Title:SCENES IN PARIS ON THE DAY OF ITS LIBERATION [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 137-1
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: Parisians hitch a ride on one of the British AFPU's team's jeeps with Sergeant Collins and Lieutenant Handford. General de Gaulle accompanied by his naval officer son, visits General Leclerc's temporary headquarters at Montparnasse station shortly after the surrender of the German garrison commander of Paris. Confronted by an angry crowd, three Wehrmacht colonels leave the station separately in French army jeeps to convey news of General von Choltitz's surrender to German strongpoints still holding out in the city.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Acland, A W (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Collins (Sergeant) (person)
Gaulle, Charles André Joseph Marie de (person)
Gaulle, Philippe de (person)
Handford (Lieutenant) (person)
Leclerc, Philippe (person)
Juin, Alphonse P (person)
Forces Francaises de l'Interieur (regiment/service)
Free French Forces, Div, Armoured, French, 2 (regiment/service)
British Army, Army Film and Photographic Unit (regiment/service)
Keywords: prisoners of war (object name)
weapons, British - smallarm: Browning .30 cal machine gun (object name)
transport, United States military - utility: jeep (object name)
celebrations, French - liberation: Paris (object name)
truce (object name)
operations, Allied military - movement: road (object name)
photography and cinematography (object name)
weapons, British - smallarm: MG 42 machine gun (object name)
Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography)
