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WWII - 1944, France: Flag Raising, Burning Building, Wounded During Retaking of Paris

Reel Number: 220448-12

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1944

Country: France

Location: Paris

TC Begins: 16:12:27

TC Ends: 16:23:00

Duration: 00:10:33

WWII - 1944, France: Flag Raising, Burning Building, Wounded During Retaking of Paris Empty streets along Seine, bicyclists, rooftops. Men raising French flag. 16:13:28 Smoke out of building, MS & long shot as people watch. Various angles. 16:15:11 People milling in courtyard. Shots of heavy smoke seen from along Seine. High Angle / HA plaza w/ tanks seen from above. People stand along streets watching. HA building w/ French flag, people in courtyard & across street looking thru fence on opposite side. 16:16:12 People on sidewalk & street looking along street on bank of Seine. 16:16:20 Fort de Romainville; boys & girls painting paper French flags; resistance people drinking. Injured woman bicyclist helped from street. People milling. Free French check point & searching. 16:17:58 Interior: family listens to radio, CUs. Ext. People reading wall posters, CUs. Sign: Rue des Batignolles. HA ambulance backing into building (Hotel de Ville ?) & nurses into building. 16:19:36 Interior courtyard as car leaves building. Woman fighter w/ Red Cross flag. Resistance leaders, includes man w/ arm in sling, arrive & applauded. Walking up interior stairs & into ornate room, shake hands. CUs. 16:21:03 Woman & others kneeling on floor beside telephone. Women typing; man blowing bugle from window. Men sitting, talk & smoke. Searching building. Writing note? View from windows. Man shooting from window & bullet holes in ceiling. Note in typewriter. MCU smile woman, tilt down showing bloody wound. WW2; German Occupation; Occupied France Liberated; Liberation; Free French Underground; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate.

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