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March of Time -- outtakes -- Food delivery to liberated Paris

Film | Accession Number: 2004.724.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4105 | Film ID: 2735

Scenes in liberated Paris. Jubilant crowds carrying an American and a British soldier on their shoulders. Tanks and trucks crowded with people through the streets. British and French flags. Germans are driven through the crowd in jeeps. People jeer as they pass by. Brief shot of high-ranking German officers. The dope sheet indicates that they are at the train station being shipped to an internment camp.

01:21:50 Trucks carrying food supplies arrive in Paris. Crowds surround the trucks and people wave to the camera. Soldiers unload big bags of flour or sugar while the crowd cheers. Signs and flags on some of the trucks indicate that the food is coming from England. Soldiers kiss girls and vice versa.


Duration
00:06:56
Date
Event:  1944 September
Production:  1944
Locale
France
Paris, France
Language
Silent
Genre/Form
Outtakes.
Credit
Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
 
Record last modified: 2022-07-28 22:03:01
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