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BATTE OF MONTE CASSINO - royalty-free footage in our collection
220806 10:14:21
- 10:20:46 1944 SIL B/W
[Monte
Cassino]
Feb44
GV Monte Cassino area. Plane
formation flies overhead. Explosions on mountain. Valley - camouflaged guns fired. More explosions on mountainside.
220806 10:20:46
- 10:27:53 1944 SIL B/W
[Monte
Cassino] - some good aerials
Feb44
US troops on mountainside and vehicles on roadside. Aerial Monte Cassino Abbey. Ammunition. Troops resting. Destruction on road. Troops and vehicle on road. Huge piles of empty shells. Aerial village. Tanks and soldiers resting on
tanks. Troops past
village women washing laundry. Good aerial village. Aerials monastery.
Troops on road. Destruction in valley.
10:26:15 Troops searching dead German? Pan over valley.
220806 10:28:02
- 10:34:12 1944 SIL B/W
[Monte Cassino - assault on monastery]
Feb44
Explosions on mountain. Abbey on
mountain top, explosions nearby and flak. Allied troops in valley. Firing guns and stacking ammunition.
220806 10:34:22
- 10:41:56 1944 SIL B/W
[Monte
Cassino] - good GVs of area
Feb44
Aerials village. Troops and
villagers on road. LS village. Monte Cassino Monastery incl. aerials. Allied
troops firing guns in valley and on road. Tanks. Assault on monastery
- explosions and flak. Clearing
huge piles of empty shells.
High altitude aerials of monastery and village. Mark Clark with troops putting hands up. Men resting on tanks. Men sleeping in ditches by
roadside. Troops walk past village
women washing laundry. GVs valley
and monastery. Troops on
mountainside keeping watch.
220806 10:42:08
- 10:45:48 1944 SD B/W
[Italy -
Allied fighting - mountain - snow]
Jan?44
Aerials of snowy mountain region
surrounding Monte Cassino. Village
of Monte Cassino surrounded by mountains. Vehicles and troops arrive in deep snow. Italian troops with mules into village carrying supplies and
unloaded. Wounded carried on
stretchers. British troops
put on makeshift white snow camouflage suits and climb uphill.
Supposedly Monte Cassino but looks
quite different because of snow
(Narration is cut up and not usable)
220806 10:45:58
- 10:49:49 1944 SD B/W
[Monte
Cassino bombing]
Planes fly overhead in formation. Mountain and valley bombed.
Sound.
220806 10:49:58
- 10:51:30 1944 SIL B/W
[Views
Monte Cassino]
Aerials Cassino area. British
troops firing guns in valley. Village in ruins and
craters. British soldiers smile at
camera.
220806 10:51:44
- 11:01:54 1944 SIL B/W
[Monte
Cassino - pilot briefing & aerials]
Studying aerial photograph of Cassino area. Pilots resting with hot drinks -joking with nurses. Pilots get into planes and
takeoff. Flying above Cassino and
strafing of valley seen from plane. Additional planes takeoff and in flight filmed from above.
Bombarded Cassino seen from ground. Plane formations seen from below. Good takeoffs. Troops
firing on mountainside. Sign
mines. Explosion dangerously
near soldier. LS explosions
in valley and on mountain. Ruins.
10:57:57 Excellent shot POV plane
diving towards flames coming out of bombarded monastery. Soldiers digging graves in
cemetery. GVs valley 7
assault. GVs valley and
mountains. Troops climb uphill and
survey valley; firing towards valley. Patrol climbs down towards valley amidst fire.
220417 11:17:46
- 11:31:01 1943?
1944? SD B/W
How Good
Is A Gun?
Demonstrates the firing of light
carbines M-1 rifles, BAR's,
machine guns, mortars, antitank guns, bazooka, 57, and a 105-mm howitzer. 155
rifle.
11:18:10 Valley, war-torn village
in what was Nazi occupied country, rubble. US troops in group resting & smoking, eating outside
houses. Talking about how good the
guns are that they are using.
11:19:51 Men march into post
theater in barracks; inside w/ movie playing in front. Instructional film showing
firepower of light carbine -
bullets thru Nazi helmets on models in woods. Soldier firing M-1 rifle shows how bullet can pass thru tree
or wall & into target. Browning automatic demonstrated cuts down tree. 30 calibre machine gun demonstrated. 60mm mortar demonstrated. 81mm mortar laying smoke. Bazooka fires on tank. 37mm anti-tank gun demonstrated. 57mm.
11:22:46 105 Howitzer
demonstrated. Long Tom 155 big gun
firing. End of demonstration film
sequence.
11:23:32 Troops pull artillery
into position on Italian front over mountains & muddy roads. Shows a "Long Tom" w/
Bellowing Bitch painted on barrel pulled thru heavy mud. Howitzers & Sherman tanks &
other military equipment moving up. Troops on mountainside prepare to shell village.
11:25:32 240-mm howitzer pulled by
two armoured tractors, is assembled & then shells an Italian town in
mountains w/ 300lb shells. Guns
firing. Tanks move into valley (Monte Cassino?) & fire from beneath olive
trees. Good montage artillery
firing. Mortars. Battle scenes as
troops move forward.
