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WWII - 1944, France: Free French Retaking Paris, Street Fighting & Medics & Nurses

Reel Number: 220448-13

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1944

Country: France

Location: Paris

TC Begins: 16:23:14

TC Ends: 16:32:07

Duration: 00:08:53

WWII - 1944, France: Free French Retaking Paris, Street Fighting & Medics & Nurses LS along streets w/ debris & wreckage, burning vehicle in distance. Free French, some w/ rifles watching. Building Samaritaine w/ overturned truck at base. Bicyclists around abandoned tank in road. Burning vehicles, people stand around on pavement. 16:24:16 Tracking shot from care thru empty streets w/ fires seen. Crowds on streets milling around burned out cars & trucks. Partisans w/ rifles. Top shot body lying in street near tank. 16:25:02 Celebrating FFI around German tank. Black man carrying pistol climbs down from tank - good shot as he stands waving large French flag. Group of men paint over camouflage on car. 16:25:51 Groups of triumphant men walk along street. 16:26:29 Priest escorted by Red Cross men. High Angle / HA ambulance along empty street. Various shots buildings. Top shots medics wheeling empty stretchers along road. Overhead of open truck carrying body ? Top shots men running with guns; several wounded into ambulances. Various shots of medics & people on the streets. 16:28:44 Group w/ souvenir of leather coat. FFI move away from snipers; burning vehicle. Germans seen in street. Flowers against wall & sign which says 19th August, three French died here for France. Hanging sheet w/ German writing. 16:30:04 Overturned vehicles blocking intersection, pan people standing around. Exterior building - sign Au Marronier on corner. Group of men & boys on streets digging up street for roadblock. Nurse & medics running wi stretcher bearers. People watching heavy smoke. Free French on van past cinema. Small artillery gun set up. More burning vehicles. Group of Free French resistance leaders in courtyard WW2; German Occupation; Occupied France Liberated; Liberation; Free French Underground; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate.

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