- Title: VM-1208
- Summary: DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU: GERMAN FILM SHOWING BATTLE FOR IMPORTANT RUSSIAN NAVAL BASE IN SEVASTOPOL. DURING WWII SEVASTOPOL WITHSTOOD BOMBARDMENT BY THE GERMANS IN 1941 - 1942 WHICH LASTED FOR 250 DAYS. THIS TELLS GERMAN STORY OF THAT BATTLE.
- Description:01:08:41 - MAP OF CRIMEAN PENINSULA OF UKRAINE SHOWING CITY OF SEVASTOPOL[ ALONG BLACK SEA. GERMAN VOICE OVER SPEAKS OF BATTLE OF SEVASTOPOL (?). ANIMATED MAP SHOWS FORTIFICATION OF PENINSULA. AERIAL PHOTO VIEW SAME AREA. 01:08:48 - VARIOUS GERMAN TANK MOVEMENTS ALONG MOUNTAIN ROADS. AERIAL VIEW SAME. KICKING UP CLOUDS OF DUST. GERMAN MECHANIZED UNITS ADVANCING ON PENINSULA. GERMAN BOMBER SQUADRONS IN FLIGHT. CU BOMBER PILOT. AERIAL VIEW OF GROUND TARGETS, BOMBS FALLING, PAN EXPLOSIONS ON GROUND POV PLANES. CU PILOTS HANDS AT CONTROLS. SOUNDS OF SCREAMING DIVE BOMBERS. GERMAN SOLDIERS ON GROUND WAITING FOR BOMBERS TO FINISH. LS EXPLOSIONS. VARIOUS BATTLE SCENES GERMANS FIRING MACHINE GUNS, WITHSTANDING BOMBARDMENT BY SOVIET ARTILLERY AND OTHER ACTION SCENES. MCU SOVIET MACHINEGUN FIRING FROM BUNKER. SOVIET SOLDIER, BACK TO CAMERA FIRES MACHINEGUN. GRAPHIC SHOT GERMANS ADVANCING IN FIELD, ONE FALLS DEAD. GERMAN SOLDIER CUTS BARBED WIRE ON BATTLEFIELD. 01:11:48 - MS GERMAN SOLDIER USES FLAME THROWER ON SOVIET CONCRETE BUNKER. GERMAN SOLDIER EXAMINES DESTROYED SOVIET ARTILLERY FORTIFICATIONS AND UNDERGROUND BUNKERS, MS GERMAN QUESTIONS SOVIET PRISONER. CU HARDENED FACES SOVIET PRISONERS. CU PAN DESTROYED HUGE CANNONS. GERMAN SOLDIERS EXAMINE MANGLED WRECK OF UNDERGROUND BUNKER. PAN RUBLE REMAINS OF BUILDINGS AND SCATTERED CANNON BARRELS. MANGLED TRAIN TRACKS, OTHER STEEL STRUCTURES. 01:13:10 - GERMAN SOLDIERS, BACKS TO CAMERA PEER ACROSS RIVER WITH BINOCULARS TO WATCH RESULTS OF THEIR BOMBARDMENT. CANNONS FIRE IN F/G EXPLOSIONS SEEN ON OTHER SIDE OF RIVER. CONTINUED FIERCE BOMBARDMENT BY GERMAN ARTILLERY. OFFICER WATCHES RESULTS WITH BINOCULARS. 01:13:50 - MLS GIANT GERMAN CANNON FIRES VOLLEY, CREATES HUGE CLOUD BLACK SMOKE. LS GIANT EXPLOSION ON OTHER SIDE RIVER MS GERMAN SOLDIERS STAND AROUND WATCHING RESULTS OF GIANT CANNON EXPLOSIONS THROUGH BINOCULARS. PAN BOMBED OUT BUILDINGS. 01 14 32 MS TWO COWERING GERMAN SOLDIERS ADVANCE CAUTIOUSLY THROUGH AREA OF BOMBED OUT BUILDINGS OF CITY, FEARFUL OF SNIPERS. 01:14:55 - VARIOUS VIEWS GERMAN SOLDIERS UNDER FIRE CAUTIOUSLY RUNNING FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE WITH SOUNDS OF CHATTERING MACHINE GUNS AND ARTILLERY. GERMANS FIRE MORTARS. ARTILLERY CREW ROLL UP SMALL CANNON INTO POSITION IN CITY, WHILE UNDER FIRE. CU SOLDIER SETS RANGE ON CANNON, PLACES SMALL SHELL IN CANNON, FIRES. CU PILE OF ARTILLERY SHELLS. HAND SETTING FUSES IN SHELL. 01:15:35 - GERMAN SOLDIERS ROLL BOMB CARRIAGE WITH HUGE SHELL ON TRACKS TO HUGE CANNON. SHELL IS PLACED INTO HUGE STUBBY CANNON / MORTAR, BY MECHANICAL RAM ROD. CANNON FIRES WITH HUGE EXPLOSION. SIDE VIEW OF STUBBY WIDE MOUTH CANNON. CU FRONT. CREW OF ARTILLERY MEN MOVE HUGE SHELL VIA OVERHEAD WINCH. ABOVE SHOT EIGHT SOLDIERS ARE NEEDED TO MOVE HUGE SHELL INTO BREECH OF GIANT STUBBY MORTAR,. CU GIANT MOUTH OF MORTAR FACING CAMERA, RAISED INTO POSITION. MLS MORTAR FIRED. LS EXPLOSION. 01:17:28 - MS GERMAN SOLDIER LOOKS DOWN BARREL OF MORTAR IS ALMOST WIDE ENOUGH FOR HIM TO WALK IN IT. 01:17:40 - VARIOUS SHOTS SUPER CANNON SLOWLY ROLLING INTO POSITIONS ON RAILROAD TRACKS. 01:18:12 - GIANT SHELL IS ROLLED ON CARRIAGE INTO POSITION AND LOADED INTO BREECH. POWDER LOADS RAM RODDED INTO BREECH. CANNON POINTS SKYWARD. MS GERMANS SET RANGE, CANNON FIRES. LS HEAVY BLACK SMOKE RISES FROM POINT OF IMPACT. MONTAGE HUGE CANNONS CONTINUE FIRING THE ENORMOUS SHELLS. 01:20:01 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1942
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1208