Refugees fleeing Belgium and France; destruction

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.188.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3685 | Film ID: 2617A

Overview

Description: [Refugies sur le bord d'une route - Nord de la France, Mai 1940] Refugees fleeing villages between Belgium and France. Planes in air, cut in. "Evacuation" sign on bus. Children, elderly, others onto truck/bus, sleeping child in arms. Air attack. Fierce scenes just after fall, flames. Storefront, "Bazar Parisien." Big fires, houses along square, church tower, burnt and falling, broken sculpture, INT. "Femmes Medecin" ruins. "Medecin Maternite" smoldering cots. Wounded nun. Tracking shot of street, low buildings, destruction. Planes in sky. Civilians hide under brush lining road, in courtyard. Dead child, family, bed. Boy with wounded foot, x-ray, doctor, carrying coffin thru village, weeping mourners, small church graveyard. CU, captured Germans, good CUs. Prisoners brought in, some injured. Interrogation, lines. More Germans, walking in courtyard behind barbed wire. Burning planes on ground, flames. CUs.
Duration: 00:08:08
Date: Event: 1940 May
Locale: France
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Etablissement Cinematographique et Photographique des Armees

Language: French
Genre/Form: Newsreels.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 00:51:06:00 to 00:59:14:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2617 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2617 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2617 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2617 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Preservation
Preservation 2617A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2617A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2617A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2617A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2617A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2617A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2617A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2617A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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Copyright: Établissement de Communication et de Production Audiovisuelle de la Défense
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Copyright Holder: Établissement de Communication et de Production Audiovisuelle de la Défense

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the archival segments on video from E.C.P.A. Photo Cinema Video des Armees in Paris, France in 1998.
Film Source: Établissement de Communication et de Production Audiovisuelle de la Défense
File Number: Legacy Database File: 3854
Source Archive Number: J 34
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive