Title:BRITISH MOVIETONE NEWS ISSUE 829 (22 APRIL 1945) [Main Title]
Film Number:NMV 829
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Summary:
Description: I. "Italy. The Last Offensive." Mahratta troops from Central India move up before the 8th Army attack on the Senio River. Crocodile flame-throwers clear a path through an orchard.
II. "In the Wake of the Hun." Eisenhower visits the concentration camp at Ohrdruf and watches a survivor demonstrate a Nazi flogging bench. Other survivors from the German regime are some skeletal British and Allied POWs forced to trek 600 miles in two months from the East to Göttingen, a group of surviving participants from the 1942 Dieppe "reconnaissance raid" and some prisoners (Poles, Czech, French, Yugoslav and Irish) liberated by the Coldstream Guards from a convent.
III. "2,000,000 since D-Day." Aerial view of a vast POW cage at Würms.
IV. "Second battle of Arnhem." Soldiers embark in landing craft prior to the attack on Arnhem which has already been bombarded by artillery. After crossing a tributary of the Rhine, troops enter the town and engage in mopping up operations. Blazing buildings collapse; German prisoners with their hands up run past the camera. Item concludes with view of a wooden cross marked "Unbekannter Englischer Soldat" allegedly from the first battle of Arnhem.
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Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:NMV 829
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1945-04-22
Production Country: GB
Production Details: British Movietone News (Production company)
Mitchell, Leslie Scott Falconer1905-10-041985-11-23 (Production cast)
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Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 652 ft; Running time: 7 mins
