- Title: VM-1209
- Summary: ON THE FRONT LINE: ANTI-TANK COMBAT - SOVIET SOLDIER USE "MOLOTOV COCKTAILS" TO EFFECTIVELY COMBAT, DISABLE, NAZI TANKS AT FRONT.
- Description:00:41:50 - CAMOUFLAGED SOVIET SOLDIERS BARELY VISIBLE AS THEY HIDE BEHIND BUSHES. MLS TWO SOVIET SOLDIERS RUNNING BEHIND BUSHES CARRYING CASE OF WHAT LOOKS LIKE LIQUOR. (ACTUALLY BOTTLES FILLED WITH GASOLINE), SOLDIER OPENS CASE OF ICE COVERED BOTTLES, WIPES THEM DOWN, LAYS THEM IN SMALLER CASE, COVERS THEM IN ICE. RUNS IN TRENCH, GIVES SMALLER CASE TO SOLDIERS THEREIN. 00:43:02 - CU GOOD SHOTS SHOWING ARMS THE BOTTLES. SOLDIER GOES ABOUT WRAPPING EXPLOSIVES AROUND GASOLINE BOTTLES AND ATTACHING FUSE, COMPLETING THE "MOLOTOV COCKTAIL". HE THEN STORES A NUMBER OF THEM IN HOLE IN WALL OF TRENCH, READY FOR USE. VOICE OVER NARRATOR EXPLAINS PROCESS IN RUSSIAN. CU TWO MOLOTOV COCKTAILS. CU OTHER EXPLOSIVE DEVICES INCLUDING VARIETY HAND GRENADES AND LAND ANTI-TANK MINE. 00:45:14 - MLS SOVIET SOLDIERS RUNNING THROUGH BRUSH IN CROUCHED POSITION. DIGGING DEEP FOX HOLES TO HIDE IN. READYING GRENADES AND MOLOTOV COCKTAILS. SOLDIER PEERS OVER EDGE OF FOX HOLE AWAITING APPROACHING TANKS. MLS GERMAN TANKS TOWARDS CAMERA. CU SOVIET SOLDIER PEERING OVER FOX HOLE, TOWARDS CAMERA. CU TANK ROLLS OVER CONCEALED FOX HOLE, PASSES. SOVIET SOLDIER SPRINGS UP, THROWS EXPLOSIVE DEVICE AT PASSING TANK, TANK. LS EXPLODING TANK. CU DISABLED TANK THREADS. 00:47:10 - ANOTHER APPROACHING TANK. CU HANDS OF SOVIET SOLDIER ARMING MOLOTOV COCKTAIL, LIGHTING THE FUSE, THROWING IT AT THE TANK. TANK BURSTS INTO FLAMES. SOLDIERS THROW MORE PETROL BOMBS AT TANK. CU BURNING TANK. 00:48:00 - CU TANK ROLLING OVER HIDDEN FOX HOLE, POV INSIDE FOX HOLE. AS TANK PASSES OVER, SOVIET SOLDIERS SPRING POUT, TOSS PETROL BOMBS AT TANK, DISABLING IT. 00:48:25 - MS SOVIET SOLDIER HIDES LAND MINE IN BUSHES ON SIDE OF ROAD, ATTACHES STRING, RUNS TO CONCEALED FOX HOLE ON OTHER SIDE OF ROAD. APPROACHING GERMAN TANK FIRING ITS WEAPON TOWARDS CAMERA. SOVIET SOLDIER PULLS MINE TO CENTER OF ROAD WITH STRING, TANK EXPLODES. SOVIET SOLDIER SPRINGS UP, THROWS HAND GRENADES AT DISABLED TANK. TANK BURSTS INTO FLAMES. MORE OF SAME INCLUDING RIFLE PROPELLED GRENADE. 00:51:05 - GERMAN FLAME THROWING TANKS SENDS STREAMS OF FIRE ACROSS WOODED AREA. SOVIET SOLDIERS IN BELOW GROUND TRENCHES ARE NOT AFFECTED. THEY EMERGE WITH MACHINE GUN, FIRE AT TANK. ONE THROWS GRENADE WHICH EXPLODES NEXT TO TANK. 00:51:40 - VARIOUS SHOTS SOVIET ARTILLERY FIRES HEAVY CANNONS AT ADVANCING TANKS. LS HUGE EXPLOSIONS SEND CLOUDS OF SMOKE AND DIRT SKYWARD. SOVIET SOLDIERS ROLL OUT SMALL ARTILLERY PIECE, SET IT UP AND FIRE AT TANKS. HUGE EXPLOSION. TANK EMERGES FROM THE SMOKE AND DIRT. MORE TANKS AND ARTILLERY FIRING. LS GERMAN (?) SOLDIERS CHARGING ACROSS FIELD. SOVIETS FIRING AT THEM FROM CAMOUFLAGED TRENCHES. SCREAMING SOVIET TROOPS CHARGING THROUGH FIELDS UNDER FIRE, WITH BAYONETS FIXED, PASSING MANY DESTROYED ENEMY TANKS. MS GERMAN TANK ON FIRE. 00:55:06 - END.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1209