Overview
- Description
- Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and a contingent of officers inspect coastal fortifications in occupied France (?). The men walk across a beach toward a large buliding. The camera pans across a line of barricades. Large guns are shown in their emplacements.
German soldiers in action: firing guns from camouflaged positions, explosions in the distance. Closer shots of the men using field telephones and consulting maps. Low aerial shot of a group of soldiers; they move out across a field. More shooting. Soldiers advancing through heavy cover and across a river. Men loading guns; a brief shot of a group of officers, one of whom looks through a field telescope. - Duration
- 00:04:06
- Date
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Event:
1940
- Locale
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France
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
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Producer:
March of Time, Inc.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Outtakes.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 01:52:01:00 to 01:56:07:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2733 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2733 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2733 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2733 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2733 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2733 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2733 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2733 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- 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.
- Copied From
- 35mm MPP; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4304
Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 1026 C,E - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:47:49
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