Behind Nazi Guns Pt. 1 of 2
Presented by U.S. Navy - Captured film cut to give Americans insight into Nazi war effort.
Narrated by William L. Shire
Opening explanatory titles.
05:01:54 POV from low plane over German countryside & town.
05:02:17 Bombs fall from plane, explosion. Int. Steel mill; German tank factory, CU workers making weapons. German husband w/ pipe & wife at home listening to radio. CU Goebbels, other Nazi. Antennas. CU husband w/ pipe, CU wife. Town square & old lady, busy market street before war. Docks, Industry.
Steel used for peaceful purposes: workers at Krupp, bridges, modern apartment houses; trains, cars and other steel work. CU factory workers Krupp. Chemistry laboratory w/ scientists in white overalls.
Wide overhead shot countryside. Peasants in field raking hay w/ train in BG. POV from train.
05:04:25 Overhead train in Berlin, past Alexanderplatz, pre-war Berlin, cars, policeman. Riders on horses. Soup kitchen. Berlin at night. Beer poured. Cancan dancers, fireworks. Working-class Germans in pub. 05:05:28 Montage: soapbox speaker, people argue, policeman intervenes. Brown Shirts parade; Hitler makes speech, angry crowd raise fist. Men tear posters on wall at night. Boots goose-stepping. Hitler w/ party at opera standing, Nazi salute, Reich’s eagle.
05:06:24 Factory workers make artillery. Nazi soldiers marching, CU & LS. Anschluss. Nazi soldiers on horseback past border into Vienna, Austria. German VIPS stand, crowd salute at parade, war planes in formation.
05:07:29 Axis meet in Munich, Mussolini, Fascist soldiers. Nazi parade, MCU Hitler speech. Crowd at rally, Nazi salute. Rudolf Hess shouting ‘Sieg Heil”. Swastika flag, cannons fire, panzers & sidecars in countryside in Poland. War plane, paratroopers out. German paratroopers on road wave Nazi flag as tanks past. Hitler in Berlin parade, crowd, CUs.
05:09:10 Luftwaffe pilots & planes. Panzer. POV shot from panzer thru field crossing to Russia; Japanese officers shaking hands with German dignitary, Axis agreement. German submarine sets off. Telegraph workers receiving & sending messages. GOOD.
05:10:09 View from Submarine viewfinder; wolfpack diagram. Inside submarine operation, torpedo fires. Ship explodes. German navy officer decorated. Going inside submarine, submarine going underwater, crewmember looking thru periscope. Bomb falling from plane, explosions.
Pre-WWII Germany; Pre-WW2 Industry; Daily Life; Propaganda; German Homefront; 1930s; 1940s;
NOTE: any continuous 10 minutes of film sold at per reel rate.
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Behind Nazi Guns Pt. 1 of 2 Presented by U.S. Navy - Captured film cut to give Americans insight into Nazi war effort. Narrated by William L. Shire Opening explanatory titles. 05:01:54 POV from low plane over German countryside & town. 05:02:17 Bombs fall from plane, explosion. Int. Steel mill; German tank factory, CU workers making weapons. German husband w/ pipe & wife at home listening to radio. CU Goebbels, other Nazi. Antennas. CU husband w/ pipe, CU wife. Town square & old lady, busy market street before war. Docks, Industry. Steel used for peaceful purposes: workers at Krupp, bridges, modern apartment houses; trains, cars and other steel work. CU factory workers Krupp. Chemistry laboratory w/ scientists in white overalls. Wide overhead shot countryside. Peasants in field raking hay w/ train in BG. POV from train. 05:04:25 Overhead train in Berlin, past Alexanderplatz, pre-war Berlin, cars, policeman. Riders on horses. Soup kitchen. Berlin at night. Beer poured. Cancan dancers, fireworks. Working-class Germans in pub. 05:05:28 Montage: soapbox speaker, people argue, policeman intervenes. Brown Shirts parade; Hitler makes speech, angry crowd raise fist. Men tear posters on wall at night. Boots goose-stepping. Hitler w/ party at opera standing, Nazi salute, Reich’s eagle. 05:06:24 Factory workers make artillery. Nazi soldiers marching, CU & LS. Anschluss. Nazi soldiers on horseback past border into Vienna, Austria. German VIPS stand, crowd salute at parade, war planes in formation. 05:07:29 Axis meet in Munich, Mussolini, Fascist soldiers. Nazi parade, MCU Hitler speech. Crowd at rally, Nazi salute. Rudolf Hess shouting ‘Sieg Heil”. Swastika flag, cannons fire, panzers & sidecars in countryside in Poland. War plane, paratroopers out. German paratroopers on road wave Nazi flag as tanks past. Hitler in Berlin parade, crowd, CUs. 05:09:10 Luftwaffe pilots & planes. Panzer. POV shot from panzer thru field crossing to Russia; Japanese officers shaking hands with German dignitary, Axis agreement. German submarine sets off. Telegraph workers receiving & sending messages. GOOD. 05:10:09 View from Submarine viewfinder; wolfpack diagram. Inside submarine operation, torpedo fires. Ship explodes. German navy officer decorated. Going inside submarine, submarine going underwater, crewmember looking thru periscope. Bomb falling from plane, explosions. Pre-WWII Germany; Pre-WW2 Industry; Daily Life; Propaganda; German Homefront; 1930s; 1940s; NOTE: any continuous 10 minutes of film sold at per reel rate.