- Title: VM-183
- Summary: EISENHOWER VS ROMMEL: GENERAL EISENHOWER PLANS MASSIVE ASSAULT ATTACK AGAINST GERMANY'S LEGENDARY FIELD MARSHALL ROMMEL DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE GERMAN INTELLIGENCE HAS BROKEN THE VERLAIN CODE ALERTING THE FRENCH UNDERGROUND OF THE INVASION DATE.
- Description:00:59:40 - GERMAN FIELD MARSHALL ROMMEL & OTHERS WALKING ALONG COASTLINE. PANS WATER 01:00:08 - GENERAL EISENHOWER GETTING IN JEEP IN ENGLAND. REVIEWS SOLDIERS 01:00:55 - 1943 ROMMEL SALUTING HITLER IN MEETING. HITLER MAKES HIM GENERAL 01:01:18 - GENERAL IKE AMONG GIS 01:01:37 - IKE STILL MONTAGE 01:01:56 - 1935 IKE IN PHILIPPINES. FLAGS, SOLDIERS MARCHING 01:02:01 - YOUNG MACARTHUR ON TELEPHONE 01:02:04 - IKE IN MEETING WITH MACARTHUR 01:02:11 - ROMMEL STILLS MONTAGE 01:02:22 - ROMMEL AS COL. MEETING WITH HIGH LEVEL GERMAN LEADERS, ELITE GUARD, HITLER 01:02:29 - ROMMEL MARCHING WITH SOLDIERS HITLER 01:02:41 - MAY, 1940 GERMANY INVADES FRANCE.TANKS, WAR 01:03:13 - U.S. ARMY FIELD MANEUVERS TRAINING FOR WAR HITTING TANK FROM PLANE POWDERED BULLETS 01:03:25 - STILLS OF IKE 01:03:35 - IKE AT MAP OF PHILIPPINES STRATEGIC PLANNING. USES STICK TO OUTLINE WAR PLANS 01:04:00 - 1942 ROMMEL IN NORTH AFRICA. "DESERT FOX" PLOTTING WAR STRATEGIES. 01:04:09 - ROMMEL ON FRONT LINES WITH SOLDIERS. LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS CANNONS FIRING RIDING IN JEEP 01:04:28 - IKE & MILITARY LEADERS LOOKING AT MAP PLANS 01:04:36 - DESERT COMBAT SCENES, TANKS BURNING, THICK BLACK SMOKE BILLOWING ACROSS DESERT 01:04:58 - ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF, GENERAL GEORGE MARSHALL. 4-STAR GENERAL IKE 01:05:19 - DECEMBER 7, 1943. FDR IN NORTH AFRICA. IKE SITS IN CAR TALKING TO PRESIDENT. EATING SANDWICHES IKE'S HAT 4 STARS 01:05:45 - NAZI MARCH, BERLIN. SHOW OF PAGEANTRY. ROMMEL TONS OF MEDALS. HITLER REVIEWS MILITARY LEADERS 01:06:10 - HITLER & LEADERS WALK THROUGH SEA OF SUPPORTERS 01:06:14 - FIELD MARSHALL ROMMEL INSPECTS THE FRENCH CHANNEL COAST. "THE ATLANTIC WALL" 01:06:37 - ROMMEL INSPECTING INFANTRY SOLDIERS. 01:06:55 - POV LOOKING AT SEA OF FRENCH COAST 01:06:58 - LONDON, NORFOLK HOUSE. IKE & PLANNING STAFF LOOK AT MAP 01:07:21 - LS, SCHOOL HIDDEN IN WOODS OUTSIDE PARIS 01:07:23 - HEADQUARTERS FOR GERMANY'S WESTERN FRONT. COMMANDERS. NAZIS MEET PLANNING 01:07:41 - ROMMEL POINTS TO SCALE MODEL OF AREA IN FRANCE ALONG ATLANTIC WALL 01:07:50 - GERMANS REBUILDING DEFENSES ON COAST OF NORMANDY. MANY MEN SHOVELING DIRT. POUNDING LONG WOODEN POLES INTO GROUND. SETTING TRAPS ALONG COAST. 01:08:24 - NAZIS EATING HOT PORRIDGE-CEREAL-SOUP 01:08:29 - IKE & COMMANDERS LEAVING MEETING, OUTSIDE 01:08:51 - CHURCHILL & IKE MEETING. 01:09:16 - ROMMEL GIVES MEN PEP TALK READYING THEM FOR BATTLE 01:09:39 - EISENHOWER WITH SOLDIERS DOING SAME 01:10:14 - CU BIG BEN 01:10:17 - BBC HEADQUARTERS. MAN SENDS CODE TO FRENCH UNDERGROUND. CU LIGHTS ON WALL. RADIO TOWERS 01:10:30 - CU MAN'S HANDS ADJUSTING KNOBS ON MACHINE. GERMAN COMMUNICATION HEADQUARTERS. NAZI ON TELEPHONE. MEN DECODING MESSAGES 01:10:55 - IKE CROUCHES OUT OF TENT MEETING, SMOKES CIGARETTE WITH COMRADES. 