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WWII - Colour, 1945, Netherlands: Liberation Celebrations & Damage; Nazi Prisoners, ca 05May45

Reel Number: 220614-01

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Canada,Germany,Holland,Netherlands

Location: Amsterdam,Holland,rotterdam,The Hague

TC Begins: 14:00:01

TC Ends: 14:18:34

Duration: 00:18:33

WWII - Colour, 1945, Netherlands: Amsterdam Liberation Celebrations & Damage; Nazi Prisoners, ca Slate: Slate: W/O Scheuerman. Z-42, Amsterdam. Ca 05May45. Pan from caricature Hitler hanging from gallows to bombed out houses. 14:00:20 High angle / HA people / crowd in street waving, some w/ flags. Jeeps past & square filled, people wave from balconies. Window w/ Nazi SS sign, pan filled square & city buildings. People seen thru barbed wire & lining street; MS nurses dancing in circle. City Hall (?); people w/ cameras; nurses shaking hands. 14:02:38 Slate: same, Z-43. CU woman wearing tartan beret taking picture. Children waving orange flags outside building w/ Welcome Friends banner & US & British flags. Flower cart, men waving; CU pan flowers at grave marker (?) beside canal. People standing by line of flowers / wreaths w/ ribbons. Smiling man missing front teeth holds up baby. 14:04:37 German prisoners of war / POWs marched thru streets followed by happy locals. CUs kids & others shaking hands w/ soldiers on truck; waving at passing British liberating army. 14:05:37 CU Dutch newspaper re capitulation / surrender. Sign: Underground paper welcomes. War Correspondents to use building. Trucks w/ Canadian troops past; HA crowds around military vehicles. Newspaper re German surrender. Flags hanging from windows of newspaper Het Parool. 14:07:53 - 14:07:58 Black slug. Clock tower & church steeple w/ flags. Collaborators under arrest thru street w/ hands in air. 14:08:59 Nurses push hospital sick on carts into street - soldiers sign autographs. Barbed wire street barrier removed; German troops w/ packs from building & climb into truck. 14:10:38 - 14:10:42 Black slug. (may be beginning of The Hague ftge. Floral wreath at base of monument; flowers laid in courtyard. Church spire; civic building w/ flowers in front. Large church & flag flying from tower of ?. 14:12:29 Standing walls of otherwise completely damaged buildings; flattened lots of rubble. Destroyed church; view out thru Coloured glass in window. 14:13:14 Slate: Scheuerman Z-47 The Hague. Bomb damaged buildings, a few locals on bicycles. 14:15:01 Troops march past, undamaged buildings behind. 3 bombers over low. statue; Soldier w/ film camera talking to another (Canadian ?) in front of windmill. 14:16:01 Slate: Scheuerman Z-48 Rotterdam. Woman by grave; civic buildings flying Orange & Dutch flags. Wreaths on mass grave; LS nearly destroyed church. Building w/ seven tri-Colour flags & towers w/ flags. WW2; End; Celebration; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. GOOD Colour & COVERAGE.

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