Post-WWII - 1947, Poland: Warsaw Sculptor; Monuments; Memorial & Daily Life.

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Post-WWII - 1947, Poland: Warsaw Sculptor; Monuments; Memorial & Daily Life. LS, MS Polish sculptor Xawery Dunikowski carving clay for a monument to the Silesian insurgents. CU, the number 744 tattooed on his left arm (from Auschwitz concentration camp). Dunikowski, smoking cigarette, chiseling marble. 19:18:03 LS, MS Monument to the Unknown Warrior w/ guard parading, some ruins in BG. MS, grave covered w/ flowers; marble slab on a pillar w/ names of the great battles in which Polish soldiers took part in the West, tilt down. MS, another slab w/ names of German-Russian campaign. 19:19:12 MS, soldier parading. 19:19:28 LS Warsaw w/ Russian Orthodox Cathedral & people, trams & Russo-Polish monument; flowers at the base. 19:20:01 CU, statue of group of Russian soldiers on top of monument. MSs, Polish inscription (translation): "To the brothers of the Red Army - To the brothers in arms who gave their life for the liberation & the independency of the Polish people, erected by the inhabitants of Warsaw." People look at flowers at the foot of the monument. 19:20:44 LS, helmet on rough cross at a cellar entrance. Two Polish officers & a civilian pay homage. 19:21:00 CU inscription on cross (translation): "Here in that cellar lay the ashes of several hundreds of wounded & sick soldiers & civilian insurgents burnt by Germans as reprisals on 02Sep44." 19:21:13 LS, statue of Siren, the coat of arms of Warsaw, standing up on her tail, erected on the bank of the Vistula River. CU Siren on a skyline with her shield & sword. 19:21:40 LS, CUs in front of a ruined church, the statue of Kilinski, first Polish insurgent, brandishing his sword. 19:22:19 CU Tumulus made of wrecked bricks w/ a cross on top. Headstones honoring Polish dead. 19:23:01 MS woman teacher w/ children at twilight, talking about the famous market place of Warsaw in ruins. Walk on past ruins LS, MS ruins of the city hall of Warsaw. 19:24:20 MS, CU girls drawing at the foot of the wrecked city hall. 19:24:52 LS CUs, of façade of wrecked Opera House, cart passes in FG. MS, memorial erected at the main entrance of the Opera House, for musicians slain by Germans. Three children stop & stand bareheaded in front of the memorial. CUs. Post-WW2 Religion; Destroyed Christian Churches; 1940s; Aftermath; Patriotism; Patriotic; Remembrances; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk