Yugoslavia: soldiers dancing; officers and prisoners; villagers

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2002.541.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3541 | Film ID: 2512

Overview

Description: Reel 7: Soldiers dancing in streets of Vinkovci, accordion player. US ambassador Richard C. Patterson and US officers in Dakovo, entering cathedral - pan, steeple to partially damaged church. Patterson, Kusovac Labud, Yugoslavian Propaganda Chief, and Col Charles Thayer looking through field glasses at fighting. Group of officers leaving German prison. Soldiers riding in horse-drawn carts on way to front, Patterson and officers watching from jeep. Officers interrogating prisoners. CUs, men eating. 03:15:23 Partisan General Peko Dapcevic with an American official (Gen Dapcevic became Tito's chief of staff). They leave in an automobile.

03:16:22 Slate: "Combat Camera Unit 1, Camera 5, Date 4-20, Yugo, Take 1" Locals buying and reading newspapers; vendor selling papers. Street scene in Clerks Colony, people walking and riding horse-drawn carts in residential area; women and children washing in slum area, CUs.
Duration: 00:09:32
Date: Event: April 20-21, 1945
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.

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 03:10:07:00 to 03:19:39:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2512 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2512 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2512 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2512 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 2512 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2512 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2512 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2512 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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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: CARTS/WAGONS CEREMONIES CHILDREN CHURCHES DANCING DESTRUCTION FIGHTING INTERVIEWS MILITARY OFFICERS NEWSPAPERS PEASANTS PRISONERS PRISONS SOLDIERS/MILITARY SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) VILLAGES 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: 3694
Source Archive Number: 18 CS 3815 R7
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive