BAYEUX CELEBRATES ITS LIBERATION [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: BAYEUX CELEBRATES ITS LIBERATION [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 39-1
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  • Summary: General de Gaulle's Provisional Government asserts its presence in those parts of Normandy liberated by the British, Canadian and American armies.
  • Description: Speaking on behalf of the French National Committee of Liberation, a Free French radio correspondent, Lieutenant Maurice Schumann, delivers a rousing speech to a crowd of several hundred people gathered in a park in the centre of Bayeux. Beside him on the flag-bedecked podium are several Allied officers and NCOs, including the British Chief of Civil Affairs for Bayeux, who are presented with bouquets of flowers by two little girls whose parents have been deported by the Germans. At the end of the speech, the crowd bellows out the Marseillaise and gives V for Victory sign.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: A70 39-1
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-06-09-1944-06-09
  • Production Country:GB
  • Production Details:Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production Company) Carpenter, L (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics:Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details:35mm Footage: 167 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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    A70 39-1

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