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MUSSOLINI

221207 22:56:12 - 22:56:54 SI B/W Italy
[Goering & Mussolini Lay Wreath]
Goering salutes as accompanied by wife w/ armfull of flowers; followed by Mussolini & others. Soldiers walking up street w/ very large wreath followed by Goering & Mussoloni saluting to crowd. CU of wreath w/ swastika & iron cross.
Fascist Ceremony;

221130 07:45:47 - 07:54:55 19 SD B/W USA;

Prelude To War Pt. 1 of 6
07:47:16 American troops parade towards camera. Montage of short sequences of Pearl Harbor; London Blitz; Fall of France; China; Czechoslovakia; Norway; Poland; Holland; Greece; Belgium; Albania; Yugoslavia; Russia.
07:49:41 Armament production superimposed over map of USA. Animated graphics showing Free World and Enslaved World.
07:50:50 Sequence re religion: Ten Commandments, Koran, Confucius, Bible. Parchment with Declaration of Independence. Freedom. Statues Washington, Jefferson, Garibaldi, Lafayette, Bolivar, Lincoln. Various paintings and statues depicting fight for freedom. Government buildings. Animated graphics re enslaved world.
07:52:51 Short sequences: Fascists in Rome, Rome demonstrations, soup kitchen, Fascists in trucks; blackshirts; young Mussolini wearing top hat & tails. Germany, inflation, demonstrations; young Hitler cheered. Costumed marchers & military uniforms. Various shots German armies parade. Kaiser reviews troops. German industrialists with Hitler. Riots in Germany very short.

221130 07:54:55 - 08:04:24 19 SD B/W USA; Italy;

Germany; Japan

Prelude To War Pt. 2 of 6
Japan, Emporer Hirohito riding before bowing people. Marching w/ formally dressed military. Banzai & cheering. Hitler w/ massive crowds. Italy & Mussolini w/ crowds. Uniforms of three countries. Animated black dragon from Japan; Germany & Italy animated. Elaborate parading in three countries. Hitler, Mussolini & Hirohito speaking to crowds. Diet, Reichstag & House of Deputies.
07:59:01 Slave labor or military digging canal in Germany. Brownshirts. Italian daggers; rifles & pistols in Germany.
08:00:23 New York Times headlines superimposed over firing guns and assassinations in Germany & Italy.
08:01:18 Tracking shot past cathedral; interior w/ stained glass windows. Woman & man crossing themselves. Stone thru stained glass window & picture of Hitler behind. Alfred Rosenberg speaking. w/ name as subtitle.
08:02:41 Montage of closing of churches in Germany and jailing of religious leaders.
08:03:35 Staged German classroom singing praises to Hitler. Montage of Italian, Japanese & German children saluting.
WWII; Propaganda; Christians; Jewish;

221092 16:19:48 - 16:25:33 1914 - 1918 c SIL B/W

France

[WWI Battle Montage & Armistice Scenes]
Soldiers carrying wounded on stretchers outside field hospital - medics treating wounds.
16:20:47 Long montage battle sequence w/ staged & actuality shots - soldiers charging from trenches - heavy artillery firing - French & Scottish soldiers decorated - tanks firing & advancing - explosions.
16:23:34 Armistice - sign on building ‘L’Armistice a ete signe’ - Paris street scenes - celebrations at front. 16:23:52 - End - NOT FOR SALE - Montage / optical sequence featuring war graves, big guns, crowds, troops, Mussolini, Pope, warships, biplanes, Stalin, Gandhi, Hitler & Nazis etc.

LN 400-294 04:14:50 - 04:16:46 1926 SIL B/W Germany

[Mussolini; Pilsudski;Theodorus Pangulos]
Italian Fascist parade; Mussolini on balcony; saluting . Horseback reviewing troops.
04:15:30 Pilsudski w/ others mouinting reviewing stand.
04:16:03 Greece & rioting; Gen. Theodorus Pangulos names himself dictator, then resigns; is elected President & driven out of office. Crowds
1926; 1920s; Stunts;

220464 10:20:34 - 10:21:46 1930 Si b/w Italy

Mussolini Reviews Mass Callisthenics by Army of 5,000 Boys
Massive stadium with athletes moving in unison. Mussolini waves w/ bearded man talking in his ear.

220932 23:03:40 - 23:04:19 1930 SIL B/W italy

Mussolini Hails Youthful Fascisti Recruits As “Call To Arms” Swells Ranks To 200,000
MS Mussolini on podium, gives Fascist salute. AV Fascist Youth in large Roman piazza. VS young Fascisti in uniform w/ black feathered caps. Fascisti march past watched by Mussolini on podium below ancient sculptures and buildings.

221106 14:59:41 - 15:00:47 1930 SIL B/W Italy

Police Mobilization Features Review By Premier Mussolini
Mussolini [wearing bersaglieri hat?] decorates police officers at outdoor ceremony. Police units march on parade ground, some on horseback.
Fascist Italy.

220441 08:56:05 - 09:03:50 1930s sd B/W China, Shanghai; Mongolia; Japan; Switzerland, Geneva;
Italy; Ethiopia; Austria;

The World At War [Reel 2]
Chinese running & bodies after bombing by Japan. League of Nations ext. Int. debate. Jap ships firing on China & marching into Shanghai to flag raising. Moving into Mongolia. League meeting exit. Japan further into China. Running, ladders up to wall, pilots into dive-bombers, bombing, fires. Chinese troops along Great Wall. (08.59.07) Japan scenics. Baseball diamond & team marching. Japanese Navy, sailors, ships, planes.
Jap tanks down street in large manoeuvre. Troops, emperor reviewing (multi). Italy Fascists marching. Mussolini speaking from balcony. Air Force. Ethiopian forces vs Italian airforce. Explosions. Artillery. Stadium w/ Japanese flags waving; Italians & Japanese military & speakers together. Emperor reviewing. Goosestepping. Hitler into Austria. (good shots)

221195 09:08:32 - 09:11:41 1930s SD B/W China; Mongolia; Japan; Italy; Ethiopia ?; Austria

The World At War [Reel 2 of 7]
US Office of War Information
Chinese running in city; bodies after bombing by Japan. Japanese resigns from League of Nations. Heavy guns firing - moving into Mongolia.
09:09:12 Chinese troops along Great Wall of China. Tanks in military parade in Japan.
09:09:50 Troops reviewed by Emperor Hirohito - vars shots. Italy - Fascists marching. MCU Mussolini speaking from balcony. Artillery fire in Ethiopia ? Stadium w/ Japanese flags waving; Italian & Japanese military & speakers together. Emperor reviewing. Goosestepping. Nazis into Austria 1938.

221346 03:21:42 - 03:26:54 1930s Sd/Sil B/W Italy

[Italian Personalities & Military CUs, Si/Sd]
Soldiers running, marching. Large Mussolini rallys, crowds waving at various locations.
03:22:41 King & Queen of Italy at ceremony for Garibaldi’s widow after her death & body arriving. Mussolini Speaking. Later Mussolini, Dolfuss signing ??. Speaking from balcony & pointing.
03:23:55 Pope Pius XI on balcony, giving blessing. Seated interior.
03:24:23 Various groups of Italians running, marching, artillery & caissons parading.
03:25:23 Cheering crowds & Mussolini speaking, pointing from balcony.
1920s; 1930s; Dictators; Italian Royalty; Pre-WWII;

220572 23:34:27 - 23:40:23 1930s Sd B/W Italy

Italian Military Review
Huge military parade - including barrage balloons, some with gondolas in parade. Cavalry. Placards spelling out Viva Mussolini. Crowds cheering and waving hats. Troops running across field followed by charging cavalry. Military march past, Coliseum in background. Mussolini on horseback reviews. VIPs on horseback including Mussolini ride past group of young Fascists. Dignitaries, guests on podium. American - Marconi ? at microphone says there might be something in Italy which is interesting to Americans, continues saying great pleasure to meet you all and his friend Sarnoff who is standing with him. Says he is in Italy to learn more about radio and watch return of Italy to normality. Good shots Mussolini speaking from balcony, gesticulating. Pope or Cardinal ? speaking. Various short cuts Mussolini speaking.

