CIVILIAN CASUALTIES OF THE GERMAN SHELLING OF ANTWERP [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: CIVILIAN CASUALTIES OF THE GERMAN SHELLING OF ANTWERP [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 156-3
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  • Summary: Their years of German occupation over, the citizens of Antwerp are now faced with a new ordeal, namely German long-range bombardment of the city with, firstly, artillery and then with flying-bombs and rockets.
  • Description: While civilians and British army personnel run for cover as shells from German artillery land in the streets of Antwerp, Belgian volunteers and 11th Armoured Division RAMC personnel lift civilian casualties into a captured German ambulance. British troops and civilians clear loot (?) from the back of a captured German lorry to make room for more injured people. Outside a cinema, armed members of L'Armee Blanche stand over the bodies of four civilians lying on the pavement; a Belgian policeman examines the identity papers of one of the dead. A rescue squad arrives on the scene in a German staff car and a fire engine. Civilian volunteers and RAMC personnel run to assist more of those wounded in the shelling. Civilians load two casualties on stretchers onto a bicycle-pulled cart.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: A70 156-3
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-09-06
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Laws, George E J1916-02-15 (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps (regiment/service) Belgian Army, White Army (regiment/service) Belgian Police (regiment/service) British Army, Div, Armoured, 11 (regiment/service) British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service) Belgian Army, White Army (regiment/service) Belgian Police (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: medical, Belgian military - emergency (object name) medical, British military - movement: stretcher (object name) casualties, Belgian dead - civilian (object name) combat, German - artillery bombardment (object name) transport, German military - car: staff car & [captured] (object name) transport, German military - ambulance: [captured] (object name) Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 93 ft; Running time: 1 min
  • HD Media:Yes
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