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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221287-02
Color: Colour
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1944,1940s
Country: Italy
Location: Caserta,Naples,Pompeii
TC Begins: 18:16:16
TC Ends: 18:41:01
Duration: 00:24:45
WWII - Color, Italy: Home Movies Pt. 1 of 3 Large Italian monumental fascist Victory Arch. Across it: “Caserta Ai Suoi Eroi” beneath statue of Italian soldier. 18:16:50 Jeep past on rocky road lined w/ olive (?) trees. Jeep approaches camera. Two British sailors (?) & two women walking w/ dog up road on rocky hillside past camera & keep walking. POV from jeep along road, w/ mountains beyond. Meeting truck on narrow road. Three men in horse or donkey pulled wagon down road. Steep rocky hillside. 18:20:33 POV from DC-3 (?) past engine flying over land. View from cockpit behind pilots. POV out side window low over Italy countryside & buildings in early morning light. Along railroad. View from cockpit w/ sea visible. Dark. Fighter plane taxiing, another flying over. 18:22:44 Bright sunshine & Army Air Force fighters taxing. Man walking past sign to tent: Transient Personnel Report Here Telephone, Mess, and Transportation. Airman runs up, gets book & runs back (gag?) Men by runway w/ fighters warming up & taxiing away for take off (not seen). Wrecked plane visible. 18:25:00 Men watching bulldozer alongside runway, planes moving. Heavy smoke in background. Fighters over in formation. Planes on runway. POV from plane past bombers parked w/ wrecked hanger behind. POV from plane over countryside fields, shadow on ground. POV over large farm buildings & along coast. 18:29:04 Posters on wall of FDR, Churchill, an Italian & boot stomping on Italy. Two women along front of building past barbed wire barricade. City square w/ pedestrians & traffic (dark). Men towards camera. Large statue on pedestal w/ people sitting at base, pan around park. Bus stop for Pompeii. 18:30:43 Men & women (black market?) on sidewalk (brief). 18:31:16 Ext. building w/ crest above door (very dark. Street from upper window w/ pedestrians; buildings damaged. American military women walking. Carved sone on top of church (?). Large buildings w/ heavy bomb damage. US servicemen past in horse cart. Soldier shaving seen from behind w/ small mirror hanging on window. 18:33:26 Large ash cloud from volcano eruption, Vesuvius (?); servicemen watch from across valley. 18:35:32 Pan over bombed village on hillside. View along & from. US army jeep w/ two men. Villagers shoveling rubble. Jeeps & trucks on road. Mine warning sign. Heavy rubble along coast; bombed town & docks. Army trucks past w/ soldiers in back. Women & men walking past. POV from jeep along damaged stone walls. Women carrying packages on head. Large cart pulled by horse. Overhead shot of couple riding in horse cart. 18:38:45 Large building w/ 3 flags on tall poles: U.S., British & Italian (?). Many military vehicles parked & passing; civilian & military pedestrians. US sailors & soldiers; view around square & buildings. (GOOD) Post Italian Liberation; Italy LIberated;