Title:SCENES IN ARRAS SHORTLY AFTER ITS LIBERATION BY BRITISH TROOPS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 146-4
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Summary: The 11th Armoured Division despatched some of the prisoners taken during its advance from Amiens to Arras where the local Resistance parades collaborators before the townspeople.
Description: A procession of three-ton lorries from the 29th Armoured Brigade's RASC Company loaded with German prisoners enters Arras. Large crowds gather in the Grande Place to witness the parade of collaborators organised by the local FFI. Armed members of the Resistance escort a group of about twenty male collaborators through the centre of Arras. The camera pans from the spire of the church of St Gery where the bells ring out the French and British National Anthems, to townspeople watching women collaborators being displayed along the Rue St Gery.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Leatherbarrow, RichardPrior to the Second World War Leatherbarrow was a portrait photographer. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Armoured Corps, transferring to the Army Film and Photographic Unit in 1943, when he received training at Pinewood. He was one of the cameramen on Juno Beach during the D-Day Landings. (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Forces Francaises de l'Interieur (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Army Service Corps (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 29 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 11 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
Keywords: law and order, French - enforcement: post-liberation (object name)
law and order, French - punishment: collaborators (object name)
transport, Canadian military - truck: CMP truck (object name)
Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography)
