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WWII - 1944, France: Le Journal De La Resistance (Paris, 15-25Aug44) R1 of 3

Reel Number: 250020-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944

Country: France

Location: Paris

TC Begins: 14:32:54

TC Ends: 14:42:59

Duration: 00:10:05

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1944, France: Paris Liberation R1 of 3 Titles. 14:33:15 Paris, France. Ext. of Opera , high angle looking down on Nazi Germany military vehicles; soldiers directing traffic of bicycles. Camouflaged German military convoy on Champs-Elysees from above. 14:33:40 Ornate building tanks, trucks w/ soldiers thru empty streets. POV up completely empty Champs-Elysees. 14:34:06 People running across streets; milling about. Man putting up notice on wall, CU of poster to Jeunes Francais! text calling for general mobilization. Group of men reading. 14:34:33 Young people tear down Occupation posters; step on torn photo of General Petain?; defaced painting of Hitler. FFI car past; underground French whispering. Empty stalls on Seine banks; men firing pistols & rifles from windows. Others running, moving along streets & sidewalks. People looking out of bullet pocked stone buildings. Narration talks of citizens taking up arms - “aux armes citoyens”. 14:35:58 People running in street from above; resistance fighters firing from sandbagged windows opposite Notre Dame. Blood on street. Car arrives w/ resistance VIPs, various groups, young & old, some in uniforms at attention at the courtyard of the Hotel de Ville. 14:36:48 CU sign: Rue des Batignolles. Bullet marked walls; man w/ machine gun looking down on street. View of street activities. Ville De Paris / City Hall w/ tattered flags on balcony. 14:37:14 Interior: Man signing paper as another watches; people in street watching balcony. MCU of men around German prisoners & captured German & French soldiers & civilians. Mayor of the 17th arrondissement. High shots of men running in street, men firing from upper windows. cafe signposted “a la garde nagtionale”. 14:38:13 Man talking on telephone in office; young woman writing, typing, on phone. Woman w/ Cross of Lorraine on sleeve. 14:38:25 Men w/ rifles firing on street, others crouched by bicycles beside stone wall. German tanks in street. Man throws grenade into back of truck along street, igniting gasoline or ??; men fall out on fire, resistance drag one away as truck burns violently. Free French soldiers w/ rifles at windows; tanks moving around, dead in street. Man w/ Red Cross flag picks up wounded lying in street. 14:39:33 Man looking out window, pan across bullet damaged room 14:39:42 Helmeted men in street & young w/ rifles looking up streets; firing shots at snipers. Medics walking down street w/ flag & wounded. Stretcher carried w/ wounded; others hurry w/ gurney along cobblestone street. MCU people looking at flowers / wreath by building; CU notice / sign 19 aout ici trois francais sont morts pour France. LS. 14:40:33 Cooks by field cook wagons; guerrilla fighters eating drinking; rinsing dishes; shaved in doorway by barbers. 14:40:55 LS of large businesses on rue de Rivoli - La Samaritaine, Andre shoe shop; tripod camera lying in street; men cutting down large street tree w/ axe, men & women digging up cobblestones & constructing barricades. Children too. Sandbagging around old truck. Waiting w/ rifles & guns. Moving artillery. High angle shots of barricaded streets. FFI; French Resistance Fighters; 1944; German Occupation Overthrow; Fighting; Battles; Aug44; WWII; WW2; Paris Liberation; Underground; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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