01:11:28 - JUNE 3, 1944. POV LOOKING UP AT BLIMP DROPPING OFF WEATHER INFORMATION. WIND SOCK 01:11:35 - CU TURNING KNOBS ON WEATHER READING EQUIPMENT. GERMAN WORDS 01:11:38 - MAN AT TELEGRAPH MACHINE. CU READING TICKER TAPE 01:11:41 - MONTAGE GERMAN COMMUNICATION HEADQUARTERS. TYPING. MAPS ON WALL. HEADPHONES. 01:11:52 - ROMMEL'S HEADQUARTERS. SECRET MEETING WITH HITLER 01:12:21 - POV DRIVING DOWN HIGHWAY 01:12:29 - CU DROPS OF RAIN HITTING WATER 01:12:29 - MONTAGE RAIN STORM. IKE WITH MEN IN RAIN 01:13:02 - ENGLISH CHANNEL, GALE WINDS. POV FROM BOAT 01:13:08 - CU WEATHER MAN HOLDING WEATHER MACHINE. WIND MACHINE, SIMPLE SPINNING BALLS 01:13:11 - WEATHER MAN LETS OFF BALLOON FLIES AWAY. WEATHER MONITORING STATION. MONTAGE READING REPORTS CHECKING CONDITIONS. 01:13:29 - SUPREME COMMANDER HEADQUARTERS. IKE & LEADERS MEET ABOUT. WEATHER CONDITIONS 01:14:06 - COMMUNICATIONS HEADQUARTERS BREAKING CODE. DECODED MESSAGE. CU WOMAN TURNING KNOBS, ADJUSTING SOUND HEADPHONES RADIO TOWERS 01:14:21 - SOLDIERS RIPS PAPER, GIVES TO ANOTHER, RUNS TO MOTORCYCLE WITH MESSAGE 01:14:31 - SOLDIER BANGS TIN BELL WARNING SOUND 01:14:33 - SOLDIERS EATING IN MESS HALL, FOOD LEFT UNEATEN IN DISHES 01:14:37 - SIRENS SOUND, MEN GRAB HELMETS, GET IN POSITIONS FOR COMBAT. 01:14:57 - SOLDIER ON COAST LOOKS THROUGH BINOCULARS. ALL QUIET "ATLANTIC WALL". HUGE CANNON HIDDEN. 01:15:11 - NORMANDY, 7TH ARMY TRUCKS ON WOODEN ROAD 01:15:20 - ROMMEL'S SENIOR COMMANDERS PRACTICE WAR GAME. MAP EXERCISE. 01:15:38 - MONTAGE NAZI ARMY RESTING IN FRENCH COUNTRY SIDE 01:15:55 - AMERICAN PARATROOPERS PRACTICING APACHE WAR RITUAL PAINTING WAR PAINT OF FACES. MOHAWK HAIRCUTS. IKE REVIEWS PARATROOPERS. 01:17:01 - MONTAGE PARATROOPERS MOVING TO & TAKING OFF IN PLANES 01:17:44 - JUNE 6, 1944. ROMMEL & FAMILY & FRIENDS PEOPLE GOING DOWN SLIDE. PLAYS WITH DAUGHTERS 01:18:13 - IKE AT ADVANCE HEADQUARTERS. 01:18:36 - NORMANDY COAST, ALL IS QUIET. JUNE 6, LOW TIDE 01:19:04 - MONTAGE COASTAL COMBAT CANNONS SHIPS EXPLOSIONS, NAVAL BOMBARDMENT OF COAST. 01:19:30 - FIRST BOATS OF ASSAULT TROOPS COME ASHORE. 01:19:55 - MONTAGE HIDDEN PERISCOPES, TELESCOPIC LENSES APPEARING, SOLDIERS READYING FOR BATTLE WADING ASHORE. 01:20:14 - COMBAT SEQUENCE MACHINE GUNS, INFANTRY BATTLE MEN COMING ASHORE 01:21:10 - DEAD SOLDIERS FLOATING IN WATER WAR CASUALTIES 01:21:24 - HITLER'S HEADQUARTERS IN MOUNTAINS GERMAN WAR STRATEGY MEETING 01:22:14 - ALLIED INVASION TROOPS AT ATLANTIC WALL 01:22:27 - JUNE 6, ROMMEL'S CAR RACES THROUGH FRENCH COUNTRY SIDE 01:22:40 - ROMMEL LOOKS AT WAR EFFECTS IN HIS ABSENCE. NOT HAPPY 01:22:59 - IKE REGROUPING WITH TROOPS. HAPPY. 01:23:39 - STILL ROMMEL'S FUNERAL 01:23:47 - ROMMEL'S FUNERAL "HEROS FUNERAL" CORTEGE. MOTORCADE PROCESSION. NAZI FLAG DRAPED ON COFFIN 01:24:06 - PAN HUGE MILITARY CEMETERY SIMPLE WHITE CROSSES AMERICAN FLAGS. IKE & OTHERS VISIT DEAD
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1935
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: VM-183