WWII - 1939, Germany, Italian Newsreel: Venice; Lion Tamer; Figure Skaters; Military Air Raid Drills; Street Fighting in French Village; German Air Force Air Drills

WWII - 1939, Germany, Italian Newsreel: Venice; Lion Tamer; Figure Skaters; Military Air Raid Drills; Street Fighting in French Village; German Air Force Air Drills Titles. 00:00:15 Venice, Italy crowd crossing bridge; in city, civilians & military walking along plaza, troops w/ bedrolls; feed pigeons; crowd & MCU military generals walking thru. Plaza w/ crowd, people along dock w/ liners & boarding gangway to ship. 3 liners from water w/ tugs alongside at dock. NOTE: Possibly invasion of Albania. 00:01:15 Lion-tamer trainer with two lions in cage; lion combing lion. Lion doing tricks: jumping over trainer, balancing & rolling ball across cage, on ball on pivot & trainer turning & attempting to put head in lion's mouth. CUs of trainer & CUs fo lions. 00:02:15 Male ice skater performing in Vienna, Austria doing spins & twirls for group of women & men seated along rink. Woman performs. 00:03:09 High Angle / HA Group skates for instructor ; women perform balancing in line. 00:03:34 Air raid drill in Germany. Short wave or military radio w/ soldiers listening; warning bell rung & troops get up from long mess hall table, grab helmets & run up ladder to roof to man anti-aircraft gun. 00:03:40 German troops out of railway cars & run to large artillery mounted on railroad nearby. 00:04:12 Pilots & crew run from tents to fighter aircraft parked near trees & airstrip, helped into parachutes & into planes, taxiing & taking off. 00:04:35 Formation overhead; viewing scopes following and anti-aircraft prepared. 00:05:38 Street fighting by infantry in German border town w/ French offensive. Explosions & damaged buildings & houses. Explosives attached to wagon wheel & blown up. 00:06:59 Hanger doors opened & large German flying boat w/ single motor above wing pulled out by tractors. CU Machine gun ammunition loaded by machine; gun mounted & bomb carts brought to aircraft & loaded. Pilots briefed pointing to northern Scotland on map & pilots to & board twin engine Heinkel twin-engine aircraft on grassy airstrip. Engines start & dissolve to amphibious plane lifted from wheeled carrier water by overhead into water & taking off; planes take off from and & over English Channel. Aerials. CU cockpit shots & circling over freighter, other ship and firing at shore (brief). End. WW2 German Preparations; Human Interest Stories; Invasion Army; NOTE: In our experience German Nazi era material is considered in the public domain throughout the world. If users feel any further clearances are necessary they are to be their own responsibility.