Overview
- Description
- War preparations in Paris. Sandbag fortifications around the Arc de Triomphe and the Tomb of the Unkown Soldier. Edvard Benes, exiled president of Czechoslovakia, is received by Czechs living in Paris. The dope sheet states that the meeting took place at the same house on the Rue Bonaparte where Benes and Tomas Masaryk founded the Czech Republic after World War I. A group of men rises and claps as Benes enters in the company of Stefan Osusky, the Czech ambassador. A man identified as Stransky welcomes Benes. Benes speaks.
Scenes inside the Polish embassy showing Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, the President of the Polish government-in-exile, with Wladyslaw Sikorski, the Prime Minister, among others. Sikorski and Raczkiewicz are shown together almost alone in the frame at 01:37:10. Raczkiewicz is the taller of the two men. The scene switches to show Edvard Benes and Stefan Osusky, the Czech ambassador, talking on a balcony. Then Benes and General Sergej Ingr consult a map.
01:40:23 A ceremony held at a Paris synagogue to commemorate Poland's war dead. Good shots of Rabbi Isaie Schwartz, Chief Rabbi of France. A group of men hold the Polish flag in front of them. Shots of the audience, including the Barons Robert and Edouard de Rothschild. People leave the synagogue. - Film Title
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War Coverage -- France No. 1
- Duration
- 00:09:50
- Date
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Event:
October 1939
- Locale
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France
Paris, France
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
March of Time, Inc.
Camera Operator: Marcel Rebiere
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Outtakes.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:32:05:00 to 01:41:55:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2729 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2729 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2729 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2729 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2729 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2729 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2729 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2729 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- 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.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the National Archives and Records Administration in July 2004.
- Copied From
- 35mm DNS; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4274
Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 727 G - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:44:31
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