CAEN [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: CAEN [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 76-1
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  • 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); LycĂ©e 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.
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  • 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)
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  • 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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