Title:PRELUDE IN AFRICA (ledger title) [Main Title]
Film Number:COI 244
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Summary: Roughly-edited film apparently relating to the closing stages of the Allied North African campaign of 1942-43.
Description: A British General (Alexander ?) reviews troops; combat in desert landscape. (Artillery fire, tanks and trucks advance, 'Massicault' sign; long aerial views of a town (Tunis ?). Germans surrender from dug-out, Germans as prisoners of war; wrecked harbour installations; film shot from a lorry driving through welcoming crowds; an armoured car and tank fire point blank at a building; wounded German prisoners are given water; more 'liberation' material (British soldiers, POWs, cheering crowds; one soldier is enthusiastically kissed by a girl); film of Roosevelt and Churchill at the Casablanca Conference (WSC speaking); a victory parade is held, reviewed by Generals Alexander, Anderson, Giraud and Eisenhower and Admiral Cunningham (named in a fragment of Arabic [?] commentary), accompanied by an aircraft flypast, (presumably) in Tunis.
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Alexander, Harold (1st Earl Alexander of Tunis) (person)
Anderson, Kenneth Arthur Noel (person)
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person)
Cunningham, Andrew Browne (person)
Eisenhower, Dwight David (person)
Giraud, Henri H (person)
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (person)
British Army (regiment/service)
German Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: celebrations, Tunisian - liberation (object name)
ceremonies, Tunisian - event-related: victory parade, Tunis (object name)
combat, Allied (object name)
prisoners of war, German - surrender (object name)
society, British military - friendship (object name)
Second World War & Casablanca Conference (event)
Morocco & Casablanca (geography)
Tunisia & Tunis (geography)
