- Title: VM-1325
- Summary: DIE FRONTSCHAU (FRONTIER): GERMAN WWII - GERMAN INFANTRY AND PANZER UNITS ON RUSSIAN FRONT IN BITTER COLD, SNOW COVERED BATTLEFRONT
- Description:00:02:09 - PAN GERMAN SOLDIERS IN WHITE CAMOUFLAGED COVERALLS IN SNOWBOUND FIELD. 00:02:16 - GERMAN HALF-TRACK PULLING ARTILLERY PIECE ROLLS THROUGH MUDDY STREAM TOWARDS CAMERA.. OTHER MECHANIZED UNITS STRUGGLE, SLIDE ALONG SNOW AND MUDDY ROADS. GERMAN SOLDIERS HITCH RIDE AS OTHERS FOLLOW ALONG. ARTILLERY SOLDIERS WEARING HEAVY WINTER CLOTHING, STRUGGLE TO SET UP ARTILLERY POSITIONS. SOLDIER USES PICK AXE TO SECURE AS LARGE ARTILLERY PIECE. CU SOLDIER WIPES DOWN SHELLS. 00:03:28 - SOLDIER TURNS WHEEL WHICH RAISES CANNON BARREL INTO FIRING POSITION. CU CANNON RISING. SOLDIERS LOAD CANNON WITH SHELL, FIRE CANNON, EJECT SHELL, LOAD ANOTHER. LS SHELL EXPLODING IN DISTANT SNOW-COVERED FIELD. MORE OF CANNON FIRING. CU SHELL EXPLODING. VARIOUS VIEWS GERMANS IN WHITE COVERALLS FIRING MACHINE GUN AND MORTAR FROM DUG IN POSITIONS.. MORE OF MACHINE GUN, ARTILLERY FIRE 00:03:34 - VARIOUS VIEWS GERMAN SOLDIERS ON THE MOVE THOUGH RIGID COUNTRYSIDE. SOLDIERS LYING PRONE ON FIELD OF SNOW FIRE THEIR RIFLES AND MACHINE GUNS. GERMAN SOLDIER TOSSING A HAND GRENADE, CROUCHES AS IT EXPLODES ON RIDGE. 00 04V59 VARIOUS VIEWS RUSSIAN ARTILLERY OFFICER GESTURES TO FIRE, CU CANNONS FIRE. GERMAN SOLDIERS LAYING ON GROUND IN SNOW AS SHELLS EXPLODE NEAR THEM. MORE RUSSIAN ARTILLERY FIRING. GERMANS ADVANCE IN SNOW UNDER FIRE, SOME HIT THE DECK AS THEY ADVANCE. 00:05:31 - GERMAN OFFICER RAISES, FIRES FLARE IN AIR. LS FLARE IN SKY. LS GERMAN TANKS ADVANCING IN FIELD. PANZER UNIT ROLLING THROUGH FIELD POV TANK RIDING ALONGSIDE. GERMAN FIRING LARGE ARTILLERY GUN. GERMANS FIRING FROM ATOP TANKS, GERMANS FIRING FROM SMALL ARTILLERY PIECE. 00:06:21 - CU SOLDIER IN WOOLEN HAT FIRING BAZOOKA (RUSSIAN OR GERMAN ?), TANKS SPEEDING THROUGH BARBED WIRE BARRICADES. SOLDIERS RUNNING THROUGH SNOWY FIELDS UNDER INTENSE FIRE. PANZER UNITS ADVANCING, FIRING, FIRINGS FROM ATOP TANKS 00:07:45 - VARIOUS VIEWS GERMAN TROOPS ADVANCING THROUGH SNOW COVERED FIELDS UNDER FIRE, TANKS DOING SAME. TANKS. 00:08:22 - LS OPEN FIELDS COVERED WITH SNOW WITH SOUNDS OF GUNFIRE, EXPLOSIONS HEARD. 