Title:PROSECUTION WITNESS LEON VAN DER ESSEN IS CROSS-EXAMINED BY FRANZ EXNER AT THE NUREMBERG TRIBUNAL [Allocated Title]
Film Number:NWT 6
Other titles:NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL COVERAGE, 1946 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: (Mute film of) Professor Leon van der Essen, General Secretary of Louvain University, Belgium, at the witness stand.
Description: Close shots of several people in the courtroom. Shot from top of the courtroom down, facing the prosecution tables, audience and defence counsel; Prosecutor Edgar Faure (France) stands at the speaker's stand. Close up of Faure and Henri Delpech (French prosecution counsel) who is sitting next to him; behind them, General Rudenko sits at the prosecution table of the Soviet Union. Another shot of Edgar Faure and Henri Delpech; also seen are Justice Francis Biddle (USA), and also Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess. Witness, Professor Leon Van der Essen; the shot also shows Lieutenant-Colonel A F Volchkov (Russian Judge). Shots of Chief Justice Lawrence, Francis Biddle and John J Parker. Dr Franz Exner questions the witness.
Alternative Title:NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL COVERAGE, 1946 [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: International War Crimes Tribunal (Production sponsor)
United States Army Signal Corps, 3264th Signal Service Company (Production company)
Stallings (Production individual)
