Overview
- Description
- American troops of the 4th Division advance through fields and woods. They take cover in trenches and behind trees. According to NARA the tanks are M-4 tanks and the howitzer is a 105mm on an M-7 motor carriage. Long shot down a road. Smoke billows in the distance. More howitzers firing. Close-up of shells being loaded and fired. Two captured German soldiers are marched down a road. 01:14:45 Sign at the entrance to a devastated town reads Cherence le Roussel. American soldiers advance through the town, looking for snipers. A soldier marks a mine with a flag. Young soldier holding a telephone handset attached to a pack on his back. He looks at the camera. Lots of rubble and destruction.
01:16:25 Laval, France, August 7, 1944. Troops of the 79th Division, 315th Infantry, crossing a bridge and entering Laval. Jeeps enter the town as local civilians watch from the sides of the road. People clap and wave at the passing soldiers. Wide shot of the town square. People wave French flags. Military Police direct traffic. Civilians scramble for sweets (?) thrown from a tank by American soldiers. Soldiers kiss and pose for the camera with French girls. Female collaborators with shaved heads are escorted through the streets by members of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI; Forces Francaises de l'Interieur) One wears a hand-made swastika on her chest and carries a page from a photo album with photos of Nazis. Shot of a jeep with American Military Police. One of the collaborators is in the front passenger seat, only visible for a moment. An old woman holds a potrait of Hitler and throws it to the ground. Street scenes of many people walking bicycles through devastated streets. A priest and a nun speak with people. - Film Title
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Invasion Scenes, 08/08/1944
- Duration
- 00:07:54
- Date
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Event:
1944 August
- Locale
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Cherence le Roussel,
France
Laval, France
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
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Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:11:32:00 to 01:19:26:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2816 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2816 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2816 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2816 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 2816 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2816 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2816 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2816 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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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 January 2006.
- Note
- USHMM replaced the online streaming video with a file from NARA (digitized Digital Betacam tape) in August 2019.
- Copied From
- DBVT
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4798
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 10435 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:06:08
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