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WWII - 1944, Italy: Ardeantine Caves Massacre - People Viewing Site And Pictures of Victims, Newspaper, Priests, Hospital ca 26Jul-Dec44

Reel Number: 300001

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1944,1940s

Country: Italy

Location: Ardeantine Caves,Rome

TC Begins: 01:00:04

TC Ends: 01:11:37

Duration: 00:11:33

WWII - 1944, Italy: Ardeantine Caves Massacre - People Viewing Site And Pictures of Victims, Newspaper, Priests, Hospital ca 26Jul-Dec44 MS Crucifix on Italian flag w/ portrait / pictures of victims , pan more pictures on cave wall. 01:00:58 MCU Civilian man, woman next to him. 01:01:08 CU Portrait pinned to cave wall of boy; another of man. 01:01:24 MS Older woman standing beside younger woman (looking at pictures?), another older woman. 01:01:44 CU Portraits of 2 men w/ card reading “padre e figlio, uniti fella vita, stretti nella morte” (father and son, united in life, close in death). 01:02:01 CU Woman talking toward another off camera. 01:02:15 CU Newspaper article w/ pictures of men; article reads “the slaughter of March 24th, 7 shot in one family” (in Italian). Picture of Italian soldier next to it w/ card (in Italian): “In memory of Amadeo Lidonnici.Rome, ?7 January 1918, 24 March 1944”. 01:02:36 MS Wreaths in tunnel with pictures on wall. 01:03:05 HA / High angle of crowd standing (outside cave?), cut to Catholic priest & 2 altar boys before crowd during service / Mass w/ altar & wreaths in background, priest gives communion. Priest giving sermon, armed soldier / police standing before crowd, VS crowd & Mass ceremony. 01:06:57 Exterior MS Men w/ distraught women; distraught woman taken away by doctor & another man, crying women follow, tent in background. Similar shots of crying women being taken away thru crowd by Italian soldiers 01:08:04 HA crowd leaving cave , women crying. 01:09:47 MS View thru bars of man carried to bed by doctor, another doctor stands by bed & helps. Man sitting in bed alone w/ food on stool. Bars moved across lens, bars on window in background (prison?). CU man sitting in bed not looking at camera. 1940s; WW2; German Atrocity Aftermath; Murders; Deaths; NOTE: Coverage of Finding and recovery of 320 Italian civilians murdered in Ardeantine Caves.

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