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Title:
CAEN [Allocated Title]
Film Number:
A70 76-1
Other titles:
Summary:
Scenes inside Caen as British and French troops consolidate their hold on the devastated city.
Description:
Vichy poster deriding Allies' snail-like progress up the Italian peninsula; British troops in rubble-blocked street near Abbaye aux Hommes; Vichy anti-Churchill poster ("His last hope - Hunger"); Palais de Justice (with British and Canadian troops in Place Fontenette); Lycée Malherbe and Abbaye aux Hommes (St Etienne) in use as refugee centres; infantrymen (2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles) in position near River Orne and Caen racecourse; a 'blitzed' street; posters urging Frenchmen to join the Waffen-SS ("Shoulder to shoulder against the common enemy", "Your comrades wait for you in the Waffen-SS"); infantry (2nd RUR) moving through 'blitzed' city centre; Frenchwomen talking to SHAEF civil affairs major; RUR infantrymen occupying a German slit-trench near racecourse; smouldering rubble; Churchill AVREs (5th Assault Regiment RE) advancing towards Orne past racecourse, watched by infantrymen, and returning under fire; RUR infantrymen patrolling ruins and mansion, during which they meet French Red Cross workers; acres of 'blitzed' ground; Red Cross workers passing British troops around Cook's Tourist Office; refugees, Red Cross workers in city centre.
Alternative Title:
Colour:
B&W
Digitised:
Yes
Object_Number:
A70 76-1
Sound:
Silent
Access Conditions:
IWM Film: IWM
Featured Period:
1939-1945
Production Date:
1944-07-10-1944-07-10
Production Country:
GB
Production Details:
Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Boulting, Roy Alfred Clarence (Production individual) Harris, L W J (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords:
Physical Characteristics:
Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
Technical Details:
35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 609 ft; Running time: 6 mins
HD Media:
Yes
Link to IWM Collections page:
A70 76-1
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