220665 15:00:18 - 15:09:26 1930s - 1940s Sd B/W

USA England France China Czechoslovakia Norway Poland Holland Greece Belgium Albania Yugoslavia Russia Italy Germany Why We Fight - Prelude to War
American troops parade - Short sequences Pearl Harbor - London Blitz - Fall of France - China - Czechoslovakia - Norway - Poland - Holland - Greece - Belgium - Albania - Yugoslavia - Russia. Armament production superimposed over map of USA. Animated graphics showing Free World and Enslaved World.
Sequence re religion - Ten Commandments - Koran - Confucius - Bible. Parchment with Declaration of Freedom. Statues Washington, Jefferson, Garibaldi, Lafayette, Bolivar, Lincoln. Various paintings and statues depicting fight for freedom. Government buildings. Graphic re enslaved world. Short sequences - Fascists in Rome - demonstrations in Rome - soup kitchen - Fascists in trucks - Young Mussolini wearing Top Hat and Tails. Germany - Inflation, Demonstrations - young Hitler cheered. Various shots German armies parade. Kaiser reviews troops. German industrialists with Hitler. Riots in Germany very short

220440 07:51:07 - 08:00:30 1930s - 1940s Sd B/W

Spain; Germany; Czechoslovakia, Prague; Poland; USSR, Russia Sudetenland; Albania;

The World At War [Reel 3]
German & Italian troops in Spanish civil war fighting. Wounded & dead bodies. Franco banner & reviewing troops. Hirohito - Japanese & goose-stepping troops. Munich pact & signing with Chamberlain and Mussolini, Daladier. Mussolini on balcony at night w/ crowd.
07:53:22 Germans into Sudetenland, cheering people & old woman throwing out flowers. Military band on trucks past camera. Troops through crowds. Nazis into Prague.
07:54:26 Landing in Albania. Hitler at podium calling names of countries in answer to Roosevelt’s (FDR) appeal for peace. Hitler at Berchtesgaden w/ Goering. Good shots in offices at Berchtesgaden in front of huge window. 07:55:55 Ribbentrop in Moscow w/ Molotov.
Newspaper Headlines. Hitler reviewing troops. Polish planes, tanks, & guns reviewed - military parade. Loading German bombs, fuel, shells; take off & over, in formation. POV in air. Bombing of Poland - Flak, bombing, bomb craters, burned planes on ground. Stukkas take off & in flight; dive bombing POV. Railway tracks bombed. Wreckage inspected by Nazis. German battleship firing.

220544 03:16:29 - 03:22:57 1930s - 1941; 1943 SD B/W

INCLUDING:

03:19:11 Hitler & Mussolini meeting, hand shaking, CU smiling. Greece & troops; animated map. Yugoslavian cities bombed - animated map; Greece is occupied - maps. Marching troops.
03:21:19 USSR industry; tanks on trains & off Russian assembly lines & troops are inducted, call up. Drilling, marching. German panzer divisions invade Russia 22Jun41.

220326 05:01:11 - 05:11:07
1930s;1940s Sd b/w Germany, Poland, Austria

Behind Nazi Guns Pt. 1 of 2
Presented by U.S. Navy - Captured film cut to give Americans insight into Nazi war effort.
Narrated by William L. Shire
INCUDING:

05:07:29 Axis meet in Munich, Mussolini, Fascist soldiers. Nazi parade, MCU Hitler speech. Crowd at rally, Nazi salute. Rudolf Hess shouting ‘Sieg Heil”. Swastika flag, cannons fire, panzers & sidecars in countryside in Poland. War plane, paratroopers out. German paratroopers on road wave Nazi flag as tanks past. Hitler in Berlin parade, crowd, CUs.
05:09:10

221143 06:24:53 - 06:25:49 1931 SIL B/W Italy

Fascist Youths In First Public Appearance Since Controversy (1931) Italy
Large filled stadium w/ youths marching with banners around inside & across field. Mussolini w/ bandage on nose and in suit standing. Young women dancing on field in unison; young men doing callisthenics.

221508 04:05:51- 01:07:00 1931 SD B/W Italy;

Frenzied City Hails Duce's Peace Demand On Fascist Birthday
Pan across huge packed crowd filling square w/ flags, waving; on 9th anniversary of Fascist march into Rome.
04:06:18 Mussolini on balcony in MS. First time Mussolini has spoken to any crowd outside of Fascisti. LS; MCU on balcony, gesturing. More of pan of quiet crowd. (Mussolini doesn't speak on camera).

221089 17:31:58 - 17:33:38 1932 SIL B/W Italy

Fascist Demand For Horses Proves Blow To Motor Partisans
Italian Fascist army parades its horses in front of Mussolini at showground in Rome. Heavy plough horses and carriage horses. Arab horses with costumed riders. Exotic carriages and bucking horse. CUs Mussolini.

221092 16:50:05 - 16:51:25 1932 SIL B/W Italy

Mussolini Escorts Body of Brother to Final Resting Place
Coffin carried out of building through heavy drapes & into large crowd - taken in procession through streets, people w/ military flags follow. Top shots coffin arriving in carriage for lying in state [?] - huge crowds.

220310 15:21:09 - 15:21:49 1933 Sd B/W USA Germany

25 Years Ago - Hitler Elected - Jewish Anti Nazi Protests in US
Hitler on podium ranting - Germans giving salute. New York, Jews protest against Nazi brutality. Smiling Mussolini - incomplete

220361 04:12:27 - 04:13:28 1933 Si b/w Italy

Thousands Hail Il Duce as European Nations sign Pact
Mussolini and others signing. Crowds in square cheering.

221542 05:17:27 - 05:18:50 1933 SIL B/W Italy

Thousands Hail Il Duce As European Nations Sign Four-Power Pact
05:17:36 Mussolini talking & posing w/ others.
05:17:50 ?? Seated at desk & signing while others watch. CU signers.
05:18:18 CU Mussolini signing.
05:18:30 MS Mussolini in black shirt waving from balcony. Large crowd in square below. LS of Mussolini on balcony w/ large flag saluting to cheering & waving crowd.
05:18:47 LS from balcony of crowd
NOTE: signed by representatives of Britain, France, Germany & Italy affirming adherence to the Covenant of the League of Nations, the Locarno Treaties, & the Kellogg-Briand Pact.

220622 22:50:44 - 22:51:08 1934 si B/W Italy

[Mussolini Review Fleet]
Fleet with biplanes overhead reviewed by Mussolini. Italian warships. Battleships. Ships turning.

221049 19:51:35 - 19:51:55 1934 SD B/W Austria
Dollfuss w/ Mussolini & Javos of Hungary standing for photographers; signing papers. In casket after assassination and funeral w/ military.

221248 06:04:37 - 06:05:10 1934 SIL B/W Italy

[Italian Horse Jumping Competition]
Large crowd watching riding contest in park w/ large trees. Riders over jumps. Three women & elegant civilian man beside military officer. Mussolini watching from covered box. Elegant man waves while holding cigarette. LS of arena area looking at crowds beyond jumpers. Mussolini presenting large trophy; crowd applauding. Mussolini gives medal to rider.

