FROM PARIS TO THE RHINE : a newsreel history [Main Title]

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  • Title: FROM PARIS TO THE RHINE : a newsreel history [Main Title]
  • Film Number: COI 277
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  • Summary: The course of the war in the last months of 1944.
  • Description: (Reels 1/2) Outline of the situation after the capture of Paris; British advance into Belgium; 3rd US Army advance to Moselle; the supply problem (PLUTO); 1st US Army advance to Aachen; the 'Anvil' landings in South France and advance; the airborne assaults at Graves, Nijmegen and Arnhem; 1st Canadian Army clearing channel ports and Scheldt estuary. (Reels 3/4) Continuing advance on British and American Fronts; French push into Alsace marks Frances to full Allied status (Churchill visits Paris, de Gaulle visits Moscow); in East Europe, Russians advance into Poland and discover Maidanek concentration camp; the Warsaw uprising; advance in Italy; the war in the Balkans (with sequences of Britain, Greek civil war and Tito); (Reels 5/6) The war in Hungary, and Scandinavia (staged 'Resistance' sequence); German preparations for invasion (fortifications and Volkssturm) German Ardennes offensive and its defeat (FIDO); the Yalta Conference.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: COI 277
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: © IWM (COI 277)
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-1945
  • Production Country:GB
  • Production Details:Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) British Movietone News (Production Company) Perrin, Raymond (Production individual) Loewe, Raymond (Production individual) Wills, Colin Frederick George (Production cast)
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  • Physical Characteristics:Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English
  • Technical Details:Footage: 5156 ft; Running time: 55 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    COI 277

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