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Newsreel clips: Africa; UN condemns Nazi persecution of Jews; Pepper & Willkie; bombing of Italy

Film | Accession Number: 2002.549.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3524 | Film ID: 2572
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Paramount News Vol. 2, No. 36.
01:36:36 "Africa - Fighting French and American Drive" (Voice of Gregory Abbot) US and Free French troops march in Tunis. Shows the Sultan of Morocco. 01:37:12 "Fighting French Manpower" French prisoners join the free French forces. 01:37:54 "The Yanks Still Come Home" US soldiers disembark. 01:38:30 "Holiday Train Wreck" (Voice of Henry Gladstone) The wreckage of two trains in Dixon, IL. 01:39:05 "United Nations Condemn Nazi Mass Slayings" (Voice of Gregory Abbot) Includes views of German persecution of Jews, book-burning, and concentration camps. 01:39:41 "Two Americans Speak for True Freedom" Sen. Claude Pepper speaks. 01:40:32 "Now, Wendell L. Willkie" Wendell Willkie speaks. 01:41:34 "Yank P-38s reach New Guinea" P-38 fighter planes are unloaded in Australia, guns are mounted on them, and they take off. 01:42:44 "Bombing of Italy" RAF bombers attack Genoa, Italy.

Film Title
Paramount News
Duration
00:08:15
Event Date
December 1942
Locale
Africa
Germany
United States
Italy
Language
English
Genre/Form
Newsreels.
Credit
Accessed at US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Sherman Grinberg Film Library
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About This Film

Production Date
1942
Contributor
Producer: Paramount Pictures
B&W / Color
Black & White
Image Quality
Good
Time Code
01:36:30:00 to 01:44:45:00
Film Format
  • Master
    • Master 2572 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
  • Preservation
    • Preservation 2572 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Special Collection
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Film Provenance
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in 2002.The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's special exhibition in 2003 on Nazi bookburning, "Fighting the Fires of Hate."
Note
Newsreel with voice of Gregory Abbot and Henry Gladstone.
Copied From
DBVT; b/w
Film Source
United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number
Legacy Database File: 3668
Source Archive Number: 200 PN 2.36

Rights and Restrictions

Copyright
Copyright. Sherman Grinberg Film Library
 
Record last modified: 2018-12-11 11:57:57
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