220316 21:02:42 - 21:05:13 1935 Sd B/W USA Italy

25 Years Ago
Mussolini watches tanks in chemical warfare demonstration, Washington, farmers outside White House in support of Roosevelt’s New Deal. Roosevelt before Congress to defend AAA bill, shots Huey Long who opposed. Father Coughlin addresses rally in Madison Sq. Gardens - NRA board - supreme court voids NRA act. Padlocked poultry farm . William Green President of AFL. LaGuardia joins marching demonstrators.
AV and gvs 25th Indianapolis race - speedway classic (motor racing)

220715 16:00:04 - 16:01:52 1935 SD B/W USA

Smedley Butler Speaks His Mind on U.S. Politics; Senator Bone Warns U.S. Against War Entanglements

INCLUDING:

16:01:52 Senator Bone Warns U.S. Against War Entanglements. Speaking outdoors to camera re situation in Italy. Mussolini ready to plunge Italy into war. Applauds the Neutrality Bill & says he hopes it will keep Americans out of war and “safe on this side of the Atlantic Ocean”.

220757 22:24:25 - 22:33:31 1935 SD B/W USA England India Germany Italy Ethiopia Eritrea Lindbergh Trial. Hauptmann interrogation. Jury. Dramatic zoom on electric chair. CU Hauptmann.
INCLUDING:

22:32:19 Mussolini on balcony
22:32:30 Ethiopian allegiance to Halie Selassie, Addis Ababa. Incl. rioting?
22:32:01 Eritrea & Italy approaches
Intermittent sound

220674 06:00:00 - 06:09:30 1935 - 1940s Sd/Sil B/W Russia / USSR

[Misc. Russia Material 1930s - 1940s]

INCLUDING:

06:04:19 Art Exhibition - people looking at pictures by artists awarded Lenin’s Prize [?] - CUs vars satirical anti-Nazi political cartoons inc. Hitler & Mussolini. Children looking round Art Exhibition. [Sd - Russian narr].
06:06:11

221576 13:23:42 - 13:34:05 1935; 1936; 1930s; Sd/Sil B/W

Ethiopia; Italy;

[Advancing Italian Troops Thru Ethiopia]
INCLUDING:

13:33:44 Sd. Italian Palace (?) w/ officers saluting Mussolini arrival; Black Shirts salute & seated at large table.

220295 16:14:18 - 16:14:56 1936 Si B/W Italy

Roman Youngsters Celebrate 21st War Anniversary - Mussolini reviews fascist youth commemmorating WWI entrance.
Crowds - Mussolini on horseback - procession of children - top shot crowds running into square - Mussolini in military uniform on balcony.

220647 11:12:32 - 11:14:52 1936 Si b/w Italy

[Italian Planes & Mussolini]
Many bi-planes fly-over in close formation. High angle pan of many lines of planes on field with people walking about. Mussolini & others viewing with binoculars as still photographers seen taking pictures.

220589 16:46:35 - 16:48:42 1936 c Si b/w Italy

[Italy - Slum Clearance]
Crowd of men including Mussolini on rooftop with pickaxes - shots over slum areas of Rome with St Peter’s Cathedral in background. Demolition. Other VIPs on roof look worried as Mussolini vigorously uses pick axe. More rooftop shots. Demolition workers using pick axes for camera.

221213 10:25:48 - 10:34:04 1937 SD B/W Germany; Sudetenland; Czechoslovakia;

Nazi Plan, The R14 of ?
Title: Tenth Party Congress 5-12 September 1938 Sd.

INCLUDING:

10:31:44 Si. Title: Munich Pact 29 September 1938. Exterior; Interior & looking at documents. Chamberlain walking up stairs. Mussolini, Goering, Daladier & others present. Signing.
10:32:53 Title: Occupation of the Sudetenland 01October 1938. Si/Sd. Headlines. Raising of gate & troops into Sudentland, old people & girls greeting w/ flowers. Hitler riding thru streets. Naziis on podium, man speaking as Hitler listens. Pan over crowds.

221039 07:08:39 - 07:20:24 1937 c SIL B/W GERMANY

Nazi Germany [Pre-War Germany - Agriculture - Mussolini in Berlin]
Pre-War Germany - woman hanging tobacco to dry outside farm building [brief]. Door w/ signs ‘Dr. med. E. Lobstein prakt. Arzt.’ and ‘Arischer Arzt’. Man testing soil? Women picking grapes; VS dumping, pressing, wagons, barrels, workers eat lunch in field. Roadside sign for vineyard w/ carving - ‘Ruppertsberg’. Tobacco being tied in farm yard.
07:14:39 Castle with reflection in lake / moat. Berlin? street scene with people waiting - traffic, street lined w/ Nazi and Italian banners and columns w/ Nazi eagles and swastikas on top. Visit of Mussolini, Autumn 1937? People standing on cars waiting.
07:16:30 Mussolini in motorcade L-R then R-L. Young boy on father’s shoulders; people hold up mirrors; people w/ cameras in crowd. Policemen among crowd; bus w/ Persil advertisement past. Crowd rushes into road, police draw cordon across road.
07:18:32 Marching troops and motorcade past Brandenburg Gate. Normal traffic resumes. More shots of Mussolini in open-top car; MCU cars past w/ Nazi and Italian officers. Hitler not seen?
Very good shots and picture quality.

220668 19:07:30 - 19:19:36 1937-1939 SD B/W USA China Germany Japan Albania Poland

War Comes To America - Compilation film. Reel 4
INCLUDING:
19:10:36 Montage shots rearming of Germany. Japanese banknotes - armament and shipbuilding in Japan. Japanese and German military superimposed. Italy - Mussolini at Fascist parade. Hitler Salutes. Japanese Emperor Hirohito on white horse. Poster of three leaders.
19:12:07

220194 01:32:44 - 01:40:20 1938 si B/W Germany France England Italy

Munich Pact; Nazi meeting, int. Ext. Night & banners; crowds listening to loud speakers; people in various situations listen to radios. Crowd in hall salutes. Troops & equipment at Nuremberg. Ships at sea. German sub. Biplane flyover. Chamberlain & others at airport shake hands & waves. Boards plane for Germany. Take off. Sandbagged building in England or France. People lined up outside French building. Men with guns (superimposed title Peace or War). Mussolini w/ Hitler in Italy reviewing troops, kids wave Nazi flags. Standing in Motorcade thru crowds. Daladier w/ Nazi soldiers. Chamberlain walking past German troops doffs hat. Germans waving to Chamberlain's motorcade. Into meeting. Int. signing of pact. Ext. of Mrs Chamberlain leaving house. Return off plane

220361 05:02:41 - 05:08:49 1938 Si b/w England Germany France

[Pre-WII - Chamberlain to Munich & Back, all exteriors]
Sports Palace in Berlin ext w/ people listening in various situations. German fleet. Planes in swastika & formation (brief). Various VIPs at airport. Chamberlain shaking hands. Chamberlain into plane - take off. London sandbagged by sailors. French w/ rifles walking along road. Queue outside bank in Paris - frenchman taking notes from posters. French citizens on streets some carrying guns. French call up - crowds of men.
05:06:03 Mussolini greeted by Hitler & POV past cheering crowds. Flags. Hitler and Mussolini in open top car through waving crowds. Chamberlain past troops, in car, into bldg. Hitler in.
05:06:45 French Flag and German Swastika waving in breeze. Daladier at airport - inspects troops.
05:06:57 Chamberlain - plane arriving. Chamberlain with Hitler and Ribbentrop and other officers inspects troops. Union Jack flying. Crowds waving from airport buildings which have Swastika banners. Chamberlain and Ribbentrop in car. Party entering building Mussolini in. Signing of Munich Pact
05:08:29 Crowd outside 10 Downing St. & Mrs Chamberlain out.

