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George Stevens World War II Color Film Collection

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    Overview

    Collection Summary
    During World War II, George Stevens joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946 under General Eisenhower. His unit shot 16mm color film documenting D-Day, the liberation of Paris, and the meeting of American and Soviet forces at the Elbe River, as well as horrific scenes from the Duben labor camp and the Dachau concentration camp. Stevens helped prepare the Duben and Dachau footage and other material for presentation during the Nuremberg Trials. In 2008, this footage was entered into the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as an "essential visual record" of World War II.

    Administrative Notes

    Film Source
    Library of Congress - Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS)
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    Liberation at Duben

    Film | Accession Number: 1992.261.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0660 | Film ID: 307

    Date
    Event:  1945 April 15
    Production:  1945 April

    Liberation at Dachau

    Film | Accession Number: 1992.261.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0661 | Film ID: 307

    Date
    Event:  May 2-7, 1945
    Production:  1945 May

    First film documentary of the events of D-day

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1098 | Film ID: 2997

    Date
    Event:  June 6-9, 1944
    First film documentary of the events of D-day

    Fall of Paris, 1944

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1462 | Film ID: 2996

    Date
    Event:  August 17-24, 1944

    American entry into Paris

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1463 | Film ID: 2996

    Date
    Event:  1944 August 25

    Survivors at Dachau; service

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1464 | Film ID: 2996

    Date
    Event:  1945

    Liberation in France; French collaborator

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1465 | Film ID: 2996

    Date
    Event:  1944?

    Liberation of Paris, France

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1466 | Film ID: 2996

    Date
    Event:  August 8-24, 1944

    US soldiers resting at campsite

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2678 | Film ID: 957

    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944

    St. Lo in ruins; German prisoners

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2679 | Film ID: 957

    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944

    Victory in St. Lo; rubble; US military parade; German prisoners

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2680 | Film ID: 958

    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944

    US Army liberates Paris

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2681 | Film ID: 958

    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944

    US Army kissing French girls; parade

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2682 | Film ID: 959

    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944

    Town square; monument & signs

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2683 | Film ID: 959

    Date
    Event:  1944-1945

    US liberates French towns

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2684 | Film ID: 960

    Date
    Event:  1944-1945

    Refugees; captured Germans; bombed towns; GIs; marching into Paris

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2685 | Film ID: 960

    Date
    Event:  1944-1945

    Brussels garrison

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2687 | Film ID: 960

    Date
    Event:  1944-1945

    Military vehicles; Christmas; devastated town

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2688 | Film ID: 961

    Date
    Event:  1944-1945

    Russians meet Americans at Torgau; refugees

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2689 | Film ID: 961

    Date
    Event:  1945 April
    Production:  1945

    Russians meet Americans at Torgau; dancing

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2690 | Film ID: 961

    Date
    Event:  1945 April
    Production:  1945

    Stevens & Moffat at Elbe River

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2691 | Film ID: 961

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    German planes

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2692 | Film ID: 961

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Damaged German planes

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2693 | Film ID: 962

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    German military hospital; liberated German town

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2694 | Film ID: 962

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Captured German troops and GIs; airfield

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2695 | Film ID: 962

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Liberation of Nordhausen; Red Cross; V2 rockets

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2696 | Film ID: 962

    Date
    Event:  1945 April 15
    Production:  1945

    German civilians; German troops; Elbe River bridge

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2697 | Film ID: 962

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    GIs firing mortars; German prisoners and weapons

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2698 | Film ID: 963

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Americans meet Russians

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2699 | Film ID: 963

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    GIs; battered corpses; Dachau camp victims

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2700 | Film ID: 963

    Date
    Event:  1945 May 02
    Production:  1945

    Dachau at liberation; delousing; identifying German captors; religious ceremony

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2701 | Film ID: 963

    Date
    Event:  May 2-7, 1945
    Production:  1945

    GIs swimming; Brenner Pass

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2702 | Film ID: 963

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Destroyed town in Belgium

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2703 | Film ID: 963

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    War destruction in Belgium

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2704 | Film ID: 963

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Airplane takes off; destroyed German plane

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2705 | Film ID: 963

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Airplanes

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2706 | Film ID: 964

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    US soldiers in uniform

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2707 | Film ID: 964

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Bomb destroyed Europe

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2708 | Film ID: 964

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    US military inspecting weapons

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2709 | Film ID: 964

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Makeshift military airport

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2710 | Film ID: 964

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Touring Berlin, postwar

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2711 | Film ID: 964

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Driving tour of postwar divided Berlin; Russian women

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.2712 | Film ID: 964

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Ship at sea

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3182 | Film ID: 965

    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944

    GIs visit pyramids; ships

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3183 | Film ID: 965

    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944

    American military parade; seaside town; GIs swimming

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3184 | Film ID: 965

    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944

    Foreign troops

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3185 | Film ID: 965

    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944

    Tanks in combat in seaside town

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3186 | Film ID: 965

    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944

    At sea, ships & landing craft

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3187 | Film ID: 965

    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944

    Still photographer shoots Stevens & camera crew on board ship

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3188 | Film ID: 966

    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944

    Landing craft; cameramen; on beach

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3189 | Film ID: 966

    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944

    Wounded soldier; US ships at dock

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3190 | Film ID: 966

    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944

    Liberation of French town; civilians; church

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3191 | Film ID: 966

    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944

    RAF airfield; US military advances

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3192 | Film ID: 966

    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944

    Destroyed town in France; dead German soldiers; campsite

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3193 | Film ID: 966

    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944

    Generals and medal ceremony; GIs resting at campsite

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3194 | Film ID: 966

    Date
    Event:  1944 July 04
    Production:  1944

    Fishing boats; African woman

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3195 | Film ID: 967

    Date
    Event:  1944

    Dachau at liberation; Stevens

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3196 | Film ID: 967

    Date
    Event:  May 2-7, 1945
    Production:  1945

    Clearing rubble in Berlin; GIs

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3197 | Film ID: 967

    Date
    Event:  1944-1945

    At leisure

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3198 | Film ID: 967

    Date
    Event:  1944-1945

    GIs; German landscape

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3199 | Film ID: 967

    Date
    Event:  1944-1945

    Sphinx; battle in desert; bazaar; fighter plane

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3200 | Film ID: 967

    Date
    Event:  1944

    Traveling through the Alps

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3201 | Film ID: 967

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Berchtesgaden; GIs relaxing at campsite

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3202 | Film ID: 967

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Liberation of Czechoslovakia; refugees

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3203 | Film ID: 967

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Refugees crossing bridge

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3204 | Film ID: 968

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Dutch harbor and GIs with cameras

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3205 | Film ID: 968

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Dutch civilians and GIs

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3206 | Film ID: 968

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    War destruction in the Netherlands

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3207 | Film ID: 968

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945

    Dutch civilians; ferry boats

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.3208 | Film ID: 968

    Date
    Event:  1945
    Production:  1945
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