00:08:33 - SOLDIERS ADVANCING IN FIELD, LONG ROWS OF RESIDENTIAL HOMES IN B/G. 00:08:54 - MLS SEVERAL RUSSIAN SOLDIERS IN SNOWY FIELD WITH THEIR HANDS UP. CU GERMAN SOLDIER PASSES MORTAR SHELL TO ANOTHER, WHO PLACES IT IN MORTAR. ALL BEND DOWN AS MORTAR FIRES. LS ONE OF SEVERAL HOUSES IN GROUP BURNS INTENSELY. AS GERMAN TANK UNIT ADVANCE TOWARDS IT. 00:09:45 - GERMAN STANDS IN FIELD WATCHING FARMHOUSE BURN. MORE GERMAN ARTILLERY FIRING. PAN REMAINS OF FARM HOUSE BURNING INTENSELY. LS BURNING FARM BUILDINGS MS TANK ROLLS BY BURNING HOUSE, 00:10:24 - MS SNIPER IN WHITE. LIES IN SLOW, FIRES RIFLE. 00:10:52 - CU FARM HOUSE ON FIRE, INTENSE FLAMES.. RUNNING GERMAN TROOPS ENTERING RESIDENTIAL AREA. TWO SOLDIERS PHYSICALLY PULLING AN ARTILLERY PIECE ON WHEELS INTO POSITION THROUGH, THROUGH SNOW COVERED GROUNDS. TWO GERMAN SOLDIERS RUN TOWARDS BARN, TAKE COVER BEHIND SNOW COVERED LOGS, SET UP MORTAR.. CU SOLDIER PLACES SHELL IN MORTAR, TWO DUCK AS MORTAR FIRES. VARIOUS SHOTS GERMAN SOLDIERS AIMING, FIRING RIFLES FROM BEHIND BARRICADES. 00:11:38 - VARIOUS VIEWS GERMAN INFANTRY, MECHANIZED UNITS EXITING VILLAGE ON MUDDY, SNOWY ROAD, GROUNDS. TOWARDS CAMERA.. UNITS PASS BURNING FIERCELY BUILDINGS CU SAME. 00:12:14 - GERMAN SOLDIER RUNS INTO LOG CABIN AS OTHERS GO TO BACK. 00:12:54 - VARIOUS SHOTS SEVERAL GERMAN SOLDIERS SEARCHING RUSSIAN POW'S AS THEY EXIT HOUSE.. GERMAN GUARDS PRISONERS AS THEY WALK ON MUDDY ROAD AWAY FROM SNOW-BOUND VILLAGE IN B/G. VARIOUS VIEWS PANZER UNITS EXITING VILLAGE ON SNOW-BOUND, MUDDY ROADS. VARIOUS CU SHOTS TANK WHEELS, THREADS AS THEY MOVE ALONG. GERMAN SOLDIERS MOVING QUICKLY OUT OF VILLAGE. LONG LIME TANKS, TRUCKS ON MUDDY ROAD, EXITING VILLAGE, PASSING BURNING HOMES. 00:16:28 - TITLE 'DIE FRONTSCHAU" - GERMAN LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION OF FILM 00:16:35 - TITLE: "DER OBWEHRKAMPF IM WINTER", "FRONTSCHAU NR. 8 00:16:45 - VARIOUS PICTURESQUE WINTER SCENES OF FOREST. MS VARIOUS SHOTS TWO WHITE SHEET CLAD SOLDIERS TREKKING THROUGH FOREST ON CROSS COUNTRY SKIS, SKI POLES, STOP BEHIND PINE BUSH FOR COVER, PEER THROUGH BINOCULARS FOR SIGNS OF ENEMY. MS TWO GERMAN SOLDIERS BEHIND LOGS FORTIFICATION, BACKS TO CAMERA, ONE STANDING PEERING THROUGH BINOCULARS INTO SNOW BOUND WOODS., BACK TO CAMERA. 