220572 23:12:46 - 23:13:54 1938 Si B/W Germany

Munich Pact -- Arrival & Signing
Hitler & Goering in open car. Several groups into building. Many people at signing with Chamberlain Mussolini & others signing, shaking hands. Solemn. Munich Pact

220650 14:00:08 - 14:06:19 1938 Sd B/W England Germany France

[Pre-WII - Chamberlain to Munich & Back, all exteriors] (Munich Pact)
Chamberlain off plane in rain greeted by Halifax. His speech over & sync to large crowd.
Into plane & leaving, people wave. shaking hands. Returning plane landing. Shaking hands. Plane off. 14:01:50 Sports Palace in Berlin w/ Hitler speaking to cheers inside; ext w/ people listening in various situations. German fleet. Planes in swastika & formation (brief).
14:02:43 England - crowds VIPs at airport. Air Raid precautions - sandbagged by sailors. French w/ rifles walking along road. Sign Reservistes
14:03:43 Mussolini greeted by Hitler & POV past cheering crowds in open top car . Flags. Chamberlain past troops, in car with Ribbentrop, into bldg. Hitler in. Daladier out of car & in. Mussolini in.
14:05:17 London - Crowd outside 10 Downing St. & Mrs Chamberlain out. Chamberlain car through crowd. Chamberlain with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on balcony at Buckingham palace. (Night)

220770 04:06:36 - 04:07:12 1938 SIL B/W Italy

[Mussolini sees Italians leave Naples to colonise Libya]
Italian families embark on ship. People waving handkerchiefs. Ships sail off. Mussolini salutes.

221195 09:11:41 - 09:18:57 1938 - 1939 SD B/W Spain; Japan; Italy; Germany; Czechoslovakia; Poland

The World At War [Reel 3 of 7]
US Office of War Information
German & Italian troops in Spanish Civil War fighting. Ruined buildings. Wounded & dead bodies. Franco banner & reviewing troops. Hirohito - Japanese & goose-stepping troops. Munich Pact signing with Chamberlain, Mussolini, Daladier, Hitler, Goering. Night shot crowd in Rome in square w/ Vittorio Emmanuel memorial in BG.
09:13:29 Germans into Sudetenland, cheering people & old woman throwing flowers. Military band on trucks past camera. Troops through crowds. Nazis into Prague. Hitler at podium calling names of countries in answer to Roosevelt’s (FDR) appeal for peace.
09:14:56 Hitler at Berchtesgaden w/ Goering. Newspaper headlines. Polish planes, tanks, & guns reviewed - military parade. Loading German bombs, fuel, shells; bombers take off & over, in formation. Air to air shots. Bombing of Poland - flak, bombing, bomb craters, burned planes on ground. Stukas take off & in flight; dive bombing POV. Railway tracks bombed. Wreckage inspected by Nazis. German battleship firing.

220916 23:09:48 - 23:17:46 1938 - 1940 sd B/W Japan China Belgium Italy

Toa No Reimei - Promotional Documentary explains the peaceful purpose of Japanese military involvement in China.
23:11:00 Japanese troops on horseback - street scenes in China.
23:12:41 Battle of Shanghai - burning buildings - house to house fighting - explosions - destroyed buildings. Troops in trench drinking from bottle. smoke screens - battle scenes. Victorious Japanese troops.
23:16:25 Delegates arriving for Nine Power conference in Brussels including Anthony Eden. Japanese delegates wearing top hats. Japanese declare they will continue to fight Chinese aggression. Japanese, German and Italian delegates meet in Rome for the signing of the Anti-Comintern Agreement. Shot Mussolini.

220303 05:00:13 - 05:11:23 1938 - 1960s Sd B/W USA Vietnam Germany

Why Vietnam Part One
President Johnson LBJ at microphone talking about a letter from a woman in the Mid West asking Why Vietnam ? Montage vietnam war shots.

INCLUDING:
05:01:17 Munich 1938 - Hitler in open top car - Chamberlain arrives - Munich pact - Chamberlain speaking re Peace. Montage shots - bomb damaged buildings - Mussolini - Ethiopia - Haile Selassie at League of Nations - Anschluss - Korean war.
05:03:16

220518 12:59:15 - 13:03:59 1938 ? Si B/W Italy

Hitler Visits Mussolini.
Crowds on platform as Mussolini and other officer arrive
Fascists on RR platform as train arrives. Italian fascist troops at attention . Train arrives. Much scurrying about as Hitler arrives and marches quickly through station with entourage. Italian troops at attention Hitler and entourage pass ( slightly soft focus ) . Top shot motorcade. Interior Various shots Hitler, Mussolini, Ribbentrop having conversations in small groups. Top shot crowds gathered, waving and cheering looking up towards balcony. Hitler and Muss. on balcony - crowds.

220439 06:21:17 - 06:25:26 1939 Si B/W Italy

Hitler Arrives in Rome.
Mussolini and King Victor Emanuel at railroad station in Rome. Train Arriving. Hitler getting off. Streets decorated with Italian and Swastika flags. Hitler, Mussolini, King and Queen going down steps. Reviewing Italian troops. Grandstand with Hitler, Mussolini and King and Queen at review. Italian Black Shirts standing at attention. Night shots of crowd cheering. Italian army manoeuvres with guns, tanks and infantry. Troops wearing gas masks. Artillery being fired.

220439 06:25:27 - 06:26:55 1939 Si B/W Italy

Italian crowd cheering, Mussolini inspecting Fascists. Mussolini dedicating flags, Foreign attaches on grandstand. Massive crowd giving fascist salute.

220769 03:07:41 - 03:08:08 1939 SIL B/W Italy

[70,000 Fascist Women Parade]
Huge parade in Rome, Italy. Women in military uniform, in regional costume. Huge crowd cheering. Mussolini on balcony

221195 09:25:16 - 09:34:17 1939 - 1940 SD B/W Belgium; France; Italy; England

The World At War [Reels 5 & 6 of 7]
US Office of War Information
INCLUDING:
09:30:37 Italy enters war 10Jun40 - Mussolini on balcony above huge crowd. Road sign Paris & Soissons. Arc de Triomphe - pan down to Nazi troops marching through Paris. Fall of Maginot Line - railroad heavy guns fired.
09:31:32

220655 21:43:19 - 21:51:43 1939 - 1941 SD B/W USA England Germany Burma Russia

War Comes To America - Compilation film. R6
INCLUDING:

21:44:06 27Sep40 - Pact of Berlin or Tri-partite pact signed by Germany, Japan and Italy. Von Ribbentrop signs for Germany - Ciano for Italy and Kurusu for Japan.
21:44:54 Celebrations in Tokyo - cheers of crowds. Rome - Mussolini addresses cheering crowd from balcony. Berlin - Crowd cheer Hitler and Japanese.
21:45:20

200555 02:10:45 - 02:18:25 1939 - 1945 SD B/W USA England Austria Poland France Germany

