Overview
- Description
- Low aerial shots of the Arno river with destroyed bridges and houses. People walk along the river and cross the Ponte Vecchio, which was the only remaining bridge over the Arno. Civilians walk along a street. A sign reading "Curfew for all troops 21:00 hours" appears on a brick wall. Italian police check the papers of several people as they walk from "no man's land" into Florence (from the dope sheet). There are destroyed buildings in the background. More shots of people on the Ponte Vecchio. An old man with a young boy look across the river at ruined buildings. Shot of a sign reading "Ponte Vecchio permesso il passaggio solo per pedoni e carrette a mano." Street scene with many people passing by large piles of rubble. Men walk down a street. Some of them are armed. The dope sheet indicates that these are partisans who are aiding people who have escaped from a German prison camp on the outskirts of Florence. The dope sheets states that there were about 1000 people in the camp and that the prisoners escaped through the sewer system. Shots of the bedraggled men receiving cigarettes from an American officer. Men climb out of a sewer hole; partisans rush to help him. Citizens stand in line to receive water from trucks full of purified water. A young boy fills up an empty wine bottle with water. A shot of a row of spigots and a young girl filling a bottle. In another location, women fill up containers of water from a spigot attached to a building. Some of the women wash clothes.
- Film Title
-
Report on Italy
- Duration
- 00:09:40
- Date
-
Event:
1944 August
- Locale
-
Florence,
Italy
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
March of Time, Inc.
Camera Operator: Navarro
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Outtakes.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 01:46:10:00 to 01:55:50:00
- 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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- 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
- Cameraman's dope sheet available in departmental files.
- Copied From
- DBVT; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4289
Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 1103 K - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:45:34
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