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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220472-25
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1944,1940s
Country: France
Location: Paris
TC Begins: 09:53:05
TC Ends: 10:00:50
Duration: 00:07:45
WWII - 1944, France: Liberation Of Paris - Day of Rejoicing In The Lives Of All Free Men Main title: Movietone News over eagle & military montage. 09:53:31 Intertitle: Liberation Of Paris - Day of Rejoicing In The Lives Of All Free Men. 09:53:43 French Armoured Division across fields, fighting outside Paris w/ tanks firing. Driving thru burning town. Women in surrounding towns kiss soldiers. General Leclerc. 09:54:44 High Angle / HA Street fighting in Paris. FFI / Free French shooting behind barricades & trees. Children run for safety. Wounded Black FFI member held by others. Civilians hiding from bullets. German military car under fire. 09:55:43 German soldier shot; a woman takes his gun & he is dragged away. Burning vehicle. People in front of burned down hotel & debris. 09:56:41 Corpses of French people murdered by Nazis inside enclosure. 09:56:51 Barricade is opened. Allies enter & people wave. Vehicles past Notre Dame, La Concorde & Champs Elysees. GOOD. 09:57:40 Free French & Allied troops w/ tanks in street fighting. 09:58:20 Nazis surrender. Germans thru city on vehicle jeered at. Nazi prisoners run out of building as crowd watches. 09:58:57 More Nazis marched thru city. Allied soldiers hold up portraits of Hitler & Goering impaled on bayonets. Celebrations by Opera. Stars and Stripes held up. Canadian flag on building. 09:59:35 Parisian women on vehicle w/ soldiers. Women kissing soldiers. People hold out newspaper L’Aube w/ headlines re liberation. More women on truck kissing soldiers. 10:00:27 De Gaulle arrives & people wave. Arc de Triomphe. 10:00:45 End title: “Back The Attack Buy War Bonds Now”. WW2; 1940s; Celebration;