Germany Gives Up.
Truman at desk speaks announcing German surrender.
Crowds in streets cheering; Wall street & ticker-tape. Packed Times Square & people waving flags.
02:12:10: Heavy devastation in Europe. Bodies; German prisoners.
02:12:38: Hitler & marching Nazis in various situations. Goose-stepping. Siegfried Line tank traps. Hitler with Mussolini and Goering at treaty signing. Hitler & troops into Austria?? Anschluss.
Hitler speaking to huge crowd. Hitler at planning meeting in railway carriage.
02:13:46: POV along road of ruined equipment. Germans into Poland. Field of Polish prisoners. Women queue for food.
02:14:03: Hitler and Goering at military march past - goose-step. Map
02:14:24: Dunkirk, building burning, classic shot Dunkirk landings.
02:14:33 Hitler at French surrender in railway carriage at Compiegne.
German bombers. Blitz, London in flames, classic shot with crucifix.
02:14:55: Roosevelt signing lease lend bill. Lend-lease act. England & freight trains of supplies.
Headlines, Japan at War with US.
02:15:23: Blacks moving boxes from ships. Planes & supplies for D-Day. D-Day montage & beachhead; Dead German by roadside.
02:15:56: Tanks into Paris; crowds & aerials over Arc de Triomphe. Heavy bombing raids, strafing airfield & RR w/ explosions. Artillery firing Film damage at 13:16:28 Narrations runs out of synch from here on.
02:16:56: GIs crossing Rhine. Dead in concentration camps. Germans running to surrender; young boy crying. Swastika burning.
Picture ends 02:17:51 Sound runs to 02:18:25.

220790 07:46:31 - 07:47:58 1939 ? 1937 ? Sd b/w

Germany

[Mussolini & Hitler Confer in Berlin]
Mussolini & Hitler into room followed by others. Generals talking. Hitler & Mussolini walking & talking. Mussolini & Keitel & Graziani review troops in field. Officers talking, past troops aiming rifle. Soldiers wave as they leave.
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220295 16:37:33 - 16:38:05 1940 si B/W Italy On the War Front - Italy - Mussolini presents medals to heroes of the Spanish Civil War.
Outdoor ceremony - Mussolini on dias presents medal - kisses. Military march past (goose stepping).

221247 05:03:34 - 05:12:51 1940 SD B/W Germany;

[Panzer tanks advancing and firing; Hitler & staff; Mussolini] (1940)
POV from Panzers thru countryside & parked in fields, farmhouses visible. Troops crouched bhind tanks. Explosions in background. Germans firing artillery. Tanks move forward towards & past camera. Multiple views. Past destroyed French artillery. Destroyed tanks & dead.
05:06:16 Searching French prisoners & marching along road. Burning tank. Tank out of field; crews talking & drinking, smoking, laughing, eating. German troops marching. Hitler with officers inc. Jodl, von Brauchitsch, Keitl inside Fuehrerhauptquartier [Fuhrer HQ].
05:08:40 Hitler & Goering in garden of the Fuhrer HQ; walking thru trees, talking. Happy Hitler w/ other officers. Hitler signs invitation for Mussolini to come to Munich & does little dance before shaking hands & walking off. Hitler greets wounded. Troops listen to announcement about Petain and the French capitulation & Mussolini. Troops cheer.
05:10:46 POV from train thru Munich & view from window. Shots from Hitler's train (another) as he salutes, arriving Munich & greeted. Mussolini arrives.

221366 04:39:09- 04:51:59 1940 SD B/W Germany; France [WWII: Hitler & Mussolini; Germany Into Paris; Compiegne Surrender, 22Jun40]
18Jun40 Hitler & Mussolini standing in open top limousine around Munich square thru cheering crowds. MCU people, soldiers; bothon balcony; saluting throngs, kids & adults. MCUs; CU Mussolini & Hitler, turn & go inside. Smiling Il Duce & Hitler w/ large painting on wall behind Hitler. CU SS soldier at attention outside. Hitler & Mussolini leaving, crowds cheering. Heinrich Hoffman taking pictures. GOOD.
04:41:00 ca14Jun40 Paris, Pan from statue across building front & looking thru base of Arc de Triomphe w/ Germans saluting. People watch, CU flame. German officer shaking hands w/ Nazi soldiers & presents medals. Pan over line of saluting soldiers at attention, tilt up statue. German troops parading on Avenue Foch, goosestepping past saluting officer on horseback. Horsemen & artillery. Few French watching; mostly German soldiers w/ brass playing.
04:44:19

221131 09:25:52 - 09:34:25 1940 1942 SD B/W USA; Germany; Italy; Japan Prelude to War (1943) Reel 2 Pt 1 of 3
Why We Fight series Narrated by Walter Huston
INCLUDING:

09:29:32 Nazi marching band, smiling Hitler, shots Goering, Mussolini. Montage German, Japanese & Italian crowds. Hitler makes speech very animated some SOF. CU Hess, Goering, Goebbels, DietrichTodt,Reinhardt, Darre, Ley (w/ titles over). Montage crowds Banzai, Heil Hitler, young Italian Fascists saluting.
09:31:30 1940 Hitler with Kurusu, Japanese Ambassador at time of Pearl Harbor, Von Ribbentrop signs Tripartite pact. Animated maps showing Italian, Japanese and German expansion plans.

221131 09:34:25 - 09:43:03 1940 1942 SD B/W USA: Germany: Italy; Japan;
Manchuria

Prelude to War (1943) Reel 2 Pt 2 of 3
Why We Fight series Narrated by Walter Huston
INCLUDING:

09:36:56 CU Mussolini, Hitler, German army. Graphic showing German military budget. Huge Nazi military parade w/ tanks & troops, Luftwaffe flyover, more parade, shipyard. American newspaper headlines re cost of war. Japanese military parade. Animated map war clouds over Manchuria, dagger pierces map, date Sept. 18th 1931. Map shows Japanese incursion into Manchuria. Mukden incident, CU destroyed railway track, Japanese attack Manchuria at Mukden. Japanese army cross border from Korea, animated map. Puppet ruler Pu Yi,
09:40:34 Henry Stimson denounces Japanese aggression, League of Nations team including Lord Lytton & Frank McCoy go to Manchuria. Lord Lytton delivers report denouncing Japan’s seizure of Manchuria. Brief Ext. League of Nations, interiors League censures Japan as aggressor nation. Japanese delegate speaks (SOF) & Japan leave the League. Brief montage America, England, France re not convinced enough to go to war over Manchuria.

221131 09:43:03 - 09:51:43 1940 1942 SD B/W China; Italy; Abyssinia; Ethiopia; Egypt

Prelude to War (1943) Reel 2 Pt 3 of 3
Why We Fight series Narrator Walter Huston
INCLUDING:

09:45:57 CU Mussolini, crowds outside Coliseum. Mussolini ranting from balcony. Map showing Ethiopia.
09:46:20 Ethiopia, bare foot troops, Haile Selassie boarding only Ethiopian aircraft. AV Italian airforce planes massed on ground. Italian military might, troops using flamethrowers, Italian naval ships. Animated map re Wal Wal in Ethiopia. Italian army on the move, ships carry troops thru Suez canal.
09:47:14 Haile Selassie appears at League of Nations.
09:47:47 Ethiopia, native troops gather & pledge allegiance to Selassie w/ swords. Italian artillery, bombs dropped, dead & wounded Ethiopians. Italy conquers Ethiopia. Roosevelt denounces Italian action.
09:49:25 Map & calendar & clock graphics show world transport. Huts burning. Munich Pact meets, Mussolini w/ Hitler & Goering. MCU Hitler. Map. Montage previous shots from film. Two globes combine.

220591 18:51:26 - 18:52:33
1940s Si B/W Italy

Hitler visits Italian Navy & Mussolini
Hitler boards Italian warship - greeted by Mussolini. Aerial shot as Italian fleet fire salute. Bombing of ship w/ depth charges - Hitler and Mussolini watching. Italian troops parade down street part of Coliseum in background.

