- Title: VM-1210A
- Summary: PIONEERS AHEAD: GERMAN MILITARY TACTICS IN WWII - SHOW HOW SOLDIERS DESTROY AND NEUTRALIZE ENEMY TROOP AND TANK BARRICADES, PILLBOXES; BUILD PONTOON BRIDGES ACROSS RIVERS AND STREAMS.
- Description:00:01:31 - TITLE: "PIONIERE VORAN" - ANIMATED DRAWING AERIAL CRISS-CROSSING ROADS LEADING TO RIVER , BORDER (?), ANIMATED VEHICLES, CONVOYS, TRAINS OF ALL KINDS HEADING FOR RIVER. SMALL ANIMATED DOTS (REPRESENTING TROOPS (?), VEHICLES, FORM LONG LINE ALONG BORDER / RIVER (?) AERIAL ZOOM IN ON BORDER ABJECT TURNS OUT TO BE ARTILLERY PIECE FIRING ACROSS RIVER. 00:02:52 - MS ARTILLERY CREW FIRING SMALL CANNON FROM BEHIND BRUSH. MCU WELL CAMOUFLAGED GERMAN SOLDIERS READY TO FIRE MACHINE GUN FROM HIDDEN POSITION. CU BREECH OF CANNON AS IT FIRES, PAN TO MUZZLE. LS PAN SHELLS EXPLODING ON OTHER SIDE OF RIVER. ABOVE VIEW CAMOUFLAGED GERMAN SOLDIERS LYING PRONE IN SHRUBS, VARIOUS SOLDIERS WAITING ORDERS TO FIRE OR CHARGE OUT OF SHRUBS. CU SOLDIER PEERS OUT FROM SHRUBS TO OTHER SIDE OF RIVER. 00:03:24 - MCU GERMAN OFFICER PEERING THROUGH BINOCULARS, TOWARDS CAMERA, SUDDENLY LOOKS SKYWARD, WATCHES GERMAN DIVE BOMBER DIVE AND DROP BOMBS ON OTHER SIDE OF RIVER. MS OFFICER LYING ON GROUND LOOKS AT WRIST WATCH, GIVES ORDERS FOR TROOPS TO MOVE OUT. 00:03:57 - VERY COORDINATED, EFFICIENT MANNER, SOLDIERS UNCOVER SEVERAL LONG MOTOR BOATS, CARRY THEM TO RIVER JUMP IN, SPEED ACROSS RIVER. VARIOUS SHOTS SOLDIERS CROUCHED IN SPEED BOATS WITH GUNS READY, JUMP OUT ON OTHER SIDE OF REVER AS SHELLS EXPLODE AROUND THEM. BOATS THEN SPEED BACK TO PICK UP MORE TROOPS, ARTILLERY. MORE SOLDIERS ARRIVE WITH ARTILLERY, CARRIED ACROSS IN INGENIOUS MANNER. SOLDIERS QUICKLY PLACE ARTILLERY, MACHINE GUNS IN POSITION ON ENEMY SIDE OF RIVER. 00:06:16 - AERIAL ANIMATION MAP SHOWS SMALL DOT REPRESENTING SOLDIERS RUSHING INLAND AS THEY STORM ASHORE. ZOOM IN ON GERMAN SIDE OF RIVER TO LARGE CAMOUFLAGED BARGE SITTING ON FLATBED TRUCK. DOZENS SOLDIERS LIFT BARGE OFF TRUCK PHYSICALLY CARRY IT TO RIVER EDGE. AS OTHER SOLDIERS CARRY LONG STEEL BEAMS TO RIVER TO ACT, AS FLOORING FOR BARGE TO HOLD HEAVY WEIGHTS. VARIOUS SHOTS SOLDIERS ADEPTLY ASSEMBLING AN ELABORATE PONTOON BRIDGE TO SPAN RIVER. VARIOUS VIEWS GERMAN SOLDIERS IN VERY EFFICIENT AND COORDINATED MANNER, BUILD PONTOON BRIDGE ACROSS RIVER, COMPLETE WITH RAILINGS. . ANIMATED DRAWINGS SHOW HOW IT'S DONE. 00:13:05 - VARIOUS SHOTS TANKS, MOTORCYCLE TROOPS, TANKS, CROSSING RIVER ON PONTOON BRIDGE. VARIOUS SHOTS MOTORCYCLES EACH WITH THREE SOLDIERS (TWO IN SIDE CAR) SPEED BY TANK BARRIERS WITH CYCLE STILL GOING, TWO SOLDIERS JUMP OFF INTO TANK TRAP WITH EXPLOSIVE DEVICES IN HAND. MS THE SOLDIERS PLANT EXPLOSIVES ON THE CONCRETE TANK BARRIERS, BLOW THEM UP SO TANKS CAN GET BY. CU SOLDIER WRAPS EXPLOSIVE DEVICE AROUND BARRIER, SETS FUSE. OTHER SOLDIERS DO SAME. LS HUGE EXPLOSIONS DESTROY BARRIERS, LEAVE PATH FOR TANK TO GO THROUGH. VARIOUS SHOTS TANKS ROLLING THROUGH. TANKS STOP, FIRE THEIR GUNS, AS GROUND TROOPS RUN BY. 00:14:18 - GERMAN SOLDIERS ROWING TO SHORE ON THREE-MAN RUBBER RAFTS. DOZENS OF SOLDIERS PHYSICALLY LIFT SECTIONS OF BRIDGE, PUT IT IN PLACE ACROSS STREAM. LS TANK ROLLS OVER BRIDGE. 00:15:30 - CU ANIMATED MAP SHOWING ADVANCING UNITS. VARIOUS SHOTS SHOWING GERMAN SOLDIERS USING SPECIAL DEVICES TO DESTROY BARBED WIRE BARRICADES, WHILE UNDER FIRE. SHELLS EXPLODING. 00:16:19 - MS SOLDIER PLACES LONG POLE DEVICE UNDER BARBED WIRE, PULLS FUSE, BARRICADE EXPLODES. TROOPS CHARGE THROUGH BARRICADE UNHINDERED. 00:16:33 - MS GERMAN SOLDIER THROWS SMOKE BOMB TO HIDE ADVANCING TROOPS. THICK HEAVY SMOKE PERMEATES AREA. 00:17:19 - SOLDIERS CHARGE INTO WATER UNDER LOW BRIDGE, EXIT OTHER END. MS TWO OF THEM THROW HAND GRENADES,, HIT THE DIRT. SOLDIER FIRES FLAME THROWER INTO PILLBOX, FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER SOLDIER WHO PLACED LONG POLE WITH EXPLOSIVES INTO PILLBOX. ALL TAKE COVER. PILLBOX EXPLODES. MORE OF SOLDIERS ATTACKING PILLBOXES WITH GRENADES, EXPLOSIVES. MORE OF SAME. 00:18:42 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1210A