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Chateau Thierry - Part 4

Reel Number: 220912-07

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1944

Country: Belgium,France,Germany,Holland,Netherlands

Location: Maastricht,Nijmegen,Paris

TC Begins: 15:49:47

TC Ends: 16:01:28

Duration: 00:11:41

Chateau Thierry - Part 4 re American army on way to Germany Underexposed top shot street. MCU Cameraman filming skies. Skies and clouds and plane (hardly visible). 15:51:12 Stevens fly fishing in stream. Observing countryside with binoculars. Nijmegen, Netherlands - Town Square and sign in French and Flemish - street scenes with pedestrians and trams. GIs eating and drinking by jeep. Ruins. Sign “Haaren”. Soldier by lake. Plane trails in sky. Signs “Stolberg, Werth, Hastenrath”. Jeep on muddy road. 15:56:15 Cameramen filming parade in Paris with Eiffel tower in bg and French flag in FG - US Army parade. La Madeleine. VIP stand. Tanks parade. CU finger pointing at map. 15:57:41 Foggy day near Maastricht - GIs on road near house with Amstel Beer sign painted -truck convoys past. Road signs for Maastricht. Plane trails in sky. MP checking vehicles. Stevens writes “Merde” in snow. Stevens opens wrapped-up present. Jeep drives through heavy ruins. 16:00:00 Remnants of badly bombed-out village or town. Sign “Duren - Eschweiler”. Countryside with abandoned German equipment. Use of this footage requires a credit as follows: “Includes footage from the George Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress”

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