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WWII - 1944, France: Retaking Paris

Reel Number: 220448-10

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1944

Country: France

Location: Place de l’Hotel de Ville, Paris

TC Begins: 15:50:46

TC Ends: 16:01:41

Duration: 00:10:55

WWII - 1944, France: Retaking Paris Sign: Hotel de Ville on back of subway entrance w/ ornate building / Hotel de Ville in background; POV from car past Hotel de Ville w/ Nazi flags flying. Signs in German along plaza. 15:51:14 Multiple direction signs in German, little traffic of cars & bicycles - taken from stopped car. POV 15:51:27 High angle of man running across plaza, overturned cart (?) in street. Unsteady pans from hidden camera. 15:52:32 Street shot of from behind Partisans behind sandbags; MS alongside. MCUs. On bridge firing; road blocks of paving stones & barbed wire; young boys with rifles firing. Two men look out window 15:53:12 Men firing from upper windows seen from inside, opposite Notre Dame. 15:54:25 Men moving guns from sandbags; burned out trucks; soup wagons. 15:54:55 Arrested men into trucks of Free French. Women prisoners from trucks into buildings. Surrendering German soldiers out of buildings & pose in courtyard. 15:56:26 Doctors & nurses w/ flag & wounded out of bldg. Nurse alone in street w/ red cross flag. Moving wounded. Treating wounded on sidewalk. Beat-up men shown to camera. 15:58:10 Free French leaders in building, out & speak to fighters who applaud. Pan people in courtyard singing La Marseillaise (MOS). Soldiers or police salute. 16:00:22 Tilt down Hotel de Ville to blood stains on ground, courtyard activity from above. 16:00:49 Free French VIPs inside building. Women, men. Woman wearing Red Cross armband at typewriter. Man being shaved WW2 Fighting; Liberation; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate.

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