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S.I. Operations R1 of

Reel Number: 221549-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1940s

Country: Italy

Location:

TC Begins: 17:00:12

TC Ends: 17:20:09

Duration: 00:19:57

S.I. Operations R1 of Int. Soldier to sink w/ tile splash panel on wall & w/ processing pans. Pouring chemical & water into pan puts Nazi identification card in & washes sloshing liquid around dissolving part of ink leaving stamp-like image. 17:01:42 Room w/ table, drawing board & chair, man to table & puts image on board to photograph. Develops negative in pans, washes. 17:03:09 Ext. Man w/ chalkboard lecturing, men & a few woman watching, smiling; pan across. Woman writes on blackboard “I am seventeen years of age”. Others write. Man lecturing, all get up & leave. 17:05:40 Ext. Officer & man sitting at table w/ map. 17:06:04 LS of castle-like stone building w/ much foliage. Road & jeep past; arrives & soldier out, goes inside. Underexposed pan of hillside & valley. 17:07:23 View of shed in meadow. LS of valley w/ farms. Telephoto of village. Pan from valley to lecture & class under trees. MS students. MCU lecturer & tank on blackboard. 17:08:55 Army officers off C-47 (?), into army staff car & drive off. Officers walking past. 17:10:05 Pinup picture (not useful until... 17:11:45 Man at table inking Nazi symbol for fake identification papers for B. Wittenburg. Put into envelope. Man into room & puts on Nazi coat, picture taken against white background. CU. Another puts on coat & tie & picture taken. 17:14:32 Paper brought in & two men at table read / look. Look at map. Man in & shakes hands. Look at large map on wall plotting route. 17:16:10 Nazi soldiers walking past followed by US jeep. 17:16:30 Man at desk, looking thru lens at papers. Out of focus map on wall. 17:17:28 Man at desk counting money, looks at paper receipt w/ lens. Mounts it on board. Takes to photo stand to copy. 17:19:10 Man at table w/ board inking / retouching photograph to get Nazi symbol. CU hand inking outline w/ compass. LS working. Office of Strategic Services; OSS; Italy (?); 1940s; WWII; Forging; Forgery; Counterfeit; Copying; Espionage; Spying;

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