Overview
- Description
- Captured German POWs are marched in a column by American soldiers, who smile into the camera. Motorcycles drive past the column of prisoners. The camera pans across POWS, some of whom are wounded. POWs sit in a field. They stand in rows and are counted. POWs shown removing dead/wounded Allied soldiers from a field. A crowded shot of POWs shown lying or sitting switches to much smaller groups of three or four, who look at the camera. Wounded, including a man with a large bandage over his eye. POWs receiving medical treatment. Supplies being unloaded from a truck. Prisoners behind barbed wire with an armed sentry marching back and forth. View of a mess line, with prisoners in the foreground bending over to wash dishes. Close up of the men washing dishes. General Edwards inspects a 210 mm Howitzer. Men stack ordnance (??). Camera pans across a large number of cannons; close ups of two of the cannons. Wide shot of weapons in a town square with a clock tower in the center. Ordnance men inspect and repair heavy field pieces and German rifles. A man in a suit and a helmet speaks to soldiers. Prisoners entrain at Mery and depart for Paris. Prisoners work on a French farm near Chateau-Thierry. They march to the fields with scythes and other farm implements. They cut and bail hay, which forms a huge pile.
- Film Title
-
The Aisne-Marne Operations
- Duration
- 00:10:30
- Date
-
Production:
1936
- Locale
-
France
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 02:01:08:00 to 02:11:38:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 59 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 59 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 59 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 59 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 59 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 59 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 59 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 59 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 59 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 59 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 59 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 59 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
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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.
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- Thaxton Green Studios, Inc., the production company hired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to produce the film titled "Nazi Rise to Power" in the Permanent Exhibition, purchased this footage from various archival repositories and other archival sources from September 1991 to June 1992. Consult Film Archive staff for specific source details.
- Film Source
- Thaxton Green Studios, Inc.
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 3898
Source Archive Number: 111 H 1366 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:50:22
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