Destruction of Warsaw, Poland

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1024 | Film ID: 929

Overview

Description: Examines the destruction of Warsaw by the Nazis during September 1939 and the efforts of the Polish underground to rebel. Warsaw under siege in 1939 cityscape smoke rising. Germans shelling. People running through scarred city street. VS of destruction. German troops and vehicles advance along road. Smoke rising from city square. Dead horses on their sides, men cutting meat off of horses, horse skeletons in street, fires. Polish and German officers at surrender ceremony in bus. Occupation and ruins. Various activities of underground, man on his knees in tunnel, firearms, printing pamphlets, man setting type and running press, distributing pamphlets, German poster announcing executions in Lublin. Men pasting anti-Nazi posters, graffiti, still photographs. Wrecked bridges and trains. Destroyed remnants of ghetto. Large cardboard cartoon figures of Hitler hoisted onto wall and lamp post and underneath "Nur fuer Deutsch." Warsaw on fire, newspaper headlines in English telling of beginning of 1944 uprising. Flashbacks of prewar Warsaw.
Film Title: Tale of A City
Duration: 00:10:16
Date: Event: 1939-1944
Locale: Warsaw, Poland
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: Polish Army Film Unit

Language: English
Genre/Form: Documentary.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Mixed
Time Code: 02:18:00:00 to 02:28:16:00
Film Format: Master
Master 929 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 929 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 929 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 929 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 929 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 929 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 929 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 929 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.

Keyword: DEMONSTRATIONS (ANTI-NAZI) DESTRUCTION FIRES GERMAN OCCUPATION GHETTOS HORSES INVASIONS NEWSPAPERS POLAND POSTWAR RESISTERS/RESISTANCE (POLISH) RUINS SIGNS/POSTERS SMOKE SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (POLISH) SURRENDER WARSAW GHETTO WARSAW UPRISING (1944)

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
Note: Commentary by James McKechnie.
See Story 612, Film ID 301 for duplicate footage.
Copied From: 35mm; b/w; composite
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 1508
Source Archive Number: 306.210
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive