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WWII - 1940s, Italy: S.I. Operations R2 of

Reel Number: 221549-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1940s

Country: Italy

Location:

TC Begins: 17:28:59

TC Ends: 17:44:52

Duration: 00:15:53

S.I. Operations R2 of LS Pan over city square, large number of people (poor quality. POWs marched past. Overhead shot of men packed into square behind barbed wire. Men entered into another pen from high angle. 17:30:25 Jeeps & truck w/ soldiers outside large house. POV following truck & trailer in convoy down rural road, passing jeeps etc. Convoy parking. Soldiers past. 17:31:26 Int. (dark). 17:31:46 Men sitting w/ papers at table, talking. Several women. Man at blackboard describing tank drawn. men & women taking notes. CU lecturer. Ext. Group coming out of building. 17:33:29 Men seated, talking & watching men play ping pong. Men playing cards. 17:34:33 Pictures on wall of Hitler & others w/ swastika flags. Man working at desk retouching documents. 17:36:46 Bust of ??, pan to officer. Ext. row of jeeps, Man rolls tire along road past. 17:37:20 Pan along mountain road to farm house, orchard around. Jeep up road & into yard, walks to house & inside. Opens shutters. 17:38:56 Men & women playing volleyball in field beside village. 17:40:03 Int (upside down) 17:42:23 View across rural mountain valley. Orchard w/ trees in bloom. Large stone house. Farm house. Stone house w/ 1562 above doorway carved in stone. 17:43:42 Man w/ jerry-can filling jeep. Car arrives; men out w/ bags & crates & into jeeps. Leaving Office of Strategic Services; OSS; 1940s; Italy (?); WWII; Training; Forging; Forgery; Counterfeit; Copying; Espionage; Spying; WW2; NOTE: Poor focus & quality w/ graininess but usable as spy footage. Also occasional shutter problems.

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