Overview
- Description
- American Troops Shell and Occupy San Pietro, Italy, December 18, 1943. American engineers enter the ruined town. American soldiers round up German prisoners; MP soldier guards prisoners. MCU, CU, German prisoners. American paratrooper escorts German prisoner through field to POW enclosure. VS, Italian civilians return to their ruined homes in San Pietro; civilians leave caves and air raid shelters. MCU, American soldiers speak to Italian civilians. MCU, Italian women and children stand at doorway of ruined home. The woman motions that they are hungry. MCU, CU, Italian children. MS, MCU, hysterical Italian stands before ruins of his home; camera pans to ruins as man points. MS, ruins and wrecked buildings. MS, MCU, US medics go over battlefield below San Pietro and remove dead in litters. Pan, ruins of city and the valley below where the American troops are under heavy German mortar artillery fire. LS, German artillery shells burst below city near Cassino; three American soldiers pass by in FG.
- Duration
- 00:09:27
- Date
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Event:
12/18/1943
- Locale
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Italy
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 04:18:40:00 to 04:28:07:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2517 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2517 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2517 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2517 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2517 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2517 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2517 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2517 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.
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 May 2002.
- Copied From
- 35mm DNS; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 3711
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 328 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:49:37
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