WELT IM FILM NO 27 [Main Title]

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  • Title: WELT IM FILM NO 27 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: WIF 27
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  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Army sport. a. Canadian forces in Holland (show jumping, boxing and wrestling). b. British ATS in Aldershot (athletics, including a sack race). II. Marburg conference of the Free Press in the American Zone. III. Bad Tölz: traditional ceremony of the 'blessing of the horses' and festivities, revived after Nazi ban. IV. US bomb disposal team at work on one of the Japanese trans-Pacific balloon bombs. V. The Nuremberg judges (Parker, Biddle, Nikitchenko, de Vabres, Falco, Lawrence and Birkett) meet in Berlin; close-up of the indictment. VI. Hamburg women and children evacuated for the winter to Heide. VII. Viennese primary school children learn English. VIII. US team of stunt-drivers ("Helldrivers"). IX. Festival in Regensburg; US 3rd Army C/O General Truscott attends; choir. X. Salmon fishing and processing in British Columbia. XI. Berlin and Vienna: Allied troops take strong measures against black marketeers (MPs round up suspects). XII. US troops returning from Far East to New York and San Francisco.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: WIF 27
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-11-15
  • Production Country: Allied Military Government
  • Production Details:
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Biddle, Anthony Joseph Drexler Jr. (person) Birkett, Norman (person) de Vabres, (person) Falco, Robert (person) Lawrence, (person) Nikitchenko, Iona T (person) Parker, (person) Truscott, Lucian King (person) Canadian Army (regiment/service) British Army, Auxiliary Territorial Service (regiment/service) United States Army & [bomb disposal team] (regiment/service) United States Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: recreation, British military - sport: athletics (object name) recreation, Canadian military - sport (object name) journalism and record, Allied - press: Marburg conference (object name) ceremonies, German - customary: Blessing of the Horses, Bad Tolz (object name) operations, United States military - ?: bomb disposal (object name) weapons, Japanese - bomb: balloon bomb (object name) law and order, Allied - judicial process: Nuremberg trials, meeting of judges (object name) refugees, German - relocation (object name) society, Austrian - education: English lessons (object name) ceremonies, United States - display: Helldrivers stunt display (object name) arts, German civilian - music: Regensberg festival (object name) agriculture, Canadian - fisheries: salmon (object name) law and order, Allied - enforcement: arrest of black marketeers (object name) operations, United States military - return (object name) Aldershot, Hampshire (geography) Netherlands (geography) Germany & <American zone> (geography) Germany & Bad Tolz (geography) Germany & Hamburg, Hamburg (geography) Germany & Heide (geography) Austria & Vienna, Vienna (geography) Germany & Regensberg (geography) Canada (geography) Austria & Vienna, Vienna (geography) Germany & Berlin, Berlin (geography) New York, New York, United States of America (geography) San Francisco, California, United States of America (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: German Title language: German Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 1894 ft; Running time: 21 mins
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