THE ROAD OF DEATH [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: THE ROAD OF DEATH [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 143
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  • Summary:
  • Description: Various shots of wreckage (left by the German 7th Army) on the roads surrounding Chambois: Panther tanks; armoured cars; French peasant leading his horse and farm cart among the debris; halftracks; damaged crucifix (no cross, only the Christ remaining); headless horse; a (live) horse standing in the midst of wrecked tanks; halftrack; Bren carrier; dead German soldier (eyes and mouth full of crawling maggots); close-up of same; dead horses; wrecked jeep; another dead German (face swollen and black, again crawling with maggots); a little French girl in a white frock standing by a white gate-post, in the wind; more dead horses; a smashed tank lying by a stone pedestal (war memorial, with French flag flying from it); another dead German sprawled near bits of twisted machinery; damaged halftrack.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-08-24
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Baker, L A C (Production individual) Hicks (Sergeant) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: German Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: animals, mammals: horse [casualties] (object name) armour, German: [wrecked] (object name) buildings, French - monumental: war memorial (object name) casualties, German dead - battlefield (object name) destruction, French military - aimed: [+] (object name) transport, German military: [wrecked] (object name) Chambois, Orne, France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 399 ft; Running time: 4 mins
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  • Notes: Summary: very powerful footage, including some neat images (girl in white frock, horse among tanks, crucifix without cross, seemingly self-supporting etc). Shots of dead German soldiers uncompromisingly nauseating. Technical: print is part of a can comprising ACB 143-144 (total length 956 ft).
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 143

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