11:28:29 Italian civilians watch
outside town. Infantry follow
tanks into the valley. Shows
troops entering the town; mine detectors used; fighting in the streets /
snipers. Civilians leave caves to
welcome US troops & receive food. Waving. Little girl w/ US
soldier. CU Children.
220471 08:38:17
- 08:40:40 1944 SD B/W
Nazis
Force Bombing Of Monastery
Various views Monte Cassino monastery. On top of hill. Allies firing guns in fields
around. Monastery bombarded - used
as fortress by Nazis. Aerials
Cassino village. Loading
ammunition in guns. Planes fly
overhead. Explosions and shelling
of abbey at Monte Cassino
220806 10:45:58
- 10:49:49 1944 SD B/W
[Monte
Cassino bombing]
Planes fly overhead in formation. Mountain and valley bombed.
Sound.
220806 10:49:58
- 10:51:30 1944 SIL B/W
[Views
Monte Cassino]
Aerials Cassino area. British
troops firing guns in valley. Village in ruins and
craters. British soldiers smile at
camera.
220806 10:51:44
- 11:01:54 1944 SIL B/W
[Monte
Cassino - pilot briefing & aerials]
Studying aerial photograph of Cassino area. Pilots resting with hot drinks -joking with nurses. Pilots get into planes and takeoff. Flying above Cassino and strafing of
valley seen from plane. Additional
planes takeoff and in flight filmed from above.
Bombarded Cassino seen from ground. Plane formations seen from below. Good takeoffs. Troops
firing on mountainside. Sign
mines. Explosion dangerously
near soldier. LS explosions
in valley and on mountain. Ruins.
10:57:57 excellent shot POV plane
diving towards flames coming out of bombarded monastery. Soldiers digging graves in
cemetery. GVs valley 7
assault. GVs valley and
mountains. Troops climb uphill and
survey valley; firing towards valley. Patrol climbs down towards valley amidst fire.
220791 09:04:24 - 09:10:07 1944 Sd b/w
Fighting
Near Cassino
Map of Italy. Antiaircraft guns and artillery fired at night near Cassino. Map of Cassino. Good night firing.
Day - mortars fired. Various shots soldiers in trenches and under fire.
09:05:56 Allied troops
surrendering - white flag. Prisoners of war, mostly New Zealanders marched away. German officer in mountains with
binoculars. Mountain tops. Ruins
of Monte Cassino.
09:06:32 German big guns - barrel raised. Gun loaded and fired.
09:07:02 Ruins of monastery,
German troops move about the ruins. British bombers fly overhead. Bombs explode, Ack-ack guns
fired. Planes fly through
flack. Plane shot down in
flames. Germans fire mortars from
ruins of Cassino. Germans prepare
grenades. German soldiers in
shelter watching explosions outside, small Nazi flag flying.
220786 01:16:41
- 01:20:26 1944 SD B/W
Deutsche
Wochenschau
Germans in Italy Defend Cassino and Monte Cassino Abbey
Map showing Italy. Kesselring
& officers, Kesselring into car. Observation posts, men looking through binoculars and on field
telephone. Gun crew.
01:17;40 MS-Pan Courtyards, stairways, etc. of Monte Cassino Abbey. German officers with monks, men remove
art treasures, books, etc watched by local population.
Treasures are brought to Castel Sant Angelo in Rome.
01:18:40 LS Cassino Monastery before U.S. attack. U.S. bombs burst in Cassino
Monastery, ruins, bomb damage.
01:19:33 German officers with abbot of Cassino in car.
01:19:57 Pan Ruins, bombed buildings of Castel Gandolfo. Local civilians go through
wreckage. Body carried out on
stretcher.
220786 01:37:14 - 01:48:11 1944 SD B/W
OSS film
from German Newsreels -
Made to show Happy and prosperous living in the New Order
Dutch workers presented with symbolic shovels to work for the New Germany
01:37:51 Greek Catholic religious ceremony in Serbia. Serbian national dance in courtyard marks end of Slav
festival.
01:38:27 Yacht race off Malaga in Spain
01:38:38 Czech soldiers demonstrate skiing in the Carpathian mountains.
01:38:50 French fishing boats set sail under German torpedo boat
protection. Commentary suggests
protection is to prevent the French from escaping across Channel. Twin
anti-aircraft guns fire at allied bomber.
01:40:12 On board French fishing boat, herring sorted and salted. Drying fish in ovens.
01:40:32 Trieste - Italian army celebrate Catholic mass on parade ground. Men swear allegiance to the flag.
01:41:16 Southern Italian front. German re-enforcements moving up. Provisions taken by donkey to mountain positions. Bread taken into foxhole. German artillery.
01:42:27 OSS commentary says the following footage in the German newsreel is
religious propaganda. Monte
Cassino before bombing. Ruins of
Abbey at Cassino following allied bombing. OSS commentary says the Abbey was being used as an
observation post for German military purposes. Monk, abbot of Monte Cassino, with German officers.
