1944 (?) - French Newsreel, #23 - Vichy, France

1944 (?) - French Newsreel, #23 - Vichy, France Flash frame title: France Actualities No. 23. (?) Contrails overhead; bombs dropping. 03:07:06 destroyed village buildings, church spires beyond; men w/ horse drawn wagons & loading rubble. Various shots of smoking ruins & large buildings w/ walls still standing. Men shoveling rubble into truck. CU doll w/ missing head. 03:07:40 Large Cathedral & refugees towards on street; refugees in various streets. CU damaged buildings, bicyclists & others along narrow streets. 03:08:26 People getting water from pool in small park. Village & towns w/ heavy bomb destruction. 03:08:52 Pan along railroad platform w/ burned out train cars. Smoking ruins w/ large destroyed buildings 03:09:21 - 06:09:30 Nitrate or other damage to image & track. 03:09:29 Chalked messages on walls from survivors. Cleaning rubble, refugees, extreme damage. 03:10:02 LS of heavy smoke from behind city buildings; CUs burning buildings; LS down street w/ people looking at firemen fighting fires, people carry furnishings salvaged. Traffic thru deep water from firefighting. 03:10:46 Boys in uniform carry stretchers & bodies. Trolley barn w/ burned cars; piles of goods on street and roads next to traffic sign, town in background. 03:11:11 Motorcade w/ Marshal Petain, cheering crowds. Petain walks thru crowd, gets bouquets; city square filled singing anthem. Petain in CU on balcony, speaks SOF: ?? 03:12:20 Police hold back crowd as La Marseillaise anthem is played & sung. CUs. 03:12:46 Motorcade thru ruins, brief POV, people wave; Petain out of car & walks past crowd to base of WWI monument 03:13:37 Motorcade past other crowds w/ kids waving small flags. MCU cheering. Flag flying. Petain into large car & leaving saluting soldiers. 1944 ca; WW2 Vichy France; Bombing Damage; WWII Nazi Fascist Propaganda; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate.