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1940s - Unid. Nazi Newsreel: Swimming; Calisthenic Show; Nazi Åir Force & Officers; Fighting

Reel Number: H1683-19

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1940s

Country: Germany,Italy

Location:

TC Begins: 11:39:26

TC Ends: 11:49:38

Duration: 00:10:12

1940s - Unid. Nazi Newsreel: Swimming; Calisthenic Show; Nazi Åir Force & Officers; Fighting Man poses above swimming pool, crowd around it. Swimmers dive into pool lanes & do breast stroke, cheering crowds. Women competitors doing backstroke. Brief MCU of woman winner). Others swimming & cheered. 11:40:06 Men posing, receiving awards. 11:40:12 Athletes carrying large vertical poles marching on stadium field, grandstand w/ Nazi eagle on viewing stand. Spectators. Men doing calisthenics lifting poles over head in unison. 11:40:33 Young German soldiers / airmen watching. LS & MCU athletes w/ poles over shoulders touching each end to ground. MCU Nazi officers in stand watching. Spectators applauding, men twirling poles. 11:40:53 Men crouch & start relay race over obstacles. 11:41:14 Mass of athletes on field racing, performing in unison. Applause. 11:41:43 Nazi officers & Japanese officer & others greeting & shaking hands. Shaking hands alongside train. 11:42:03 Officers meeting, log building in background. MCU Officer w/ iron cross & another talking; inspect machinery. Railroad car along tracks, POV inside. 11:42:30 Officers along dock & boarding small boat, w/ Polish officers ; series of boats running up river in column; destroyed warehouse buildings, wrecked bridge or ?? 11:42:54 Airmen under camouflage on field telephone; men uncovering camouflaged artillery & firing. Firing large clusters of rockets. Tanks across fields. Night firing of artillery. Daytime & burning equipment. 11:44:07 Pan of field w/ many tanks parked. 11:44:20 Map centered on Italy, covering from Marseilles to Greece. Motorcycles rolling onto landing craft, trucks backed on & door w/ camouflaged paint closed. Planes overhead, ack-ack fire & artillery firing. Bombs around barges in bay. Firing into harbor, boats crossing. German soldiers on shipboard; guns firing; plane plunging into ground. More explosions in harbor, planes falling in smoke, CU of artillery firing. 11:46:35 Landing craft onto beach, unloading motorcycle, truck, men carry large crates. CU Soldier w/ ammunition around neck smoking cigarette. 11:47:07 Germans inspect crashed American bomber w/ airmen looking out of window, J 23305 E on tail (had been flying out of North Africa, probably shot down over Italy between 12May & 22Jun43). 11:47:15 German air force officers shaking hands under olive trees. 11:47:29 Unid. officer reading from paper to group of assembled troops in U formation. Airmen put on life jackets & into belly of plane w/ boxer & German Shepherd, plane taking off & POV from plane low over water, spot convoy. Aerial shots of attack on ships & dropping torpedoes . Ack-ack & many explosions, burning ships. WW2; Oddities; Exercise; Fighting; 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. NOTE: sound track no good due to heavy buzz throughout; entire film very contrasty & grainy.

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