220594 03:21:19 - 03:22:50 1940s Si B/W Germany Switzerland England

Crisis - Europe Trembles at Hitler’s Defi ?
Hitler in auditorium speaking from platform / dais ( mos ) good gestures. Map of Europe. Library shots Hitler with Mussolini - League of Nations meeting with Eden and Litvinof. Chamberlain in top hat in Downing street. Eden into No. 10 - Hitler reviews army - mass troops on field march past

220676 09:42:24 - 09:50:44 1940s Sd/Sil B/W Russia; Ukraine / USSR; Germany; Japan; France; England

[Misc. Russian Newsreel Extracts]
Trial of SRs (Soviet revolutionaries) - CUs men listen w/ headphones, hands over eyes [Si.]
09:42:58 Tsarist troops - Orthodox priests conduct outdoor blessing [?]
09:44:04 WWII sequences [English narr.] - Russian fighting against Japan - tank advance - rockets fired - POWs. Zhukov signing Japan’s surrender document. Shellshocked German? soldier - explosions. Grieving Russian woman
09:44:15 Babi Yar - ravine near Kiev where Jews massacred by Nazis Sep41 - bodies laid out in curved rows - CU skull. Khruschev given key to city.
09:44:45 Aerials ruins of Stalingrad - Soviet victory celebrations among ruins - Krushchev kisses army general & delivers victory speech [MOS].
09:46:43 Nuremberg trial - CUs Goering leaning on one hand listening - Keitel - Jodl - Rosenberg, scratching nose and biting fingernails - Ribbentrop - Frank - CU Frank’s diary - Schirach - Hess, wiping brow - extract Hess making speech.
09:48:16 Fall of Berlin - Russian sign for Berlin. Brief shot Berlin’s Commandant Gen. Weidling - Red Army firing rockets in street - Soviet woman soldier handing out bread to Germans; soldier helping old man - VO says Red Army “saved all of Germany from the yoke of despised fascism”. Names on columns of Russian soldiers - graffiti. Liberated peoples, waves and cheers - pro-Soviet narration.
09:49:49 Munich Pact - Daladier and Chamberlain [VO “perpetrators of the betrayal”] - Mussolini & others signing - Mussolini, Hitler & Goering. Daladier & Chamberlain return home.

221207 22:35:55 - 22:38:55 1940s SD B/W italy

[Catholic VIP speaking; Arrival; Mussolini Speaking]
Cardinal at microphone speaking (SOF) in English at National Eucharistic Congress on behalf of Pope Pius XII.
22:36:53 Heavy set Catholic VIP w/ glasses helped off train. In car w/ previous Cardinal. 1940s. Church on hilltop w/ crowd around. Leads procession.
22:37:24 LS from rooftop thru banners over Square filled w/ crowd. Mussolini in army uniform w/ medals on stone balcony like prow of ship, speaking (SOF) in front of microphones. Soldiers & others in huge crowd, cheering, waving & a few fascist salutes.

221207 22:38:58 - 22:40:35 1940s SD/SI B/W italy

[Mussolini Visits Vatican City]
Car accompanied w/ Swiss Guards on horseback thru Vatican Square. Goering or Mussolini in elaborate Admiral’s uniform out w/ another. Gives Nazi salute.
22:39:41 Mussolini surrounded by heavyset men in brocade walking into St. Peters. Inside down steps w/ large statue of man on horse behind.
22:40:08 Car out accompanied by mounted Swiss Guards (?). Street lined w/ crowds & soldiers. Crowd in St. Peter’s Square.

221359 14:08:34 - 14:14:43 1940s; 1942; B/W Germany; USSR; Russia

[German, Russians, English & Americans Planning WWII - Manufacturing & Shipping Armaments]
Hitler w/ German officers & Mussolini looking at map on table. 4-motor Russian bomber landing, Molotov in leather flying cap, others off; w/ British walking past troops.
14:09:07

NOTE: narration says end of May 1942 for events.

220287 09:27:30 - 09:29:58 1941 sd B/W Rumania Romania North Africa

WWII Briefing for Ploesti Bombing
Training for Ploesti. Planes over oil derricks & refineries. Germans at oil fields. Rommel looking at map & mass of POWs walking across desert. German fighter planes low. Mussolini riding on small cart on rails in N. Africa. Various bombers taking off. FDR speech 'Nazis & Fascists are going to get it.' Oil refineries on fire

220443 10:38:03 - 10:47:28 1941 Sd B/W USA Japan Germany

War on the Seas
Japanese titles - December 7th 1941 - Japanese planes taking off from aircraft carrier. Japanese planes in flight formation. Aerial Views Pearl Harbor - bombs dropping. Ships burning. Japanese aerial photographs of destruction at Pearl Harbor. Aftermath of attack - wrecked aircraft. Roosevelt (FDR) infamy speech over shots of destruction. Frogman - salvage work - sunken ships. Tojo and his ministers in Tokyo. Animated map showing Japanese plans for invasion of Pacific Islands. Berchtesgaden - planning meeting with Hitler and Mussolini. Animated map showing German plans for Europe and Asia and how convoy supply lines must be cut. German submarine pens in Norway. American navy personnel on small civilian boats off coast of America forming Corsair defence fleet. Dropping depth charge off back of small boat - explosion in water. Dirigible - LTA - Balloon - US Navy blimp protecting convoys off US coast. Air shot merchant ship. Interior blimp - crew.
10.45.51 Island Air base - Seaplane takes off on air patrol - flies over tanker. Interior aircraft. Air to air shot Naval aircraft. Air shot German submarine on surface. Interior German submarine as alarm sounded - dive. Sea Plane drops depth charges.

221193 07:54:54 - 08:05:19 1941 SD B/W Denmark; Norway; Netherlands - Holland; Spain; Italy; Romania; Slovakia; Hungary; Finland

Die Deutsche Wochenschau [No.565 Jul41 - Reel 1]
INCLUDING:

07:56:54 Italy / Verona - Mussolini reviews troops leaving for the front; military parade past podium, crowds wave Italian flags, troops in trucks.
07:57:35

221224 07:06:58 - 07:15:30 1941 SD B/W France; Belgium; germany; Italy; Romania; Russia - USSR

Die Deutsche Wochenschau [No.571 Aug41] Segments
INCLUDING:

07:08:03 Rome - Mussolini reviews Italian troops going to fight at the Eastern Front.
07:08:20 First Italian troops at the front - southern part of the Eastern Front, riding in trucks pulling guns.
07:08:42

221251 13:36:11 - 13:46:47 1941 SD B/W UK; Canada; USA;
England North Africa

The Fight For Liberty: The Second Year Of The War Pt 2 of 4
INCLUDING:

13:42:03 Sept. 1940 Mussolini launches invasion of Egypt. Aerial over village. Bombing, tanks & destroyed buildings. Mussolini at Bremer Pass to meet Hitler, greeting on RR platform. Troops at attention. Italians into Greece. Athens & marching troops. Soldiers passing stones by hand. Italian navy w/ large ships. British ships w/ planes taking off & chasing Italians. Sunken Italian ships. Night naval battle.
13:44:36

220634 12:00:00 - 12:08:27 1941 ? SD B/W USA
Spirit of Nobel (El Espiritu de Nobel) [Reel 1 of 2]
Includes many atomic scientists who left Germany when Hitler came to power.
Dramatic reconstruction - Alfred Nobel with invention - stick of dynamite. Explosions as dynamite used for progress to create railway tunnels, clear dams - cars driving through tunnel. Actor playing Nobel superimposed over images of WWII.
12:01:55 CU Nobel prize medal. Nobel ceremony 1938 - Pearl Buck receives Nobel prize for literature. CU Hitler gesticulating during speech - Goering - Rosenberg - Julius Streicher - Goebbels -
Reconstruction ? Nazis burning books, identity parade. Hitler speaking, Mussolini with crowds - torchlight parade. Prisoners of the Nazis. Refugees and DPs on road.
12:04:10

