Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: VM-2051

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00:01:52 0.2	RETURN TO DUNKIRK ALLIED ADVANCE CONTINUES AS GERMAN ARMY BEGINS TO COLLAPSE. BRITISH EVEN SCORE AND RETURN TO DUNKIRK. MONTAGE BRITISH FIRE HUGE NEW CANNON INTO DUNKIRK. CU HANDS OF BRITISH ARTILLERY MEN SCREW ON FUSE TO SHELL OF BIG GUN. 4 MEN CARRY 200 POUND SHELL AND PLACE IT INTO BREECH OF CANNON
00:02:32 40.2	3 BRITISH TOMMIES HAVE TO DRIVE HOME CHARGE INTO THE BARREL BEFORE FIRING.
00:02:54 62.2	TALL CANADIAN MAJOR SPEAKS TO SHORT GERMAN COMMANDER, SPORTING HITLER MUSTACHE, AFTER TRUCE WHICH BOTH AGREE WILL ALLOW EVACUATION OF DUNKIRK'S CIVILIAN POPULATION BEFORE ONSLAUGHT
00:03:00 68.2	MONTAGE PEOPLE LEAVE ON HORSE AND CART, BICYCLE AND ON FOOT. CREDENTIALS ARE EXAMINED. BRITISH SOLDIERS HELP THE ELDERLY.
00:04:15 143.2	OLD FILM SHOWS ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS LINING DUNKIRK BEACH, ABANDONED VEHICLES, RUBBER BOATS & BRITISH SOLDIERS HELMET HALF BURIED IN SAND, ALL REMAINS OF BRITISH DEFEAT AND EVACUATION
00:04:29 157.2	ADVANCE IN LOW COUNTRIES PAN OF CONCENTRATION CAMP IN TOWN OF BELSDORF, BELGIUM, WHERE NAZIS KEPT BELGIAN PRISONERS.
00:04:45 173.2	PEOPLE MARCH IN PROCESSION AS THEY PAY TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO WERE TORTURED TO DEATH IN CAMP. BELGIAN FLAG IS RAISED OVER CAMP. TOWNSPEOPLE LAY WREATHS AT GRAVE MARKERS.
00:05:11 199.2	TOWNSPEOPLE SOLEMNLY PASS BY MARKERS, SOME WEEP.
00:05:37 225.2	MONTAGE FLOOD OF REFUGEES CLOG ROADS AS GERMANS USE THIS TACTIC TO HOLD UP ADVANCING BRITISH.
00:05:56 244.2	MONTAGE BRITISH BOMBARD GERMANS WITH HEAVY AND LIGHT ARTILLERY. WHITE FLAG HANGS FROM BUILDING. TANKS LADEN WITH BRITISH TROOPS ROLL INTO TOWN.
00:06:31 279.2	BRITISH TROOPS THAT BRAVELY FOUGHT TO CONTAIN GERMANS IN ARNHEM POSE FOR GROUP PHOTO. CU FACES OF SOME OF THE MEN.
00:06:58 306.2	GENERAL ERFHART, WHO COMMANDED THE MEN AT ARNHEM, EXITS PLANE.
00:07:13 321.2	ALLIES CLEAR FRENCH PORTS LOW FLYING BRITISH FIGHTER-BOMBERS FLY OVER ENGLISH CHANNEL AND ATTACK GERMAN SHIPPING. AERIAL INTENSE STRAFING AS SEEN FROM PLANES CAMERAS.
00:08:56 424.2	AERIAL STRAFING OF GROUND TARGETS IN BELGIUM, AS SEEN FROM FIGHTER PLANES.
00:09:33 461.2	MONTAGE FIREMEN FIGHT SMOKING RUINS IN CALAIS.
00:10:00 488.2	AERIAL RUINS OF BREST WHERE NAZI SUBMARINE BASES ONCE STOOD. MONTAGE COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS IN BREST INCLUDE THE "IMPREGNABLE" SUBMARINE PENS. PAN
00:10:38 526.2	MONTAGE GERMAN PRISONERS, 35,000 STRONG, MARCH TO REAR IN ENDLESS COLUMNS.
00:11:01 549.2	CU MUSTACHED FACE OF GERMAN PRISONER. CU SMILING PRISONER.
00:11:26 574.2	DAMAGED SUBMARINE BERTHS ARE SHOWN INSIDE & OUT. AERIAL BOMBS FALLING ON THE SUB BASES AT AN EARLIER TIME.
00:12:34 642.2	ROLL# 1022
00:13:13 681.2	MEDALS FOR HEROES AERIAL PAN OF 2600 U.S. AIRMEN LINE UP AT AIRFIELD TO RECEIVE MEDALS FOR NORMANDY LANDINGS. OFFICERS AND MEN STAND AT ATTENTION. PAN
00:13:29 697.2	CU PAN BOXES FULL OF MEDALS ARE STACKED AT SITE. MEN WALK SINGLE FILE AND PICK UP THEIR MEDALS FROM MAJOR GENERAL PAUL WILLIAMS.
