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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221595-39
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1935,1936
Country: Abyssinia,Ethiopia,Italy
Location:
TC Begins: 03:00:24
TC Ends: 03:10:58
Duration: 00:10:34
Titles of modern art deco style graphics Pan across village along gravel road w/ bridge over dry river & mountains behind; people moving about. Truckloads of Italian soldiers parked; men loading crates into smaller open trucks, forward over bridge. Convoy of troop trucks; natives by road watching. Men w/ spears. Crooked road, men pulling on trucks. 03:02:55 High angle of convoy snaking across mountain plain, intercut w/ trucks on mountain road. Herders watching. Pan across to valley from mountains. 03:04:31 Trucks over rough road, fording stream in mountains. Continuing up dusty road & passing small truck. 03:06:09 Fording small stream w/ truck, motorcycle, cars. Another stream w/ truck of horses crossing. Men pulling trucks w/ ropes; pushing car thru mud. Pushing & pulling trucks w/ ropes. 03:08:14 Small Italian tanks fording stream. Back up of trucks. 03:08:53 Unloading trucks, camp, buildings under trees, cooking very small chicken outdoors. 03:09:23 CU hand cranking motion picture newsreel camera; chickens on skewers turning over fire. MS Cameraman getting meat. Soldiers eating & drinking. Night & men work at building bridge given food. Trucks cross. 03:10:53 LS trucks crossing plain. Italo-Ethiopian War; 1935; 1936; Italy Military Propaganda; Abyssinia; NOTE: Narration says its the last phase of the Ethiopian Campaign w/ motorized troops led by Maresciallo Badoglio from Dese to Addis Ababa along the Imperial Road (L Strada Imperiale).