X221323 02:23:58 - 02:37:17 1941ca SIL COL RUSSIA; USSR; Germany; Poland;

[Visit Of Hitler And Mussolini To Russian Front, ca 26Aug41?]
Hitler reviewing troops, chats w/ German wounded soldier & Wehrmacht officers on airfield as photographers cluster around. Hitler greets military nurses, airplane visible behind. Hitler walkabout w/ camera following.
02:25:37 Nurses on grass outside German twin-engine military plane w/ hospital markings.
02:25:43 Extreme CU Mussolini in cockpit of aircraft, clouds beyond. Engine & passing broken clouds. 02:26:38 Nurse & German officer on airfield as wounded German troops loaded onto tri-motor ambulance plane& walk back to plane.
02:27:03 Soviet POW’s marched past on air base.
02:27:12 Ext. wrecked large building & pan across cleaned up square w/ horse wagons, town behind.Smolensk (?). Military trucks & cars thru. Wreckage seen.
02:27:40 Row of tri-motor military planes w/ German officer walking up to camera. Mechanics behind.
02:27:51 Camouflaged tent barracks & troops; military convoy arriving w/ officers, Hitler & Mussolini (?) out of first open car. VIP officers walking, talking. Mussolini smiling & talking w/ German officers. Walking w/ Hitler to mess area of outdoor tables; they sit at dining table under canvas tarp w/ photographers taking pictures. Adm. Karl Doenitz at another table w/ VIP officers.
02:30:00 Air Force officers & others arrive; Doenitz standing.
02:30:15 Soldiers serving up dishes for VIPs. People at tables eating.
02:31:06 Officers standing, talking, joking & smoking cigars
02:31:53 Wounded soldier unloaded from ambulance & walk to plane; boarding.
02:32:32 Hitler & Mussolini out of car, to plane. Officers shaking their hands, saluting. Much walking & saluting & back to plane & board (all seen from plane level). Some almost as though repeating for camera, or on leaving plane at next stop. Walk to large open car, climb in & drive away from hanger. Motorcade of similar ones follows. Soldiers run to get another view.
02:35:04 Hitler & Mussolini arrive by car at hanger & chat w/ German officers including von Ribbentrop & possibly Keitel & von Brauschtsch; German officers moving around in foreground.
02:36:30 Hitler, Mussolini & four others sit at wooden table outside hanger. German officers acting panic-stricken in foreground.
02:36:54 German officers in foreground, several twin-engine ambulance planes in rear. Another view of officers lunch w/ soldiers watching from distance.

220691 03:00:08 - 03:09:57 1943 SD B/W Russia Morocco Tunisia
Italy Sicily England Malta

The War 1941 - 1944 R5
INCLUDING:

03:04:43 On to Fortress Europe - July 10th 1943 Allied troops landing on beaches of Sicily. Paratroop drop. Mussolini. 3rd Sept. Allied invasion of Italy. Italian fleet surrender to Gen. Eisenhower at Malta. Good shots battleships.
03:05:57 Naples - celebrations as Allies enter city.
03:06:15

220527 23:04:37 - 23:06:48 1943 SIL b/w Italy

Mussolini Finished - Obit
Mussolini speaking before large crowd (MOS). Burning buildings. Mussolini with Hitler. Fascist youth in Rome. Mussolini in black uniform. Tanks & troops in N. Africa. Crowds - Mussolini along in open top car.

220527 23:11:46 - 23:13:02 1943 SIL b/w Italy
USA

Italy Quits
CU Eisenhower saluting. Montage Italian military and airforce. CU Mussolini. Italian Prisoners of War waving to camera. Civilians throwing stones at painting of Mussolini. Mussolini through streets in open top car surrounded by crowds. Shot from balcony of cheering crowds.
23:12:42 Newspaper headlines in New York World Telegram “ Italy Surrenders”. Papers off press. Italian Americans celebrating.

221193 08:16:22 - 08:23:56 1943 SD B/W Italy; Germany INCLUDING:

08:19:34 12Sep43 SS paratroop commando unit en route to rescue Mussolini from mountain stronghold in Abruzzo region. Troops briefed by officer. Shots of hotel on Campo Imperatore plateau of Gran Sasso mountain [Apennines], where Mussolini held by Italian government after being deposed. Mussolini in black coat & hat poses w/ rescuers; soldier sends message over radio [out of rack briefly]; PoV from cable car. Mussolini into light aircraft w/ SS Col. Otto Skorzeny - waved off by rescuers.
08:22:01 14Sep43 Mussolini out of Junkers Ju-52 transport plane on airfield at Fuhrer HQ Wolfsschanze or Wolf’s Lair in East Prussia, greeted by Hitler & son Vittorio; into Mercedes limousine. Mussolini out of car, shakes hands w/ von Ribbentrop; into building w/ Hitler. Mussolini back to airfield & waved off by Hitler - Ju-52 plane bound for Italy. Music after picture.

221345 01:17:39 - 01:27:53 1943 SD B/W France; INCLUDING:

01:19:44 Titles: Sabotage, Fifth Column, Strikes, Riots. French troops eating inside Maginot Line fortification; looking from Maginot Line. Banners put up by Germans; sending balloons across; broadcasting propaganda to the French. Soldiers looking thru binoculars. Mussolini & Goering & Hitler. Map of possible attack routes from Germany. French defensives shown.
01:22:06

221345 01:47:24 - 01:56:59 1943 SD B/W France; INCLUDING:
01:50:47 Mussolini w/ other officers. Italians move into France on motorcycle & foot. Mussolini reviewing young troops. French government leaders w/ Lavalle, Petain & others. Hitler does his happy jig. Goes to railroad coach to sign the agreement of surrender w/ Germany. Headlines. French prisoners of war to Germany marched. Civilians w/ suitcases . Slave labor building dikes. French children crying. Burial service for executed hostages. Hitler touring Paris.
01:54:37 People in street of Paris listening to terms of surrender. French listening, crying. French soldiers boarding ships for North Africa. De Gaulle reviewing & saluting. Free French Army. De Gaulle & Roosevelt & Churchill meeting at Casablanca. Marching troops w/ titles over. The End.

221208 00:39:19 - 00:50:40 1943; 1944; 1945; SD B/W

Italy; Germany;

War Department Report R1 of 4
Intertitles, film’s title. Narrated by Walter Huston
00:40:23 12Sep43 Isolated mountain area in Italy, German paratroopers free Mussolini, soldiers run across the fields, CU ext. jail building, where Gestapo men succeeded in their break in to release smiling Mussolini w/ German soldiers, Mussolini escorted to aircraft, smiling soldiers wave him off, LS plane in the air taking Mussolini to Hitler's headquarters.
00:41:55 Plane land, Mussolini exits & greeted by Hitler & Mussolini’s son Vittorio. Hitler & Mussolini into car. CU car w/ fascist sign attached to front, car drives off, soldiers run up to it & open the door. Hitler & Mussolini greeted by Foreign Minister Ribbentrop. Hitler & Mussolini walk in & out of the conference building as it was the briefest access conference on record. Officials drive back to the airfield, Mussolini shakes hands w/ Hitler & others and boards plane.
00:43:31

