Overview
- Description
- Various LS views of camp. CU of a searchlight, the camera pans down to the square of the camp, smaller searchlights are in the FG. Camera pans down to barracks and across the plaza. People are scattered and walking around. MS of a clock/tower (from side), closer shot. CU of a prisoner's back with marked coat (a square of striped fabric over a red X). There is a crowd behind him. Another survivor with similar marking on back (no X). CU of a survivor with a hat, explaining something, gesturing in a wheel-like motion with hands, a patch with an X is on her back, dancing around in a circle. CU of a man showing his rotten/missing teeth. CU of a tattoo. CU of a young man with glasses. CU of an older man who takes off his cap. CU of a boy looking around, he smiles and laughs at the end. US soldiers sit near the edge of a road. Smoke comes from a bomb. Jeeps drive and soldiers run through the deserted town. (soft focus) Tanks, US infantry walk through streets. Shots of civilians and soldiers in the village. Tanks in field, cemetery. Sign reading "Nach Borenden 4 km." Tankers in front of wrecked town. US troops/tanks move through small village. Various shots of people leaving town with bags and baby carriages. CU of an armband with a red cross symbol.
- Duration
- 00:15:25
- Date
-
Event:
March-April 1945
- Locale
-
Buchenwald,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army Air Forces.
Camera Operator: Irene Madsen
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Color
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 02:46:29:00 to 03:01:54:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 3 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 3 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 3 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 3 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 3 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 3 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 3 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 3 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- 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
- Keyword
- BARRACKS BUCHENWALD CHILDREN CIVILIANS CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) DISPLACED PERSONS (DP) FACTORIES GERMANY JEEPS LIBERATION MILITARY ADVANCES MUD SIGNS/POSTERS SMOKE SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL) SURVIVORS TANKS TATTOOS TEETH UNIFORMS USHMM (PERMANENT EXHIBITION) VILLAGES
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in March 1991. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
- Note
- Incorrectly labeled on USHMM tape (the slate reads 9116). This is 18 SFP 9115.
Footage is also available on Sub-master PD #20: Liberation by Americans Reel 1.
USHMM replaced the online streaming video with a new, higher resolution digital file produced for the VHH project. The 16mm film source from NARA was scanned by the Austrian Filmmuseum in 2021. - Copied From
- 16mm; color
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 142
Source Archive Number: 18 SFP 9115 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:07:31
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