Overview
- Description
- The NARA record states that this film shows "the rubble of a European town devastated by Germans." Civilians and US Army soldiers (engineers?) watch as a bulldozer clears the rubble from a bombed building. After the bulldozers have moved the large pieces of debris, the soldiers use shovels to continue digging for bodies of those buried in the ruins. Soldiers escort a distraught man away from where they are digging. A long shot of several devastated houses, then a shot of what used to be the interior of a house, with a photo still hanging on the wall. A woman digs through the rubble piled on her balcony. A weeping woman holds a baby. Excavated corpses, some of them children, lie in the grass. Close-ups of the corpses. Another shot of the distraught man as he is comforted by other men, who are also weeping.
- Duration
- 00:03:33
- Date
-
Event:
1945
- Locale
-
Europe
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army Pictorial Service.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 01:30:22:00 to 01:33:55:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2800 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
Master 2800 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
Master 2800 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
Master 2800 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2800 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2800 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2800 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2800 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Rights & Restrictions
- 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 this from the National Archives and Records Administration in August 2005.
- Copied From
- DBVT
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4690
Source Archive Number: 18 C 340 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:49:56
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