220471 08:23:09 - 08:24:25 1944 SD B/W Germany
Russia? USSR? (Eastern Front) Is Hitler Still Alive?
Wreckage after 20Jul44 assassination attempt on Hitler by German generals. Hitler welcoming fallen Mussolini off train after failed assassination - shakes hand with left hand. Hitler and Mussolini in forest. Hitler waves goodbye to Mussolini on train.
08:24:13 Eastern Front: German firing. Town burned by retreating Germans. Scorched earth.
Bomb plot

220757 22:40:49 - 22:51:10 1944 SD B/W Germany

The Nazi Plan Reel 22
55th Birthday of Hitler 20Apr44
Parade “Unter den Linden”; debris decorated with small Nazi flags and signs “Unsere Mauern brechen - unsere Herzen nicht” (Our walls are breaking but not our hearts).
Hitler inspects new weapons, shakes hands with soldiers, laughs, CU smile on Hitler’s face.
Goering, Keitel, Doenitz, Kreissler, Himmler et al congratulating.
22:43:05 Conference after Hitler’s escape from bombing plot 20Jul44
Hitler greets Mussolini at train station - shakes hand with left hand. Himmler, Hitler & Mussolini, Graciani. Hitler stooped; saying goodbye to Mussolini at station.
Hitler with Funk, Speer, Sauckel, Dr. Sauer, Lammers, Himmler, Goebbels, Guderian, Jodl, Bormann.
22:45:05 People Court Trial concerning Plots of 20th July. Judge Freislar Presiding (sd), defendant Josef Hirmer.
22:49:44 Major Rehmer decorated for Role in Suppression of 20th July Plot. Hails Unity of NSDAP and Wermacht. July 1944.
Rehmer addresses his soldiers “... our political mission is to defend our German fatherland and the National Socialist idea... and we will carry out this mission to total victory...”

220763 04:00:06 - 04:10:40 1944 SD b/w Germany; France

Eve of Battle [Reel 1]
On preparations for the invasion of France. D-Day
German coastal defences being built by slave labour. Gun emplacements and fortifications. German troops marching. Hitler meets Mussolini off aircraft. Brief Yalta conference.
04:02:01

220541 17:00:10 - 17:07:25 1945 Sd b/w Germany North Africa The Fall of Berlin Reel 1
Ruins of Chancellery, ext & int. w/ globe. Animation w/ quotes in cyrillic. Arrows show Hitler's plan for world conquest. Launch of German bomber from ship, paratroopers out of Nazi plane & landing in snow; dust & N. Africa attack w/ Rommel. Bombing. Periscope. Tanker hit, launching torpedoes. POV past waving swastika flags, Hitler & Mussolini. Burning tanks & oil on eastern front with Stalingrad. Double exposed montage over map.

220541 17:23:30 - 17:29:05 1945 Sd b/w Germany Russia

The Fall of Berlin Reel 4
Men in street firing artillery, fighting, advancing thru heaving damaged city. Troops move forward, house to house fighting. Civilians looking at wall posters in German & Russian; civilians digging out rubble & clearing streets. Old people carry bricks. Soviet tanks past people waving & throwing flowers. CU of faces & people waving from windows. Hitler & cheering crowds. Crowds now storming trucks for clothes & bread. High angle of people lined up for goods and USSR women army passing out goods. Men dipping out soup for thin women (camp victims). Burning city. Capturing Germans by Soviets. Tanks past church. Building burning & firing artillery in streets. Destroyed planes in hangers. Fighter landing. Goering giving awards. Mussolini visits Hitler. German General crying. Soviets fighting, buildings burning. Night & tracers.

220477 20:05:04 - 20:06:09 1945 SD B/W Germany

World Criminal Hitler Dead As Berlin Falls
Hitler obituary
Hitler saluting as troops parade. Hitler with Röhm (Roehm) marching before troops. Crowd with hand raised in Nazi salute. CU Hitler making speech. Hitler Nazi salute; with Von Papen; with Mussolini and Goering Munich pact, good quality ; looking through binoculars; visiting patients in hospital.

221417 08:03:20 - 08:05:38 1958 SD B/W Germany; Italy;

25 Years Ago Today (Hitler; Anti-Fascist Protest; Mussolini; Depression; CCC; Jigsaw Puzzles)
INCLUDING:

08:04:11 Mussolini & fascists saluting w/ raised knives. CUs. Black Shirts; Mussolini gives kiss on cheeks.
08:04:29

221555 03:09:30 - 03:12:00 1960; 1960s; SD B/W

USA, Italy

25 Years Ago - 1935
03:09:34 Italian army tanks performing for Mussolini & others. Smoke, phosphorus shells exploding.
03:09:50

DEATH OF MUSSOLINI

220621 21:40:47 - 21:44:56 1945 Si B/W Italy

Mussolini - Preparation for Burial in Milan
Some shots out of focus. - Shows body of Mussolini laying on slab. Womans body in coffin - badly out of focus - head held by doctor for cameras. Destroyed bridge. Mussolini on slab - group of press / witnesses ? stand around body in mortuary.

220469 03:09:22 - 03:17:09 1945 SD B/W

INCLUDING:

03:15:00 Battle of Germany - night bombing. Street fighting. Hitler and Mussolini. During war. Illustration Mussolini’s execution. Hitler visits victims of assassination attempt. Protestant?, Catholic and Jewish religious ceremonies. Military cemetery. Pacific war battle scenes. Japanese plane shot down. Map of route to Tokyo. Truman. MacArthur with Nimitz. Troops run. Fleet. Planes in formation. US flag.

220685 00:00:08 - 00:09:10 1945 SIL B/W Italy

Hanging of Mussolini
Crowds surrounding bodies laying on street, man with camera in foreground. Crowds, many with guns. Man holding up photograph. Bodies on street. Top shot huge crwods - jostling - scuffles. Body of Mussolini and Clara Petacci. Man in uniform standing over bodies making notes. Pan over bodies. Three bodies hanging from girder.

220472 09:09:51 - 09:15:14 1945 SD B/W

1945 - Year Of Victory

INCLUDING:
Newsreel Review of Greatest News Year In History
Street fighting during invasion of Germany.
Yalta with Churchill, FDR and Stalin. FDR burial. Truman sworn in. Berlin in flames. Hitler with Mussolini, Goering and others study map. Mob in Rome and Mussolini’s body hung up by heels. Hitler’s bunker in Berlin. Gasoline canisters which burned his body; Hitler’s coat and Eva Braun’s clothes? General Keitel signs Germany’s surrender w/ Eisenhower.
Ike parades through London and awarded English honours; motorcade through Paris; with wife off plane and ticker-tape parade in US.
Pacific naval battle and land fighting. Kamikaze attacks on ships. MacArthur returns to Philippines. Manila burning, Iwo Jima flag hoisting.
09:13:04

220475 15:58:25 - 15:59:22 1945 SD B/W Italy

Title: The Gruesome End Of Benito Mussolini
15:58:33 Crowd in Milan square; bodies of Mussolini & Clara Petacci displayed on ground w/ Communist partisan armed guards around. Police use fire hoses on excited crowd. Bodies strung up by heels at gasoline station, Piazzale Loreto, 29Apr45.
NOTE: Killed 28Apr45

221340 14:13:13 - 14:14:06 1945 SD B/W Italy

Death of a Tyrant (Mussolini)
Bodies surrounded by partisans with guns and crowds in large square. Hoses used to keep people back. Hanging w/ Clara Petacci & another Fascist.

220929          18:04:46 - 18:05:29            1946   SD        B/W    italy

Mussolini’s Body Stolen
VS Milan cemetery, people around desecrated grave. CU Mussolini’s empty grave, graverobbers tools abandoned. Water pipe where coffin washed. Fence where robbers escaped.

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