00:13:50 718.2	GENERAL BRERINGTON, COMMANDER OF 1ST ALLIED ARMY PASSES OUT MEDALS TO THE OFFICERS.
00:14:33 761.2	ANTWERP FALLS UNDERGROUND FILM SEES GERMAN MECHANIZED VEHICLES RUSHING OUT OF ANTWERP. ANTWERP IS TAKEN
00:14:55 783.2	GERMAN SOLDIERS CHECK ENGINE ON THEIR STALLED CAR. GERMAN SOLDIERS PUSH THEIR VEHICLE THROUGH STREET.
00:15:10 798.2	BRITISH AND CANADIAN TANKS ENTER CITY. CHEERING PEOPLE FILL THE STREETS. SOME OF THEM TAKE RIDE ON TANKS.
00:16:15 863.2	MARSHALL MEETS EISENHOWER GENERAL GEORGE MARSHALL ARRIVES IN PARIS BY PLANE, IS GREETED BY GENERAL IKE AND ASSOCIATE JUSTICE JAMES BYRNE.
00:16:58 906.2	AACHEN CORRIDOR CLOSED FIRST GERMAN TOWN OF AACHEN IS TAKEN BY AMERICAN FORCES BOMBS EXPLODE IN 1ST GERMAN TOWN TO BE COMPLETELY CUT OFF FROM THE GERMAN ARMY.
00:17:39 947.2	GI USES AN AXE TO CUT DOWN TREE IN FOREST TO MAKE WAY FOR TANKS. GI FIRES HIS RIFLE INTO FOREST OF TREES. SOME OF 9000 GERMANS WHO SURRENDERED WALK THROUGH FOREST WITH HANDS UP
00:17:56 964.2	MONTAGE HUNDREDS OF GERMAN CIVILIAN REFUGEES LEARN HOW IT FEELS TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES. THEY ARE LOADED ON TRUCKS AND EVACUATED FROM AREA.
00:18:30 998.2	BRITISH LAND IN GREECE CU WAKE OF BRITISH WARSHIP ON WAY TO ATHENS.
00:19:36 1064.2	GROUP OF GREEK PARTISANS MARCH IN TOWN IN GREECE. TOWNS PEOPLE AND GREEK ORTHODOX PRIEST APPLAUD. FACES OF PARTISANS INCLUDE YOUNG BOY.
00:20:09 1097.2	BRITISH FLAG IS DRAPED ON ROOFTOP AS BRITISH SOLDIERS MARCH INTO TOWN TO CHEER OF THOUSANDS. EXCITED VOICES OF CROWD ARE HEARD.
00:20:40 1128.2	MONTAGE LEADERS OF RESISTANCE MOVEMENT RIDE IN MOTORCADE. CRUNCHING CROWD CHEER FEVERISHLY. MAN USES OLD HORN FROM VINTAGE RECORD PLAYER AS A MEGAPHONE TO SCREAM THROUGH.
00:21:18 1166.2	GREEK MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN HELP BRITISH SOLDIERS BUILD LANDING STRIP FOR BRITISH PLANES. WITHIN FEW HOURS PLANES LAND WITH SUPPLIES.
00:21:54 1202.2	GREEK CROWD ALONG THE MOUNTAINOUS SHORE CHEER BRITISH TROOPS AS THEY LAND ON SHORE.
00:22:15 1223.2	GREEK GIRL PLACES FLORAL WREATH AROUND SOLDIER'S NECK.
00:22:59 1267.2	REEL# 1023
00:23:29 1297.2	ALLIES SET FOR OFFENSIVE BRITISH LANCASTER BOMBERS DROP BOMBS AND INCENDIARIES ON GERMAN CITY. AERIAL MONTAGE GROUND IS LIT UP BY EXPLOSIONS AND FLAMES. PAN
00:25:00 1388.2	MONTAGE BRITISH TANKS AND TROOPS ADVANCE ACROSS FIELD IN HOLLAND. TROOPS FIRING MORTARS AND MACHINE GUNS. SURRENDERING GERMANS WALK OUT OF RUBBLE WITH HANDS ON THEIR HEADS.
00:25:47 1435.2	INVASION HARBORS REMARKABLE MAN-MADE HARBOR IS SHIPPED ACROSS ENGLISH CHANNEL & ASSEMBLED AT FRENCH COASTAL AREA. AERIAL MAN-MADE PORTABLE HARBOR OFF NORMANDY STRETCHES 2 MILES IN WIDTH AND A FULL MILE OUT TO SEA.
00:26:35 1483.2	MONTAGE HUNDREDS OF HUGE CONCRETE CAISSONS ARE TOWED ON BARGES ACROSS ENGLISH CHANNEL WHICH ARE SUNK AT BEACH, TO FORM 3 MILE BREAK-WATER.
00:27:19 1527.2	WORST GALE IN 40 YEARS SMASHES AT MAN-MADE HARBOR WITH NO AFFECT. SECOND HARBOR, BUILT AT CHERBOURG IN MORE EXPOSED AREA, CRUMPLES UP.
