Overview
- Description
- Part 1. Warsaw uprising of 1944, which began on August 1 and lasted for 63 days. Film opens with poor quality still photos and names of uprising fighters. Credits and music play. Footage of the people of Warsaw preparing for the uprising. They prepare bandages, guns, bullets. People create barricades and lay communications cable. Fighting in the streets. Men swimming and shaving in a river. Interior shots of men and women of the Home Army forces printing partisan newspapers. Young boys run out of a building carrying the papers for delivery. Polish Home Army movements in the streets. 00:09:32 A Polish band plays. A priest speaks to a group of men. More battle scenes, smoke rising from bombed buildings, injured people carried down the street on stretchers; an operation in a makeshift hospital. Civilians scurry between sandbags and trenches, carrying bundles of belongings. Women carry children and cook out of doors. Severely wounded people lying in the streets. Piles of corpses. A female courier places a letter in a box. People running between rubble and barricades. A priest gives communion.
- Film Title
-
Warszawa Walczy
- Duration
- 00:13:21
- Date
-
Event:
August-October 1944
- Locale
-
Warsaw,
Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Filmoteka Narodowa
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Poor
- Time Code
- 00:00:47:00 to 00:14:08:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2745 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2745 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2745 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2745 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL- Preservation
Preservation 2745 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2745 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2745 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2745 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- Filmoteka Narodowa
- Conditions on Use
- Contact FINA customer service team at dokument@fina.gov.pl for permission to reproduce and use this film.
- Copyright Holder
- Filmoteka Narodowa
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage from WFDiF (Documentary and Feature Film Studio, Film Archive) in Warsaw, Poland in May 2004.
- Film Source
- Filmoteka Narodowa
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4632
Source Archive Number: F 4050 cz.I - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:58:42
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