WELT IM FILM NO 17 [Main Title]

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  • Title: WELT IM FILM NO 17 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: WIF 17
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  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Pétain's trial ends - courtroom scenes and film of many prominent witnesses (including General Doyen, Marcel Paul). II. Rhine made navigable again: US Engineers clear bridge wreckage, using floating crane. III. Delegates at London meeting sign charter setting up War Crimes Tribunal. IV. English aviation industry: Bristol design shop works on wooden mock-ups for large airliner (Brabazon) and new helicopter. V. German POWs return by ship from Norway. VI. Repair work on French railways: (film of wreckage caused by Allied bombing and German demolition) bridge-building and rail-laying; rolling stock salvaged and imported. VII. US ships unload food for Norway. VIII. Prince Bernhard's 34th birthday celebrations in Holland. IX. Timber felling and milling for reconstruction work in Germany (qualified POWs released to help). X. 'Last' battle film from Pacific. Kamikaze attacks on US ships, Nevada (firefighting, dead and wounded, wheels and flag recovered from Japanese plane) and Ticonderoga (very good film of impact, firefighting and wreckage clearing).
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: WIF 17
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-09-07
  • Production Country: Allied Military Government
  • Production Details:
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Bernhard, Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter (person) Bristol Aircraft Corporation (regiment/service) Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (regiment/service) United States Navy, NEVADA (USS) (regiment/service) United States Navy, USS TICONDEROGA, aircraft carrier (1944) (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: law and order, French - judicial process: trial of Marshal Petain (conclusion) (object name) engineering, civil, German: river clearance (object name) engineering, civil, United States: river clearance (object name) equipment, German - engineering: floating crane (object name) ceremonies, Allied - event-related: signing of War Crimes Tribunal Charter (object name) aircraft, British - transport: Bristol Brabazon & [R and D] (object name) industry, British - aircraft: Bristol (object name) prisoners of war, German - return (object name) engineering, civil, French: railway repair (object name) reconstruction, French (object name) society, United States - charity: relief work, Norway (object name) supplies, United States, movement - misc: ship (object name) celebrations, Dutch - event-related: birthday of Prince Bernhard, 34th (object name) agriculture, German - arable: forestry (object name) prisoners of war, German - labour (object name) combat, Japanese - air strike anti-ship [i] (object name) ships, United States naval - : Nevada (object name) ships, United States naval - : Ticonderoga (object name) Germany & Rhine (River) (geography) London, England, UK (geography) France (geography) Norway (geography) Netherlands (geography) Pacific Ocean (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: 1847 ft; Running time: 21 mins
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