Overview
- Description
- The French army in action: tanks, soldiers shooting, dead horses by the side of the road. German prisoners behind barbed wire. Close-ups of individuals as they are questioned and registered by their French captors. Scenes of destroyed buildings shot from a moving vehicle; French soldiers attempt to shoot down a plane. Refugees traveling along a road. Women and children are helped from a truck. One woman is carried on a stretcher. Paris being bombed. Burning buildings, dead cows in a field. Badly destroyed houses, shops and cars. People pick their way through the rubble; a woman runs past a burning vehicle.
- Film Title
-
On Foreign Newsfronts
- Duration
- 00:02:24
- Date
-
Event:
1940
Production: 1940
- Locale
-
France
Paris, France
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
March of Time, Inc.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Outtakes.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:16:51:00 to 01:19:15:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2730 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2730 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2730 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2730 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2730 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2730 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2730 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2730 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 the film excerpts from the National Archives and Records Administration in July 2004.
- Note
- Outtake from edited March of Time story "On Foreign Newsfronts."
- Copied From
- 35mm DNS; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4279
Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 780 PPP - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:45:34
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