- Title: VM-300
- Summary: FAREWELL TO YESTERDAY (PT.1): EVENTS LEADING UP TO WWII & BEGINNING OF WAR
- Description:00:02:00 - CU BIBLICAL SAYING: "WIDE IS THE GATE AND BROAD IS THE WAY TO DESTRUCTION" MATTHEW VII 13 00:02:05 - AERIAL PAN MILES OF BOMBED OUT CITY BUILDINGS (BERLIN?) 00:02:30 - PAN BLOCK AFTER BLOCK OF RUBBLE OF CITY BUILDINGS 00:02:46 - TROLLEY ROLLS BY RUBBLE 00:02:50 - MONTAGE FIRE RAGES IN BUILDINGS AT NIGHT 00:03:04 - MONTAGE SIDES OF BUILDINGS COLLAPSE 00:03:09 - SMOKE RISES FROM CITY 00:03:16 - MONTAGE SMOLDERING RUINS OF BUILDINGS 00:03:33 - VERSAILLES, 1919: CARAVAN OF LIMOS ROLL DOWN AVENUE 00:03:35 - PALACE OF VERSAILLES 00:03:44 - MONTAGE DELEGATES CROWD HALLS OF PALACE 00:03:51 - CU WILSON SIGNS WORTHLESS TREATY OF VERSAILLES 00:04:01 - CU WOODROW WILSON SEATED IN OFFICE 00:04:10 - MONTAGE HELMETED GERMAN SOLDIERS BEHIND BARBED WIRE BARRICADES IN CITY 00:04:25 - MONTAGE UNRULY MOBS IN EUROPEAN CITIES 00:04:35 - MONTAGE BLACK SHIRTED FACIST TROOPS MARCH ON ROME CARRYING FLAGS 00:04:47 - MUSSOLINI IN TUXEDO & TOP HAT WATCHES PARADE 00:04:55 - MONTAGE BUSY NYC STREETS WITH PEOPLE & TRAFFIC, 1920s 00:05:07 - CU WOMAN GETTING FACIAL TREATMENT IN SALON 00:05:14 - MAN LIGHTS UP CIGARETTE FOR WOMAN SMOKER, "THE NEW LOOK" OF ROARING 20s 00:05:19 - CU WOMAN SHOWS OFF LEGS IN SILK STOCKING 00:05:24 - WOMEN SHOWS OFF BODIES IN BATHING SUITS FOR BEAUTY CONTEST 00:05:33 - AERIAL STEEPLEJACK CLIMBS GIRDER HIGH ABOVE CITY. DAREDEVIL 00:05:40 - STEEL WORKER DRIVES RIVET INTO GIRDER 00:05:43 - MONTAGE TALL BUILDINGS, POV LOOKING UP 00:05:52 - IL DUCE MUSSOLINI HOLDS UP SWORD 00:06:00 - MONTAGE MUSSOLINI GIVES DRAMATIC ANIMATED SPEECHES 00:06:07 - CU MUSSOLINI IN BATHING TRUNKS AND BALD HEAD SPEAKS 00:06:24 - GAS-MASKED BLACK SHIRTS DRILL IN FIELD 00:06:29 - CU MUSSOLINI IN HELMET GIVES STIFF ARM FACIST SALUTE 00:06:35 - U.S. POLITICIANS WITH HAMMERS SMASH LIQUOR BOTTLES DURING PROHIBITION 00:06:38 - CU AXES SMASH 5-GALLON JUGS OF LIQUOR 00:06:42 - CU WOODEN BARRELS ARE EMPTIED INTO STREETS 00:06:50 - CU SHOT-OUT REAR WINDOW OF CAR EXAMINED BY POLICE 00:06:53 - MEN WITH HANDS UP ARE LED TO PADDY WAGON BY ARMED POLICE. GANGSTERS 00:07:04 - MONTAGE DANCING COUPLES DO CHARLESTON ON STAGE IN CONTEST 00:07:22 - CU BARTENDER MIXES DRINK IN SHAKER 00:07:23 - SCANTILY-CLAD DANCERS DANCE ON NIGHTCLUB FLOOR 00:07:37 - MONTAGE DANCING COUPLES DO FOX TROT IN NIGHTCLUB 00:07:48 - CU STREET SIGN: "WALL ST. & BROADWAY" 00:07:57 - CU PAN COLUMNS AT STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING 