Title:MATERIAL FOR PRODUCTION 'X' (POSTERS AND BOMB DAMAGE) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ACB 88
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: Various shots of posters ("Sous les plis du drapeau, LVF Combat pour 'Europe'", "Le partie Socialiste s'addresse au Peuple de France. Citoyens... Les chamis sont brisees... " etc; German poster, dated 13 June 1944 outlining procedure for evacuation). Useful footage of bomb damage - a mined church at Valognes, a US Army truck driving through the nearby square, an unspoiled war memorial in the square. ("A la mémoire des Enfants de Montebourg morts pour la France".) Surrounded by devastation, a ruined café.
Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company)
Eades (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: United States Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: buildings, French - commercial: cafe & [wrecked] (object name)
buildings, French - monumental: war memorial (object name)
buildings, French - religious: church & [wrecked] (object name)
destruction, French military - area (object name)
Cherbourg, Manche, France (geography)
Montebourg, Manche, Normandy, France (geography)
Valognes, Manche, France (geography)