00:28:58 1626.2	TANKS, JEEPS AND TRUCKS PASS THROUGH MAN-MADE HARBOR.
00:29:50 1678.2	AMERICANS TAKE AACHEN AERIAL FRONTIER TOWN OF ACHEN. 1ST GERMAN TOWN TAKEN BY ALLIES.
00:30:12 1700.2	MONTAGE WITH GERMANS REFUSING TO SURRENDER, AACHEN IS BOMBED AND SHELLED FOR 12 DAYS BEFORE AMERICAN 1ST ARMY TOOK IT. LONG COLUMN OF GERMAN REFUGEES LEAVE TOWN.
00:30:36 1724.2	MONTAGE AMERICAN ARTILLERY BOMBARD AACHEN WITH LONG-RANGE GUNS. GIS MOVE IN AND FIGHT HOUSE TO HOUSE BATTLE. WHITE FLAG HANGS ON WINDOW OF BUILDING CONTAINING MANY BULLET AND SHELL HOLES.
00:31:52 1800.2	MONTAGE TANKS FIRE INTO BUILDINGS AT POINT-BLANK RANGE. STREET TO STREET FIGHTING AS CIVILIANS CARRY THEIR BELONGINGS THROUGH RUBBLE
00:33:28 1896.2	ROLL# 1024
00:33:58 1926.2	ALLIES BREAK NAZI GRIP ON HOLLAND MONTAGE BRITISH ARTILLERY FIRES AT RETREATING NAZIS.
00:34:30 1958.2	BRITISH TOMMIES DIG OUT CIVILIANS TRAPPED IN COLLAPSED SHELTER. YOUNG GIRL RUNS OUT OF RUBBLE. WOMAN CLINGS TO SOLDIER AS HE WALKS HER AWAY FROM RUBBLE.
00:34:52 1980.2	TANK FLAME THROWER POURS FLAMES INTO FOREST. AS ALLIED TANKS AND TRUCKS SPEED THROUGH BOMBED-OUT TOWN, PEOPLE STREAM INTO THE STREETS FROM THEIR SHELTERS.
00:35:13 2001.2	AIR COMMUNIQUE HUGE BRITISH FLYING BOAT FLIES OVER JUNGLES OF BURMA. COMES IN FOR LANDING ON RIVER BEHIND JAPANESE LINES.
00:35:39 2027.2	LONG ENGINE POWERED RAFT MEETS FLYING BOAT IN MID-RIVER, UNLOADS SUPPLIES AND LOADS ON WOUNDED SOLDIERS.
00:36:29 2077.2	MONTAGE SHIRTLESS CREWS ON BRITISH CARRIER PUSH PLANES INTO POSITION FOR TAKE OFF. CREWS LOAD 500 POUND BOMBS UNDER THE WINGS. PLANES TAKE OFF TO ATTACK JAPANESE SHIPS.
00:37:24 2132.2	RETURNING "CORSAIR" FIGHTER LANDS ON CARRIER. AERIAL STRAFING OF GROUND TARGETS AND HUGE SECONDARY EXPLOSIONS. HUGE CLOUDS OF BLACK SMOKE CAUSED BY ATTACK. AS SEEN FROM FIGHTER PLANE.
00:38:07 2175.2	MONTAGE NAZI FIGHTERS BEING SHOT DOWN, AS SEEN FROM ATTACKING PLANES' CAMERAS.
00:38:25 2193.2	ATHENS LIBERATED ATHENS FALLS, PEOPLE CELEBRATE IN STREETS. MONTAGE BRITISH TROOPS SEE THE GREEK COAST FROM THEIR LANDING SHIPS. GREEK PEOPLE APPLAUD AS THE "TOMMIES" LAND AT PIER AND MARCH INLAND.
00:39:47 2275.2	MONTAGE BRITISH AND POLISH TROOPS MARCH INTO ATHENS, ARE MET BY JOYOUS CROWDS. SMILING MAN HOLDS UP DRAWING OF CHURCHILL PUFFING ON CIGAR. AERIAL CONFETTI FALLS ON HUGE CROWD
00:40:42 2330.2	BRITISH AND POLISH SOLDIERS VISIT THE ANCIENT ACROPOLIS. THEY VIEW THE PARTHENON WITH ITS ANCIENT STATUES, BUILT IN 447 B. C.
00:41:14 2362.2	COLORFULLY DRESSED GREEK PARTISANS ARE PART OF GUARD-OF-HONOR MEETING GREEK PRIME MINISTER POPANDREO AND BRITISH GENERAL SCOURBY
00:41:52 2400.2	MONTAGE HUGE CROWDS IN STREET AND FROM BALCONIES GREET GREEK PRIME MINISTER'S MOTORCADE. LONG LINE OF WOMEN WAVE FLORAL LEAVES.
00:42:38 2446.2	FOUR GIRLS IN NATIVE COSTUME CARRY HUGE NATIONAL FLAG TO THE PARTHEON FOLLOWED BY THE PRIME MINISTER AND OTHER OFFICIALS. FLAG IS RAISED OVER THE RUINS