Overview
- Description
- Welt im Film. Issue no. 21 (part)
Title: Allierte Kontrolkommission [Allied Control Commission]. Marshal Zhukov stands outside the Berlin building where the first conference of the Allied Control Commission will take place. Eisenhower arrives at the conference, then the French representative, and the British representative, General Montgomery. The narrator notes that the building where the conference will take place was once the home of the Nazi People's Court (Volksgerichthof). Shot of Allied flags. The four men pose in front of the building as the narrator says that the Control Commission is an example of how the Allies are working together.
01:28:59 Title: Kunstschaetze Kommen zum Louvre Zueruck [Art treasures return to the Louvre]. LS of the Chateau de Chambord, where treasures from the Louvre were stored during the war. Shots of crates inside the chateau and crates being removed. Exterior shot of the Louvre, then interiors showing the empty vitrines and walls. Men replace paintings on the walls. CU of a Renoir, Rubens, and the Mona Lisa. CUs of sculptures, including the Venus de Milo.
01:30:49 Title: Kriegsschaeden [War damage]. Shots of destruction in Dortmund. The narrator says that 90 percent of that city was destroyed or damaged and that the Allies are attempting to prevent people from returning to the Ruhr, which is the area that sustained the most damage. Women wash clothes with water from a fire hydrant. A woman washes clothes and hangs them on a line. Nurses work with medicines in a children's home. The narrator says that despite their efforts some 30 percent of newborns in Dortmund die. A nurse and a doctor tend to sick children. - Film Title
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Welt im Film no. 21
- Duration
- 00:05:20
- Date
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Event:
1945
Production: 1945 October 05
- Locale
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Paris,
France
Berlin, Germany
Loir-et-Cher, France
Dortmund, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
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Producer:
Welt im Film Newsreel
- Biography
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The Welt im Film [World in Film] newsreel series was produced by the American and British military governments to support the denazification campaign in Germany and Austria. Screening was compulsory in cinemas in the American and British zones of Germany until the late 1940s.
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Newsreels.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:27:36:00 to 01:32:56:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2850 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2850 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2850 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2850 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2850 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2850 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2850 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2850 Video: Betacam SP - 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 the film excerpts from the National Archives and Records Administration in February 2008.
- Note
- Copyright: Technically the Welt Im Film [World in Film] German newsreels are not in the public domain. Rights are generally held by the Imperial War Museum. However, the Welt Im Film issues sold by the National Archives mainly contain Signal Corps footage which is in the public domain or footage of undetermined Allied forces origin to which no one can claim copyright. Researchers interested in duplication should clear rights through the Imperial War Museum if film excerpts or soundtrack have clear British origin.
- Copied From
- 35mm DNC
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 5020
Source Archive Number: 306 WIF 21 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:45:00
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