Overview
- Description
- A newsreel illustrating the damage and suffering caused by allied bombing raids in France. Title onscreen, superimposed over a statue of a woman: "France Meurtrie" [France ravaged]. The camera pans down from the top of a church to show pallbearers removing coffins from the church while crowds of mourners watch. Women weep as the coffins are loaded onto the back of a truck. The cortege passes a square crowded with mourners. A speaker addresses the crowd. His speech is heard over shots of individuals in the crowd, workmen excavating the still-smoldering ruins of a building, various other shots of bomb damage, people picking through rubble, and a black cat among the ruins. A cortege consisting of many trucks carrying coffins travels through city streets lined with mourners. Several clergymen follow the cortege, which passes badly destroyed buildings before arriving at the cemetery. A new scene, perhaps Paris: spectacularly destroyed buildings, including churches and an apartment house, with people picking items out of the rubble. A woman exits a building and gets into a truck marked "Secours National" which was some kind of relief agency. She drives along the streets of Paris and distributes piles of blankets, candles and other goods to a long line of people. More scenes of destruction.
- Film Title
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Vichy French News, No. 11, 1944
- Duration
- 00:05:44
- Date
-
Event:
1944
- Locale
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France
Paris, France
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
France Actualites
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Genre/Form
- Newsreels.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:32:02:00 to 01:37:46:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2736 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
Master 2736 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
Master 2736 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
Master 2736 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2736 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2736 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2736 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2736 Video: Betacam SP - color - 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.
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in August 2004.
- Copied From
- DigiBeta
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4342
Source Archive Number: 242 FN 11 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
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- 2024-02-21 07:47:52
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