Overview
- Description
- Trial of Marshal Henri Petain, Fortress Montrouge (outskirts of Paris), July 1945. MSs, crowds entering palace courtyard after credentials are checked by guards. VS, Palace of Justice. MSs, Pierre Mongibaud, President of the High Court, enters palace. Anteroom shots (dark), civilians and military enter; group watches from stairs. MSs, EXT, bedroom window of palace. Room formerly occupied by Petain. MSs, CUs, correspondents working in press room. LS, policemen and firemen on palace roof. INT of courtroom, Petain enters, sits in chair flanked by guards. INT, witnesses appear; Michael Clemenceau, Paul Reynaud, Albert Thebrun. INT, jurors, correspondents and general scenes of court activities. Prosecutor addresses the court. Petain's counsel speaks. Correspondents busily write their notes, etc. CU, Solicitor General Mornet taking notes. MS, police truck is driven to palace gate. MS, Petain reading from notes.
- Duration
- 00:08:43
- Date
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Event:
1945 July
- Locale
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Paris,
France
- 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
- 02:18:10:00 to 02:26:53:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2526 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2526 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2526 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2526 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2526 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2526 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2526 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2526 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 this from the National Archives and Records Administration in May 2002.
- Note
- USHMM replaced the online streaming video with a file from NARA (digitized Digital Betacam tape) in August 2019.
- Copied From
- DBVT; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 3756
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 9863 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:06:07
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