Overview
- Description
- Refugee families with heavily loaded wagons cross in front of camera at end of town. Refugees, including children, push bicylces and baby carriages. Tanks pass by. Camera shoots from ground up toward soldiers atop tanks. The soldiers look and sometimes smile at camera. Germans search boarded-up shops, sprawl around city, taking over town. Brief inerior of soldier, asleep in a chair. French POWs entering and exiting building, being rushed down a street by German guard. A couple of civilians, including a woman, with the POWs. Various shots of POWS marching down road, with a tank and flowers growing by roadside. Empty village, much destruction, shot of two military (?) graves. German Army's horses line road. (Good composition.)
- Film Title
-
Westfeldzug 1940. Kaempfe in Nordfrankreich. [Western campaign 1940. Fighting in Northern France.]
- Duration
- 00:05:07
- Date
-
Event:
1940
Production: 1940
- Locale
-
France
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 06:05:05:00 to 06:10:12:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 203 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 203 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 203 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 203 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 203 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 203 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 203 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 203 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany in September 1991. The footage was transferred at Bibo TV in Germany and obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
- Note
- 01:03:35-01:08:41
Timecodes starting with 06: refer to the Master and User (VHS) copies. Timecodes starting with 01: refer to the Protection (Beta SP) copy. - Copied From
- 16mm; b/w
- Film Source
- Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 956
Source Archive Number: 1755 R1+2 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:05:06
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