00:08:05 - AERIAL ACTIVITY ON STOCK EXCHANGE FLOOR 00:08:09 - MONTAGE BUSY TRANSACTIONS AT STOCK EXCHANGE 00:08:21 - MONTAGE LONG LINE OF UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE LOOKING FOR JOBS DURING GREAT DEPRESSION AFTER STOCK MARKET CRASH 00:08:29 - MAN SELLS APPLES AT CORNER 00:08:43 - LONG LINE OF UNEMPLOYED MARCH IN FRONT OF CAPITOL BUILDING 00:08:48 - AERIAL HORSE-MOUNTED POLICE AMID RIOTING PEOPLE IN NYC 00:09:02 - MONTAGE PEOPLE IN GERMANY RIOT IN STREETS 00:09:06 - CU HITLER'S "MEIN KAMPF" BOOK 00:09:09 - MONTAGE HITLER REVIEWS BROWN SHIRT PARADE 00:09:26 - MONTAGE HITLER AMID HUGE ARMY OF FOLLOWERS AT RALLY 00:09:46 - HITLER SPEAKS WITH HESS IN BACKGROUND 00:10:11 - MONTAGE HITLER STANDS IN OPEN CAR AS IT ROLLS BY CHEERING CROWDS 00:10:17 - HITLER WALKS DOWN AISLE IN HUGE ARENA FILLED WITH WORSHIPPERS 00:10:50 - MONTAGE CU HITLER MAKING NUMEROUS SPEECHES IN GERMAN 00:11:13 - HITLER GIVES STIFF ARM FACIST SALUTE AS CROWD SINGS PATRIOTIC SONG 00:11:19 - AERIAL HUGE CROWD AT RALLY 00:11:29 - MONTAGE NAZI BROWN SHIRTS ON OPEN TRUCKS ROLL THROUGH STREETS SHOUTING SLOGANS 00:11:33 - MONTAGE SIGNS PAINTED ON STORE WINDOWS & WALLS: "ACHTUNG JUDEN" AND JEWISH STAR WITH "JUDE" 00:11:48 - PAN NAZI ON TRUCKS & PEOPLE IN STREETS CHANT SLOGANS 00:11:53 - MONTAGE NAZIS BURN BOOKS IN HUGE BONFIRE 00:12:07 - COUPLES FILE THROUGH SALUTING CROWD IN MASS MARRIAGE CEREMONY 00:12:11 - ARMY OF TROOPS MARCH CARRYING SHOVELS 00:12:19 - MONTAGE SPARKS FLY IN STEEL MILL 00:12:23 - WORKERS FLINCH AS PRESS SLAMS DOWN ON HOT STEEL 00:12:27 - MONTAGE BULLETS, CANNON, TANKS, PLANES ROLL OFF ASSEMBLY LINES 00:12:39 - MONTAGE HITLER REVIEWS GOOSESTEPPING TROOPS, TANKS & PLANES 00:12:57 - CU HITLER WITH SILLY GRIN ON FACE 00:13:17 - CU MUSSOLINI'S IMAGE TRANSPOSED OVER MARCHING TROOPS 00:13:24 - NATIVE POUND DRUM NEXT ETHIOPIAN FLAG 00:13:27 - MONTAGE ETHIOPIAN TROOPS CLAD IN WHITE SHEETS MARCH THROUGH STREET 00:13:37 - CU HALIE SELASSIE, KING OF ETHIOPIA, REVIEWS NATIVE TROOPS 00:13:43 - MONTAGE RIFLE-WAVING NATIVES DANCE IN STREETS 00:13:51 - AERIAL ITALIAN BOMBS DROP ON ETHIOPIAN LANDSCAPE 00:13:56 - NATIVES SHOT AT BOMBING PLANES WITH RIFLES 00:14:01 - NATIVES WATCH HELPLESSLY AS HUTS BURN 00:14:12 - HAILE SELASSIE IN BLACK CAPE ADDRESSES LEAGUE OF NATIONS IN VAIN 00:14:45 - SELASSIE LEAVES PODIUM AMIDST APPLAUSE 00:15:01 - MONTAGE GERMAN TROOPS MARCH INTO RHINELAND 00:15:12 - COLUMN OF HORSEBACKED GERMAN TROOPS CROSS BRIDGE INTO AUSTRIA 00:15:19 - MONTAGE GERMAN TROOPS MARCH INTO AUSTRIA 00:15:29 - MUSSOLINI & HITLER REVIEW ITALIAN TROOPS 00:15:42 - HITLER & MUSSOLINI CAN'T DECIDE WHO SHOULD ENTER CAR FIRST 00:16:01 - BRITAIN'S PRIME MINISTER CHAMBERLAIN VISITS HITLER AT BERCHTESGADEN, BAVARIA 00:16:20 - MONTAGE HITLER, MUSSOLINI & CHAMBERLAIN SIGN PACT 00:16:34 - MONTAGE HITLER & MUSSOLINI WITH GENERALS INCLUDE GORING 00:16:46 - CHAMBERLAIN ARRIVES IN ENGLAND BY PLANE 00:16:49 - CU CHAMBERLAIN WAVES PACT. DOCUMENT PROMISES PEACE IN OUR TIME 00:17:00 - MONTAGE GERMAN TROOPS CROSS CZECHOSLOVAKIA AS PEOPLE SALUTE & CRY 00:17:29 - ROOSEVELT SPEAKS TO CONGRESS, WARNS OF FRAGILE PEACE 00:18:04 - RUSSIA'S MOLOTOV EXITS LIMO IN GERMANY ON VISITS TO HITLER 00:18:12 - MOLOTOV MEETS VON RIBBENTROP TO SIGN NAZI-COMMUNIST PACT WHICH WAS SEEN AS BETRAYAL BY FREE WORLD 00:18:24 - HEADLINE: "DANZIG OR WAR" WARNS HITLER 00:18:26 - NEW YORK POST HEADLINE: "HITLER DEMANDS RULE OF POLAND - REJECTS CHAMBERLAIN'S WARNING" 00:18:32 - NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINE: GERMAN ARMY ATTACKS POLAND 00:18:34 - HUGE BOMB EXPLOSION 00:18:37 - MONTAGE GERMAN BOMBERS TAKE TO SKY & DROP BOMBS ON POLAND 00:18:50 - GERMAN TANKS ROLL INTO POLAND 00:18:59 - CU BOMBS EXIT BOMB-BAY DOORS 00:19:07 - BOMBS EXPLODE ON GROUND 00:19:09 - MONTAGE ARTILLERY FIRES AT TARGETS 00:19:22 - CU CHAMBERLAIN DEJECTEDLY SITS AT DESK 00:19:24 - CU CHURCHILL, WIFE & KING GEORGE ENTER BUILDING 00:19:36 - CHAMBERLAIN & WIFE ENTER LIMO 00:19:41 - MONTAGE CHILDREN PREPARE TO BOARD TRAINS AT STATION WITH BELONGINGS. LEAVING CITY FOR COUNTRYSIDE 00:19:46 - MONTAGE CHILDREN ARE KISSED BY PARENTS BEFORE BOARDING TRAIN TO COUNTRYSIDE 00:20:05 - MONTAGE CRYING PARENTS WAVE FAREWELL TO CHILDREN AS TRAIN LEAVES 00:20:13 - MONTAGE GERMAN & RUSSIAN SOLDIERS MEET, TALK ON POLISH BATTLEFIELD 00:20:59 - CU BARBED WIRE IN SNOW AROUND FRENCH MAGINOT LINE 00:21:07 - FRENCH SOLDIER TESTS FOOD FROM COOKING VATS IN MAGINOT LINE UNDERGROUND 00:21:12 - CU FRENCH SOLDIERS EAT MEAL UNDERGROUND 00:21:18 - FRENCH PATROL WITH DOG PATROL ALONG SNOW BANK HILL 00:21:24 - FRENCH SOLDIER CRAWLS IN SNOW AMID BARBED WIRE BARRICADES 00:21:40 - CU FRENCH SOLDIER WAITS FOR GERMAN ATTACK ALONG MAGINOT LINE AS CALENDAR MONTHS PEEL OFF TO MAY 10, 1940 00:21:44 - MONTAGE ARTILLERY FLASHES LIGHT UP NIGHT 00:21:58 - MONTAGE GERMAN BOMBERS DROP BOMBS 00:21:59 - MONTAGE CITY BUILDINGS BLOW UP, FIRES RAGE & BUILDINGS COLLAPSE 00:22:18 - DAZED FRENCHMAN WITH BERET & CANE WALKS AMID RUBBLE 00:22:22 - AERIAL PARATROOPS DROP FROM PLANES 00:22:27 - PARATROOPERS POUR OUT OF GERMAN PLANES SEEN FROM PLANE'S POV 00:22:36 - PARATROOPERS DROP ON CITY 00:22:41 - MONTAGE PARATROOPERS ON GROUND RUN TO PICK UP EQUIPMENT ALSO DROPPED 00:23:00 - GERMAN ARTILLERY SHOOTS POINT BLANK INTO BUILDING 00:23:12 - MONTAGE BRITISH TROOPS PASS FLEEING REFUGEES 00:23:21 - MONTAGE REFUGEE FAMILIES WITH ALL THEIR GOODS WALK ALONG ROAD. BELGIAN REFUGEES 00:23:23 - BOY WITH PEG-LEG & CANE WALKS HAND-IN-HAND WITH BOY & WOMAN 00:23:35 - NAZI TANKS & MEN DRIVE THROUGH FIELDS 00:23:42 - STOOPING GERMANS RUN BEHIND COVER OF TANK 00:23:49 - AERIAL STUKA DIVE-BOMBERS ATTACK MAGINOT LINE 00:23:57 - ECU EXPLODING BOMB PICKS UP GROUND DIRT 00:24:09 - FRENCH SOLDIERS EXIT FORTIFICATION WITH HANDS UP IN SURRENDER 00:24:13 - ECU FRENCH SOLDIER'S FACE SHOWS DESPAIR 00:24:43 - MONTAGE BELEAGURED BRITISH TROOPS MARCH THROUGH CITY STREETS TO DUNKIRK BEACH 00:24:48 - MONTAGE SOLDIERS WADE INTO SEA AT DUNKIRK BEACH 00:25:02 - MONTAGE RAF BATTLE ATTACKING GERMAN PLANES IN DOG FIGHTS 00:25:08 - MONTAGE PLANES EXPLODE IN AIR, GUNNER'S POV 00:25:22 - MONTAGE TROOPS SCRAMBLE ONTO RESCUE SHIPS AT DUNKIRK 00:25:37 - GERMAN SOLDIERS ON BICYCLES RIDE INTO DUNKIRK 00:25:43 - MONTAGE TRUCKS & EQUIPMENT LEFT ALONG ROADS BY FLEEING ALLIED TROOPS 00:25:46 - GERMAN TROOPS MARCH THRU RUBBLE OF DUNKIRK 00:26:14 - CU HAPPY HITLER GESTURES OVER FALL OF FRANCE IN COMPEIGRE 00:26:33 - GERMAN TROOPS MARCH THRU ARC DE TRIOMPHE 00:26:43 - MONTAGE THOUSANDS OF GERMAN SOLDIERS MARCH TOWARD CAMERA 00:26:59 - LEVAL & MARSHAL PETAIN PUT IN CHARGE OF VICHY GOVERNMENT BY GERMANY 00:27:07 - PETAIN MEETS WITH HITLER 00:27:15 - MONTAGE FACES OF CRYING FRENCHMEN 00:27:32 - MONTAGE GERMAN PLANES OVER ENGLAND IN BLITZ 00:27:58 - MONTAGE BURNING BUILDING OF ENGLAND 00:28:33 - BRITISH FIREFIGHTERS WITH HOSES SILHOUETTED AGAINST BURNING BUILDINGS 00:28:43 - BUILDING COLLAPSES 00:28:52 - PAN RAGING INFERNO OF BURNING BUILDINGS 00:28:57 - MONTAGE PEOPLE GATHER & SLEEP IN SUBWAY BOMB SHELTER 00:29:24 - MONTAGE OF SMOKING, SMOLDERING BUILDINGS & RUBBLE AFTER ATTACK 00:29:36 - MONTAGE FIREFIGHTERS & PEOPLE PICK THRU RUBBLE FOR SURVIVORS 00:29:40 - MONTAGE SURVIVORS & DEAD ARE CARRIED OUT OF RUBBLE 00:30:04 - CHURCHILL WALKS DOWN STREET FOLLOWED BY AIDES & PEOPLE 00:30:10 - CHURCHILL ADDRESSES HIS CABINET WITH DYNAMIC SPEECH
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1919
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1910s
- File Name: VM-300