Red Army parade. Soldiers dancing ...

"Le Journal de la Resistance" Title: "Realise clandestinement et sans aucun moyen materiel entre le 16 et le 26 aout 1944 par une equipe de cineastes de la Resistance, ce film apporte a la France et au Monde un temoignange authentique sur la Liberation de Paris" View of Paris just prior to liberation. Empty street, trucks, Germany rebuilds, tank. Men running in street, hanging posters. CUs, various ...

Women with shovels, working, men erecting barricades and makeshift fortifications. VS of soldiers working. A newspaper headline reads: "The Fascists shall not be allowed to take the capital of Soviet Ukraine. Everything for the defense of our home, of all we love!" A sign (possibly at a movie theater) reads "Showing: Reports from the Front of the Patriotic War". People stand in street, looking at the ...

“Václav Kostelecký. Květnová revoluce 1945.” AGFA logo. Picture reportage from Prague at the end of WW2 filmed by Vaclav Kostelecky from April 30 to May 16, 1945. View of the Prague Castle from a hillside. Mr. Kostelecky inspects a camera. Prague Castle and the top of the Church of Saint Nicholas. Intertitle: “30. duben 1945” April 30, 1945 Prague Castle and a building, perhaps the former headquarters ...

Film title on screen: Le DANEMARK LUTTE POUR SA LIBERTÉ 1943-44 (Denmark's Fight for Freedom), followed by two screens of French text. The film depicts events in Denmark during the occupation. Some of the footage was shot clandestinely by the Danish resistance. Brief shot of a church and birds in the sky, followed by scenes of German soldiers and sailors marching through the streets. Different views ...

Reel 1: 00:21:40 Panning shots of buildings severely destroyed in an air raid in Paris. German soldiers enter the city as civilians watch from the sidewalks. Two French police are seen standing in the street, crowds of locals on the sides, watching as German soldiers on bicycles enter. German soldiers on horseback crossing the bridge in front of Notre Dame. German soldiers stop and inspect a car. German ...

The Welt im Film [World in Film] newsreel series was produced by the American and British military governments to support the denazification campaign in Germany and Austria. Screening was compulsory in cinemas in the American and British zones of Germany until the late 1940s.

A group of Italian school girls, escorted by nuns, followed by a group of young boys in uniform. Uniformed men with feathered hats march down the street. Women in native costume. A panning shot shows a huge building surrounded by Nazi flags and a crowd of spectators behind a barricade. Uniformed young girls march down the street. Uniformed boys, some with rifles and some playing drums. Long shot of ...

Title on screen: Ozaphan 12/39 Monatschau; Die Wacht am Westwall [The watch on the West wall]. The West wall was a German defense line along the western German border. Two German soldiers sit on a hilltop overlooking a river. One looks through binoculars and points into the distance. German soldiers march down into a concrete bunker (part of the West wall) with a relief of a soldier carved around the ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...