00:17:35 - MCU SHEET CLAD SOLDIER PEERS THROUGH BINOCULARS POINTS TO SOMETHING. TWO OTHER SOLDIERS IN SHEETS, LYING IN FOX HOLES PEERING THROUGH BINOCULARS, POINTING TO SOMETHING. TWO GERMAN SOLDIERS WALKING THROUGH SNOW BOUND WOODS ONE WITH PAPER IN HAND, GERMAN OFFICER EXITS TUNNEL IN GROUND, IS HANDED PAPER BY SOLDIERS, HE READS IT. CU VARIOUS FACE SHOTS GERMAN SOLDIERS. 00:18:58 - MCU GERMAN FEET TREKKING THROUGH SNOW. LOMG SINGLE SINGLE LINE GERMAN SOLDIERS, MARCH THROUGH SNOW BOUND WOODS. LS GERMAN SOLDIERS IN WAIST HIGH TRENCH, SOME IN WHITE CAMOUFLAGE, PEER THROUGH BINOCULARS MLS GERMAN SOLDIERS IN WHITE TREK SINGLE-LINE THROUGH KNEE-HIGH SNOW. SKI TROOPS GOING THROUGH THICK WOODS.. 00:20:01 - GERMAN MACHINE GUNNER, RIFLEMAN FIRE FROM BEHIND SNOW BARRICADE. SKI TROOPS (ENEMY ?) SCATTER FOR COVER. CU BELT OF AMMO PASSING THROUGH MACHINE GUN AS IT FIRES. WHITE CLAD SKI TROOPS CARRY WOUNDED ON STRETCHER IN HEAVY WOODED AREA 00:21:40 - GERMAN MACHINE GUN NEST IN BELOW GROUND BUNKER, GERMAN MACHINE GUNNER LYING PRONE ON STOMACH, FIRES HIS GUN. MCU MACHINE GUNNER IN TRENCH SUMMONS HELP AS HE SPOTS ENEMY. HE IS JOINED BY TWO OTHERS HAS HE FIRES. SOLDIER IN BUNKER SPOTS ENEMY WITH BINOCULARS, POINTS TO THEM. GERMAN SOLDIERS RUNNING FORWARD, DIVE TO GROUND AS THEY ARE FIRED UPON, 00:22:26 - GROUP OF GERMAN SOLDIERS RUN FROM UNDER GROUND BUNKER TO RACK HOLDING THEIR HELMETS AND RIFLES, THEY THEN RUN TO THEIR MACHINE GUN POSTS IN FRONT OF BARBED WIRE FENCE. WHITE CLAD SOLDIERS GET OFF GROUND, CHARGE FORWARD. TWO SOLDIERS MAN THEIR MACHINE GUN IN FOX HOLE. WHITE CLAD SOLDIERS ADVANCE THROUGH WOODS ON SKIS. 00:23:13 - CU GERMAN SOLDIER SETS RANGE ON MORTAR. MORE OF WHITE CLAD TROOPS CHARGING THROUGH SNOW-BOUND WOODS.. 00:23:43 - TWO GERMAN SOLDIER LYING ON STOMACH FIRING ROUND AFTER ROUND OF MORTAR SHELLS. DUCKING DOWN AFTER EACH SHOT. TANKS ROLLING THROUGH WOODS KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES IN THEIR PATH, ARTILLERY CREW PULL THEIR SMALL ARTILLERY PIECE INTO POSITION 00:24:35 - MLS GERMAN SOLDIER ATOP HIGH TREE USES PERISCOPE TO SPOT ENEMY GIVE POSITIONS TO ARTILLERY. ARTILLERY UNITS FIRE. LS TANK SPEEDING THROUGH WOODS, KNOCKS DOWN TREES IN ITS WAY. VARIOUS VIEWS ARTILLERY, TANKS FIRING GUNS. MLS HUGE EXPLOSION IN WOODS. LS TANK MOVES FORWARD FIRING FLAME THROWER. MORE HEAVY GUNS FIRING, MORE RESULTING LARGE EXPLOSIONS 00:25:54 - MACHINE GUN NEST IN UNDERGROUND BUNKER, FIRING. MCU WHITE CLAD SNIPER LOADS, FIRES RIFLE. MCU WHITE CLAD SOLDIERS LYING ON SNOWY GROUND CU THROUGH BARBED WIRE WITH WIRE CUTTER. MACHINE GUNNER, BACK TO CAMERA, AS SEEN FROM INSIDE UNDERGROUND BUNKER AS HE FIRES. 