Overview
- Description
- Ardeatine Caves Massacre, Italy. EXT shots of Rome streets. Sign on wall: "Catacombe di San Callisto." Entry into cave, INT of cave hallways. Vehicle. MLS, entrance to cave. Sign: "Via Rasella." Aerial view, street in Rome. Cart. Still photographs. EXT, shutters of window. VAR, EXT pocked walls. Still photograph showing corpses piled in front of stone wall and men with hands behind their heads. CU, man's face. VS, CUs documents with names of victims. Aerial shots, city buildings, MLS, apartment building with windows open.
Note: 320 Italian civilians were murdered in Ardeatine Caves on March 24, 1944. It is likely that this film was recorded months later, during the summer of 1944. - Duration
- 00:09:58
- Date
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Event:
1944 July
Production: 1944
- Locale
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Rome,
Italy
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 02:11:52:00 to 02:21:50:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 844 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 844 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 844 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 844 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 844 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 844 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 844 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 844 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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- 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
Administrative Notes
- 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
- USHMM replaced the digital video file created from videotape in 2013 with a new 2K scan from 35mm in February 2020. The scans were made by NARA's Motion Picture Preservation laboratory as part of the Horizon 20/20 project: "Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age" - https://www.vhh-project.eu/en/.
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1271
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 2856 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:06:16
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