UFA NR 602 [Main Title]

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  • Title: UFA NR 602 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: GWY 158
  • Other titles: UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 602 [Alternative Title]
  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Spanish Navy sail training ship. Spanish officers visit Juan Sebastian de Elcano in port before four-masted sailing ship weighs anchor and puts to sea. II. Funicular in French Alps. Man descends from suspended funicular in the Savoy Alps, where skiers come down slopes. III. Men's slalom ski competition in Switzerland. IV. Horse racing at Cagnes-sur-Mer in the South of France. V. Diesel energy plant in Denmark. VI. Japanese Army operations in China. Animated map of China from Hunan to Chungking. Japanese soldiers make their way across tropical forest and along road in southern province of Hunan. Natives line route waving welcome. Buddhist priest is bystander In Chekiang province, south of Nanking, Japanese advance across mountainous terrain with aid of mule transports and fire mortars and artillery. In Shenshi province, north west of Nanking, line of Japanese soldiers files through rocky pass in very mountainous terrain and open fire against distant road. VII. German tank battle in Tunisia. Animated map of North Africa from Böne to Gabès. Tank regiment in reserve is sheltered by cactus vegetation while crews shave themselves and check machines. Pzkpfw IIIs set off and Sdkfz 251 crosses wadi at base of Atlas mountains in Western Tunisia. Long column of tanks and infantry cross on desert road. Tank battle begins with view from inside tank, then Pzkpfw III Ausf Js cross desert, with explosions in distance. American tanks blaze after battle and British and American soldiers are taken prisoner. Rommel followed by Kesselring walks past cactus to view wreckage of US tank. VIII. Waffen SS Dutch Legion investiture on Eastern Front. Generalleutnant Sinnhuber awards Knights Cross to young soldiers of Freiwilligen-Legion Nederland, including nineteen-year-old SS-Sturmmann Moymann. Comrades standing in snow appear in poor physical condition. IX. Germans fight off Russian landing near Novorossiysk. Animated map of Sea of Azov and Caucasus. German soldiers scramble to uncover guns situated on rocky coastline and open fire causing explosions in sea. German infantry move forward through wood and across open ground past blazing tank. Wrecked US M3A1 tanks and transport in sea suggest defeat of Russian landing attempt in Kuban area.
  • Alternative Title: UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 602 [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: GWY 158
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM-GERMAN Attribution: IWM – GWY 158
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1943-03
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details: UFA (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Kesselring, Albert (person) Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen (person) Sinnhuber, Johann (person) Moymann (SS-Sturmmann) (person) Spanish Navy & Juan Sebastian de Elcano (regiment/service) German Army (regiment/service) IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY (regiment/service) German Legion Nederland (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: recreation, French civilian - sport: skiing (object name) delegations, Spanish national - military: Spanish officers visit Juan Sebastian de Elcano training ship (object name) ships, Spanish naval - STR: Juan Sebastian de Elcano & [sail] (object name) transport, French - (?): suspended funicular (object name) recreation, Swiss civilian - sport: skiing (object name) recreation, French civilian - sport: horse racing (object name) industry, Danish - power (object name) operations, Japanese military - movement (object name) operations, Japanese military - sortie (object name) armour, German - halftrack: Sdkfz 251 (object name) armour, German - tank: Pzkpfw III (object name) combat, German - armoured (object name) prisoners of war, British - surrender (object name) prisoners of war, United States - surrender (object name) ceremonies, German - event-related: investiture of Knights Cross (object name) armour, United States - tank: M3A1 Stuart III & [British] & [wrecked] (object name) operations, German military - sortie (object name) Spain (geography) Alps (Mountains), France (geography) Switzerland (geography) Cagnes-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, France (geography) Denmark (geography) China & Chekiang (geography) China & Hunan (geography) China & Shenshi (geography) Tunisia (geography) Germany & <Eastern Front> (geography) Russia & Novorossiysk area (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: Arabic Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 1078 ft; Running time: 12 mins
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