01:43:30 Castel Gandolfo in ruins, OSS commentary says that the German
commentary on the newsreels said there were 15,000 women and children refugees
lost in the raid. Bodies of dead
children on roadside. Strecher
carried from Rubble.
01:44:02 Eastern Front, Northern
sector, German vehicles retreating. Bombs towed behind vehicles to blow bridges after crossing (scorched
earth). German explode buildings. German soldiers drinking wine from
bottle - officer with Iron Cross. Troops in snowy foxholes. German tanks of the panther type. German soldier on field telephone. Artillery and explosions
01:46:30 Kirovograd - German armoured division plan counter attack. Armour and troops dressed in white move
out across snow. Artillery fired. Field telephone. Rocket guns fired, good shots.
01:47:57 Long line of Russian prisoners of war.
220786 01:58:24
- 02:07:43 1944 SD B/W
Battle for
Cassino
Hills around Cassino. Relief model
of area used to show tactics and positions. German observer with binoculars superimposed over model to
show enemy vantage point.
02:01:00 Hills around Monte Cassino. CU aircraft propellers turning. Warning leaflets telling civilian population to clear the area packed
into ammunition shells. Camouflaged 105 mm Howitzers fire shells containing warnings.
02:01:45 Feb. 18th 1944 A-20 planes take off. AV B-25, B-17 bombers in formation flight. AV bombs dropping. Huge explosion as monastery hit. Artillery firing. Bombs drop around Cassino.
02:02:39 Model showing positions following bombardment. Animation shows German
positions as moving swastikas.
02:03:47 Troops and M-4 Sherman tanks moving up, ground crews work on
bombers. Big guns 154 Long Toms
moved into position. 240 mm
Howitzer moved into place. Sound
plotting equipment laid, holes dug and microphones in watertight bags put into
holes. Sequence shows how sound
plotting is recorded and relayed to plotters who use the information to locate
position of enemy guns on terrain map.
02:06:02 March 15th - Second bombing - aircraft in formation flight, bombs
dropped. Explosions as bombs hit. Big guns fired.
02:07:03 US troops attempt to enter Cassino. Bomb damage, rubble acts as barricade.
02:07:21 Model map shows positions after 2nd bomdardment. Explosion. Newspaper headlines re Big Drive on in Italy.
220975 12:00:14
- 12:12:17 1944
/ 1947 SD COL
Thunderbolt
[R1 Pt1]
Dirs. William Wyler, John Sturges, Lester Koenig, Gail Kubik
Made 1944, rel. 1947?
USAF pilot in cockpit; VS cameras fitted in vars parts of fighter plane [P-47
Thunderbolt]. MS James Stewart
introduces film by reading telegram from Commanding Officer of USAAF Gen. Carl
Spatz.
12:02:04: Pan across Italian
harbour w/ bombed buildings; VS Italians in rubbled streets w/ horse and carts;
family inc. mother and child w/ belongings at side of Kimble Bridge as vehicles
pass. Children among ruins;
rotting corpse in debris.
12:03:10: AVs Italian landscape
inc. mountains, rivers and waterfall; hill towns; bombed towns, railways
etc. Zoom map of Corsica. VS residents; Bar Napoleon. Graves of German soldiers. VS mechanics prepare planes at Alto Air
Base; narr introduces pilots as they get up, wash from helmets, shave, comb
hair, brush teeth.
12:08:10: AV Alto Air Base. Men on watchtower; US flag at half-mast. Pilots enter tent for briefing. Lt. Col. in girlfriends nursing hat
stands at map; Animated map of Italy inc. Gustaf Line w/ Anzio, Cassino. AV Monte Cassino in ruins. Lt. Gen Acker; Maj. Gen Cannon; Brig.
Gen Savile. Operation Strangle
animated maps. AVs destroyed
bridges.
200551 09:12:42
- 09:15:13 1944 SD B/W
Advance on
Rome
Unusual Universal titles with allied flags.
Sunset on the Italian Front. Allied artillery firing, night shots. Day - French troops and pack animals move forward under
smokescreen. Gustav Line. Little Cassino shelled, German
prisoners of War. Ruins of Castel
Forte. French and American troops
in the ruins of Castel Forte. British troops advance, firing big guns. German POWs. AVs Abandoned ruins of Monte Cassino and town
below.
09:14:26 5th and 8th armies advance. Through Scauri. Wrecked
German equipment and dead Germans. Refugees.
09:14:56 Allied planes bombing behind enemy lines.
200551 09:17:38
- 09:19:17 1944 SD B/W
Allies
Close in on Rome
Ruins of Cassino, signs re mines and boobytraps. Damaged tanks. Looking up at ruins of Monte Cassino. Army leaders with large map confer, Generals Alexander, Truscott and
Clark. Tanks advance. German prisoners of war marched down
road.
09:18:42 Captured German secret weapons, The Death Wagon which is radio
controlled armoured vehicle carrying explosives. Human torpedo on beach near Anzio, young captured German
sailor. Americans try to make
suicide bomb explode, it doesnt.
Wartime inventions
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