Title:LES ACTUALITES FRANCAISES No 13 [Main Title]
Film Number:COI 537
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Summary: Mute, untitled print of post-liberation French newsreel.
Description: I. Coal mining area, Northern France: (a) Minister of Production Lacoste addresses officials; (b) coal is loaded into trains; (c) scenes of pit head and coal face, and of miners going home at the end of their shift. Close-ups of miners' faces.
II. Aerial view of bombed village. People help with reconstruction (tiling a roof). Women wash clothes in stream; water being transported locally.
III. Alsace-Lorraine: inscription on German war memorial SIE FIELEN DAMIT DIE DEUTSCHE HEIMAT LEBE - SIE FIELEN FÜR IHRE DEUTSCHE HEIMAT 1914-1918 replaced by placard FELLERING SES-ENFANTS VICTIMES DE LA GUERRE 1914-1918. Inscription UNSERN HELDEN is replaced by banner inscribed "Ce monument nous a été imposé par les Boches. Le nötre a été souillé et detruit par eux". Wreath is laid onto it as children in folk costume watch and local band plays. Soldiers march through streets past cheering crowds; banners read VIVE NOS LIBERATEURS and VIVE DE GAULLE.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:COI 537
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1945
Production Country: France
Production Details:
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Lacoste (regiment/service)
Keywords: buildings, French - monumental: war memorial (object name)
industry, French - primary: coal mining (object name)
reconstruction, French (object name)
France (geography)
Alsace-Lorraine (geography)
