Title:PARTISAN PARADES IN ZAGREB, 1945 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 2472
Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY DR IVO VINSKI [Alternative Title]
Summary: The arrival and parading of Partisan troops in Zagreb, May 1945.
Description: Shot of graffiti equating the hammer and sickle to the swastika.
Partisan troops parade through the streets carrying the tricolour with star. Crowds line the street and applaud, some watch from windows. [Vinski is filming from a slightly elevated position inside a building] People from inside looking out of the window onto the parade below.
Crowds watch as armed units, tanks and bicycles pass through the streets.
Huge poster of Tito hangs from a building. Soldiers and civilians chat in the street.
Dr Vinksi chats with Ljudevit Sestic, a well known Croatian artist from Karlovac, dressed in uniform (Partisan?).
A young male Partisan (relative of Vinski?) at home with his family. They chat and laugh and pose for the camera.
A Partisan stands guard with a rifle outside a building. Very close-up shot of him.
A maid weeds flower boxes on the Vinskis' patio.
Pill boxes are demolished using pneumatic drills. A number 4 tram passes by.
Several soldiers stand next to military jeeps parked outside the Hotel Dubrovnik. The communist star appears on the bonnet of the jeep as well as the American flag and the words .... in Cyrillic.
A civilian? directs horsedrawn traffic. A close-up of a woman in the street.
A woman tends the flower beds in the Theatre Square.
Crowds gather around the polar bear enclosure at the zoo. Dr Vinski's son, Ivek, also looks on.
More parades in the street - someone carries a placard with a star and the text DRVINJE.
A large gathering in the main square for the formal proclamation of liberation. The crowd looks towards a balcony on a building draped with large tricolours. A sign on a roof reads TUNGSRAM KRYPION. Partisans salute. Crowds line balconies and rooftops around the square. A low-flying plane passes overhead.
Close-up shots of faces in the crowd. Scenes of the crowd applauding - happy faces. Close-up of Vinski nodding and smiling at the camera. More close-up crowd scenes.
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY DR IVO VINSKI [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:MGH 2472
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1945-05
Production Country: Croatia
Production Details: Vinski, Ivo (Production individual)
