Overview
- Description
- French liberated prisoners. US soldiers and ammunition, firing from tank. Tanks on village street. Airplanes dive bombing. MCUs German POWs. German civilians. Damaged gate entrance reading in part "Trier." German civilians departing town; horse, oxen, and tractor drawn wagons loaded with possessions. 01:07:20 Slate reads "Luxembourg, April 14, 1945" Germans with belongings on carts. CUs, displaced persons in line for water on city plaza, waving to camera, holidng up water cans (staged). Digging with shovels. April 16, 1945 - MCUs, German children in park, in Wiesbaden, Germany, wrestling. Aerial shots, damaged Ludendorf Bridge over the Rhine River in Cologne. Aerial long shots of Cologne Cathedral and bombed city.
- Duration
- 00:16:20
- Date
-
Event:
1945 April
- Locale
-
Cologne,
Germany
Wiesbaden, Germany
Luxembourg
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army Air Forces.
Camera Operator: C E. Nerpel
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Color
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 01:00:10:00 to 01:16:30:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2258 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Master 2258 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Master 2258 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Master 2258 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2258 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2258 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2258 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2258 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
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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 July 2000.
- Note
- Cameraman's dope sheet available in departmental files.
- Copied From
- 16mm
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2340
Source Archive Number: 18 SFP 9117 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:47:17
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