00:26:45 - MS TANK PULLS BULL DOZER SCOOP WITH THREE DEAD WHITE CLAD BODIES ON IT IT. WHITE CLAD SOLDIERS FOLLOW BEHIND ON FOOT FOR PROTECTION. MS GERMAN MACHINE GUNNER FIRES (ON THEM /). GROUP BEHIND TANK HITS THE GROUND. TANK ADVANCES AS WHITE CLAD TROOPS LIE PRONE ON GROUND AS SNIPER FIRE IS HEARD. GERMAN MACHINE GUNNER FIRES, GERMAN ARTILLERY FIRE. SHELL BURST NEAR TANK. 00:27:34 - MCU WHITE CLAD SOLDIER (GERMAN ?) SLOWLY CRAWLS FORWARD, ALONG SNOW COVERED GROUND, UNDER FIRE. SOLDIER CRAWLS TO BARBED WIRE BARRICADE, PUTS DOWN HIS RIFLE, STARTS CUTTING BARBED WIRE WITH WIRE CUTTER CU GERMAN THROWS HAND GRENADE. LS EXPLOSION. MORE ARTILLERY UNITS FIRING. DISTANT EXPLOSIONS. 00:28:33 - GERMAN PATROL IN WOODS TOWARDS CAMERA. GERMAN WHITE CLAD TROOPS RUN THROUGH FARM AREA OUT TO FIELDS. LS VARIOUS VIEWS GERMAN SOLDIERS RUNNING THROUGH RUGGED SNOW BOUND FIELDS IN SINGLE LINE GROUPS, HITTING THE GROUND FROM TIME TO TIME. LS RUNNING SOLDIER JUST MISSES BEING HIT BY EXPLODING SHELL. 00:29:52 - GERMAN SOLDIERS LEAVING FARMHOUSE PAUSE TO WATCH DEAD BODY ON GROUND. LS BURNING FARM HOUSE. LS ENEMY PRISONERS WITH HANDS UP FARM HOUSE BURNS INTENSELY AS IT IS FANNED BY HIGH WINDS. SWIRLING SMOKE SHOOTS SKYWARD, FILLING THE AREA WITH SMOKE. PAN REMAINS OF BUILDINGS. 00:30:29 - GERMAN HITCH A RIDE ON HORSE DRIVEN ARTILLERY PIECE.. 00:30:39 - GERMAN AT HIS MACHINE GUN SITS IN PILE OF HAY AND SNOW AS HE LOOKS AT THE NOW QUIET BATTLEFIELD. ANOTHER CLAD IN WHITE WITH RIFLE AT READY SITS ATOP TRENCH AND CAVE CARVED INTO GROUND. SOLDIERS IN WHITE SHEETS RUN THROUGH TRENCH AND INTO CAVE. CU WHITE CLAD SENTRY SCANS BATTLEFIELD WITH BINOCULARS. ANOTHER IN TRENCH PEERS THROUGH Y SHAPED PERISCOPE. 00:31:05 - GERMAN KNEELS AT HIS MACHINE GUN, PIPE IN MOUTH AS HE SCANS THE QUIET BATTLEFIELD. LS BODIES COVERED BY SNOW. HOUSES IN B/G graphic. LS PLANE FLIES OVER GROUP OF HOUSES IN DISTANT FIELDS. 00:31:25 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1325