March of Time -- outtakes -- Scenes from occupied Norway, including Quisling with Nazi officers

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.723.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4078 | Film ID: 2731

Overview

Description: Various scenes in occupied Norway, including: German soldiers load a gun in a bunker located on a Norwegian coast. Exterior of the bunker. Vidkun Quisling, accompanied by several high-ranking Nazi officers, reviewing German or Norwegian troops on a snowy day. Among the German officers are Reichskomissar Josef Terboven and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst. The Karl Johans Gate in Oslo with the Norwegian Parliament, Stortinget, at left and Oslo Grand Hotel on the right. INT of the cellar bar at the Grand Hotel where civilians and German officers drink and fraternize. The camera pans down a large portrait of Hitler that hangs on the wall. Norwegians with rucksacks and other bundles pile into trains and the trains traveling down the tracks. A brief shot of a man and a woman hand-in-hand walking in a bucolic lakeside setting. More shots of German officers and soldiers with Quisling and other Norwegian collaborators. Quisling reviews a group of uniformed girls, probably fascist youth group members.
Film Title: Sweden's Middle Road
Duration: 00:05:07
Date: Event: 1943
Locale: Oslo, Norway
Norway
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: March of Time, Inc.

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Outtakes.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 01:33:45:00 to 01:38:52:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2731 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2731 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2731 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2731 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 2731 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2731 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2731 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2731 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.

Personal Name: Falkenhorst, Nikolaus von, 1886-
Keyword: COLLABORATORS (NORWEGIAN) INVASIONS MARCH OF TIME NORWAY PARADES QUISLING, VIDKUN SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) TRAINS WEAPONS/ARMS YOUTH GROUPS

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: Filmed in Norway for the planned March of Time newsreel called "Sweden's Middle Road." Cameraman's dope sheets available in USHMM files.
Copied From: DBVT; b/w
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 4286
Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 1021 JJJJ
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive