- Title: VM-1037C
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:59:22 - "BATTLEFIELDS OF YESTERDAY" TODAY & YESTERDAY ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF EUROPE. A FILM VISIT TO NORMANDY, ACROSS FRANCE, AND DEEP INTO THE HEART OF GERMANY, 10 YEARS AFTER D-DAY. 00:59:25 - NARRATOR TELLS THE WAY IT WAS YESTERDAY AND TODAY ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF EUROPE. 01:00:14 - MS- A CROWD OF KIDS IN SWIM TRUNKS COME RUNNING OVER A SAND DOON AT BEACH IN FRANCE. LS- TROOPS WADE INTO SHORE,UNDER INTENSE FIRE, ON THE SAME BEACH (OMAHA BEACH) ON JUNE 6, 1944, D-DAY. 01:00:49 - MS- MAP SHOWING INVASION ZONE AND ENGLISH CHANNEL DURING WWII. MONTAGE- SCENES OF THE LANDING, MARCH INLAND, PARATROOPS FILLING SKY AND OTHER PREVIOUSLY RECORDED SCENES. 01:01:55 - MS- MONUMENT TO THE BATTLE ON OMAHA BEACH TODAY. MS- COWS GRAZE IN FIELD OF ST. LAURENT. MS-MAMIE EISENHOWER LAYS A WREATH AT THE ST. LAURENT MILITARY CEMETERY FOR U.S. DEAD AS IKE LOOKS ON. 01:02:32 - MS- GENERAL IKE LOOKS OUT AT THE CALM BEACHES OF NORMANDY AFTER THE WAR. MONTAGE- OTHER BEACHES AS THEY LOOK TODAY WITH REMNANTS OF SHATTERED PILLBOXES USED BY THE GERMANS. 01:03:12 - MS- A FARMER RIDES A HORSE AND SMALL CART ON THE ROAD IN A VILLAGE. LS- UTAH BEACH WITH SOME WAR RELICS STILL THERE. MS- MEMORIAL SITS ON A GERMAN BUNKER AT UTAH BEACH. 01:04:02 - MS- NORMANDY FISHERMAN MEND THEIR NETS ON THE BEACH. MONTAGE- GIS PINNED DOWN AT THE SAME BEACH ON D-DAY. 01:04:40 - MS- A TANK CRASHES THROUGH THE HEDGE GROVES AND GIS BATTLING IN THE STREETS OF CHERBOURG 01:05:29 - MS- THE TOWN OF CHERBOURG TODAY WITH A POLICEMAN DIRECTING TRAFFIC AND FISHING BOATS IN THE HARBOR 01:05:57 - LS- THE PEACEFUL TOWN OF SAINT LO. MONTAGE- GIS BATTLE IN THE DEVASTATED STREETS OF ST. LO DURING WWII. 01:07:14 - LS- TROLLEY RIDE DOWN THE STREET OF AACHEN, GERMANY AND PEOPLE WAIT ON A CORNER FOR A BUS. REMAINS OF A BOMBED OUT BUILDING AND PUSHCART VENDORS SELLING THEIR WARES. 01:07:58 - LS- A WOMAN FARMS THE LAND ALONG THE SEIGFRIED LINE NEXT TO THE CONCRETE BARRIERS. MS- A WOMAN LAYS A FLOWER ON THE FRAVE OF A GERMAN SOLDIER. CU- A CROSS WITH A GERMAN HELMET ON TOP. 01:08:31 - LS- U.S. SOLDIERS AND TANKS FIGHT IN THE STREETS OF METZ, THE INDUSTRIAL HEART OF GERMANY. 01:08:47 - LS- CITYSCAPE OF METZ, ON THE MOSELLE RIVER WITH ITS BRIDGES AND CASTLES. LS- RAILROAD YARDS WITH ITS TRACKS AND STEAM ENGINE TRAINS. 01:09:42 - MS- MALMEDY ROAD SIGN. MS- BICYCLISTS WALK THEIR BIKES THROUGH THE QUAINT TOWN. MS- A WOMAN SELLS ICE CREAM TO 2 OTHER WOMEN FROM HER CART MADE UP LIKE A SWAN. 01:10:12 - CU- MONUMENT TO THE AMERICAN DEAD GIS, MURDERED BY NAZIS WHILE PRISONERS OF WAR, BUILT BY THE BELGIAN PEOPLE OF MALMEDY. 01:10:48 - CU- SMALL WHITE CROSS MARKS GRAVE OF GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON, JR. ALONG WITH HUNDREDS OF OTHER CROSSES AT THE AMERICAN CEMETERY IN LUXENBOURG. 01:11:00 - LS- TRAFFIC IN THE QUIET CITY OF BASTOGNE IS SPARSE. A SIGN SAYING 'IN THESE BARRACKS GENERAL MCAULIFFE REPLIED "NUTS" TO THE GERMANS ON DECEMBER 22, 1944. CU- BIG SIGN, "NUTS". 01:11:20 - LS- HUGE 48 STATES MEMORIAL TO THE LIBERATION OF BASTOGNE, BELGIUM. MS- THE CHANGING OF THE BELGIAN GUARD IS THE ONLY MILITARY ACTIVITY LEFT. 01:11:43 - MS- A BELGIAN WOMAN STOPS AT THE MONUMENT TO THE 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION WITH A BUST OF GENERAL MCAULIFFE AND A TANK. 01:12:09 - MONTAGE- WAR FILM OF THE BATTLE AT BASTOGNE SHOWS A U.S. TANK SLIDING ON THE ICE AND SNOW TRYING TO MAKE FORWARD PROGRESS. 01:12:28 - MS- GIS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE TANK PLACE BOARDS UNDER THE TANK THREADS TO NO AVAIL AS THE TANK SKIDS UNCONTROLLABLY. 01:13:04 - MS- A GI NARRATES WAR SCENES OF THE BATTLE OF BASTOGNE PREVIOUSLY LOGGED. 01:14:20 - LS- CURRENT TAKES BOAT OF GIS' TRYING TO CROSS A ICY RIVER CAUSING THEM TO GET OUT INTO THE WATER. 01:14:54 - LS- A CARNIVAL IN THR CITY OF COLOGNE WITH IT'S FERRIS WHEEL AND KIDDY RIDES. MONTAGE- 2000 PLANES BOMB COLOGNE ON MAY 30, 1942. AERIAL- NIGHT SCENES SHOW BRIGHT FLASHES AS BOMBS BURST EVERYWHERE. 01:16:15 - MONTAGE- ANXIETY AND FEAR ON THE FACES OF GIS' AS THEY FIGHT ALONG THE RHINE. MS- A GI FIRES HIS AUTOMATIC RIFLE INTO A BASEMENT WINDOW. 01:17:06 - MS- LONG COLUMNS OF SURRENDERING GERMAN SOLDIERS, 4 ABREAST, AND THEIR HANDS ON THEIR HEADS 01:17:16 - LS- THE REMAINS OF THE COLLAPSED RAMAGEN BRIDGE. LS- ONLY A PILING REMAINS OF THE FAMED BRIDGE TODAY. LS- PEOPLE CAMPING ALONG THE RHINE. 01:18:21 - LS- INDUSTRIAL SMOKESTACKS AND THE FACTORIES OF DORTMUND WHICH WAS BOMBED OFTEN DURING WWII. 01:18:42 - MOTAGE- THE STEEL PLANTS OF ESSEN, BACK IN BUSINESS AFTER THE DESTRUCTIVE BOMBING DURING THE WAR. 01:19:05 - LS- ONE OF THE MANY LITTLE BRIDGES OF DUSSELDORF. MS- SHEEP GRAZE IN THE SHADOW OF A BRIDGE. LS- SAILBOAT SPEEDS ALONG THE RIVER. 01:19:45 - AERIAL- LARGE PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL IN DUSSELDORF BUILT AFTER THE WAR. MS- DRESS SHOP WITH GIRLS MODELING OUTFITS FOR CUSTOMERS. 01:20:36 - MONTAGE- BATTLE SCENES AROUND DUSSELDORF DURING WAR. GIS MARCHING THROUGH THE RUBBLE OF THE CITY. 01:21:15 - LS- 2 STEEPLES OF A CATHEDRAL REMAIN STANDING AMID THE RUBBLE OF NUREMBERG AS GIS RUN THROUGH THE EXTRAORDINARY RUBBLE 01:21:52 - LS- HITLER SPEAKS AT HUGE RALLY IN NUREMBERG. CU- HITLER SMILES AS HE WATCHES THE HUGE ROMAN LIKE PARADE. PAN OF THE COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF THAT CITY. 01:23:01 - MS- 3 GIS WALK DOWN THE SAME STADIUM AISLE WHERE HITLER HELD HIS RALLY. LS- HERMANN GORING WALKS INTO COURT AT THE NUREMBERG TRIALS, FOLLOWED BY HESS AND OTHERS. 01:23:35 - LS- BUSTLING CITY OF NUREMBERG TODAY. LS- PEOPLE DANCE POLKA IN A LARGE FIELD.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1037C