Yugoslavia: partisan soldiers; marching; dancing; villagers

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2002.541.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3538 | Film ID: 2511

Overview

Description: Reel 4: Partisan soldiers firing guns. Col. Jagos looking through glasses. Men placing artillery guns in position, horses, men marching. Partisan soldiers resting on roadside, sleeping, writing letters. Solders in trenches; dead German soldier. Soldiers eating lunch. Marching through Sotin; peasants watching as convoy of artillery guns and soldiers march through village. Villagers watching haystack and home burning. Soldier playing the accordion and singing, eating lunch, listening to music; people resting. Dead German soldiers. Soldiers dancing the "Kola" as accordionist plays. Group of peasants with belongings on backs walking back to their village of Mirkovici. Partisan soldiers marching through Vinkovci, villagers waving and cheering; German-destroyed trucks in FG.
Duration: 00:10:52
Date: Event: 1945 April 12
Locale: Yugoslavia
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: United States. Army Air Forces. Combat Camera Unit, 1st.
Camera Operator: Czaja

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 02:32:28:00 to 02:43:20:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2511 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2511 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2511 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2511 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 2511 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2511 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2511 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2511 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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.

Keyword: ARTILLERY CORPSES DANCING DESTRUCTION EATING FIGHTING FIRES GUNS MARCHING MUSIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS PARTISANS PEASANTS SOLDIERS/MILITARY TRUCKS VILLAGES WEAPONS/ARMS WOMEN YUGOSLAVIA

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in May 2002.
Note: AAFCS caption sheet available at NARA.
See also Stories 2385-2387, Film ID 2266; Stories 3529-3534, Film ID 2510 and 2511; and Stories 3535-3543, Film ID 2511 and 2512 for related footage on Yugoslavia.
Copied From: DBVT (35mm MPS); b/w
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 3691
Source Archive Number: 18 CS 3815 R4
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive