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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221694-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1940
Country: Belgium
Location: Ieper aka Ypres,Oostende,Ostend
TC Begins: 22:08:50
TC Ends: 22:19:40
Duration: 00:10:50
Pt. 2 of 2 22:08:50 Men giving out soup from truck to refugees. Soldiers talking to townspeople. 22:09:06 German cavalry riding w/ supplies, troops w/ bicycles. Artillery crossing canal bridge. 22:09:33 Collapsed buildings filling city street. View across canal to two cathedral spires behind destroyed buildings. Sign: Oostende Kaal (?) on railroad station exterior. Destroyed interior w/ burned out cars. 2:09:53 Building w/ sign: London - Oostende. Smoking boat at dock. German soldiers move light artillery on seawall; view of shore emplacement above harbor. German machine guns in foxhole above beach. 22:10:15 Nazi troops w/ horses, cook wagons & troops along road, soldiers on bicycles past on country roads. Soldiers & trucks half-tracks w/ wagons across pontoon bridges on canals. Troops cross river in rubber raft. GOOD 22:11:47 Highway sign: 2K Ieper. (Ypres). Large artillery in field camouflaged, & woods, firing. 22:12:32 Troops walking along road past fields. 22:12:52 Destroyed buildings of town w/ German troops thru, pulling light artillery; set up on road. Building window opened & barrel seen. 22:13:12 German supply wagons thru town past wrecked railroad cars. 22:13:31 Large municipal building w/ many columns, pan around line of small tanks in village square. CU tank w/ Prive - D’Amour painted on turret; another w/ Gisele. Large arched entrance or monument w/ bomb crater alongside. 22:13:55 Large panzer tanks into village. Medium sized thru brush; others across field. 22:14:24 Soldiers move artillery, firing up rural road. Troops at crossroads firing rifles. Captured POWs walking w/ hands up along road at gunpoint, searched. 22:15:01 View along road, destroyed tank & surrendering soldiers. Wounded helped, carried on stretchers. Questioned by Germans. Running along road as Germans watch. Lined up along road, tank w/ German officer passes. 22:16:06 POV past wreckage along roadside. Tanks passing. Overgrown WW1 trench. Germans in brush w/ field telephone. German flag on pole. CU stereotype German Aryan soldiers receiving medals. 22:17:16 Tilt up to tethered German barrage balloon. Large diameter artillery w/ short barrel raised & fired, explosions on distant hill, Barrage balloon w/ observation basket above wooden windmill (Dutch?), balloon & basket lowered. Firing field artillery. Prisoners of War w/ hands raised along country road. 22:18:55 Destroyed large coastal defense, men out; turret raised & swiveled. Steel dome w/ shell holes. 22:19:34 UFA The End. WW2; WWII; Ostend, Belgium; Low Countries; Invasion; May40; 1940; Coastal Defenses; NOTE: Sell any continuous ten minutes of both parts at per reel rate.