21 September 1939

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INVADERS OVER-RUN POLAND Official German pictures show immensity of Nazi onslaught on Polish capital.


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Reference P8854
Tape V632(5)
Issue 893
Can
Source REUTERS
Restrictions Restrictions on certain uses may apply, and may vary from those listed. British Paramount stories dated before 1952 without a Tape or Can number will not be readily available.

Time code
Date original Released : 21/09/1939
Duration 202ft
Technical BLUEPRINT
V632(5) POS 336ft
Subset Reuters TV - British Paramount
Location BEUTHEN, POLAND BERLIN, GERMANY DANZIG
Sound
Colourbw B/W


















 Poland: Long & gen. views of mass of German light tanks & lorries on hillside advancing. Semi top view tank moving off down road. Big gen. view of lorries & men advancing along road. Long view pan up tanks & men (cross on tanks). Semi view horses & gun past. Long view towards motor-cycles & troops at cross roads. Long view armoured car & motor-cycles down road. Top view pan & CU pan of smashed bridge..showing railway engine smashed against bridge. Semi view pan wrecked railway engine against bridge. CU soldiers walking over hanging sleepers. Semi view soldiers with bridge beam repairing bridge. Gen. & semi views of soldiers fixing bridge across river. Semi view tank (with cross) over newly built bridge. Gen., back, pan & semi views of German cavalry over damaged bridge. Gen. view motor-cyclists hurrying into wood. Shot thru' trees of motor-cyclists hurrying into wood...in dust. Semi view men taking up positions..lying on ground. in wood. Gen. view cavalry approaching in wood. CU anti-tank gun pushed into position. Pan cavalry charging thru' wood. Gen. view pan of damaged bridge. Long view showing bridge dipping into river. Semi view water over bridge. Long view, CU & gen. view of damaged bridge.

Good Scenes.

Scenes of Germans Repairing Bridges etc. Wrecked by Retreating Poles.

Semi view men stripped to waist sawing timber. Gen. view men stripped to waist erecting posts. CU two men stripped to waist carrying barbed wire away pan to men working on barbed wire fence. Gen. view men carrying framework of barbed wire. CU pan up man stripped to waist (wearing identity disc) & working on barbed wire. Gen. view troops in full kit marching past cement tank traps.

Scenes of 'Jubilant' Greeting of German Soldiers by Polish Population.

Semi view civilians waving to German cavalry past. Semi view german soldier looking thru' periscopic binoculars & showing fields & grassland below & into distance...pan to military cyclists along road & hiding in hedge.

Beuthen, Poland: Semi view sign "Beuthen O/S etc. (Customs Centre). Pan down building showing shrapnel holes in walls. CU shrapnel holes in wall of building. Gen. view of house with damaged roof. CU sign showing Skull & Crossbones & "Blindganger Lebensgefahr" (Danger sign) pan down to unexploded shell. Semi CU holes in wall & unexploded shell. Gen. view pan people on smashed bridge to river. Semi view shot thru' smashed window of damaged bridge. Semi view of damaged bridge. Pan of large army lorry past soldiers.

Berlin, Germany: Gen. & semi views crowd of recruits in streets.. in civvies. Angle shot, semi view & back view of recruits in civvies away in lorries..waving. Semi view recruits walking with cases.

Berlin Air-Raid Precautions.

Semi view 6 rifles & kits laid out pan up to soldiers with anti-aircraft gun & rangefinder on roof-top. Gen. view soldiers with anti-aircraft gun & rangefinder on roof...city in b-g below. CU soldier on roof with rangefinder. Semi top view soldier with rangefinder on roof... river & city below. Semi view soldier on roof with rangefinder.

Hitler Makes Speech to the Reichstag Stating Poland's Inclusion in the Reich.

Semi top view Hitler's car arrives at Reichstag. Semi view Hitler out of car & into Reichstag. Intr. scenes in Reichstag...Hitler making speech...showing 2 Swastikas & Eagle effect. Semi view of members seated in Reichstag. Angle shot Swastika & Eagle Effect.

Danzig: Semi view pan of League Commissioner, Burckhardt, shaking hands & out of his H.Q. Gen. view Burckhardt's H.Q...people waiting. CU helmetted German soldiers waving. Travel shot along street..people waving. Gen. view troops on large catapillar lorries & guns thru' archway. Travel shot soldiers in lorry (one buys newspapers)..people waving. Gen. view soldiers in lorry thru' street..people waving...swastikas hanging from buildings. Semi view people buying newspapers. CU pan of poster in German proclaiming Annexation of Danzig to the Reich. Gen view woman blacking out windows. Long view & semi view pan down whitening curbs. Semi view handing out gas-masks. Semi view Germans in A.R.P. uniforms with gas-mask. CU gas-mask containers. Gen. view & CU four men in helmets & overalls. Gen. view sandbagging large building & steps. Semi top view & gen. view pan of men stripped to waist & packing sandbags. Semi view filling gully by wall of house with sand. Gen. view filling sandbags. Semi view packing sandbags against wall. Semi CU pan sandbags packed into recesses. Gen. view people waving to soldiers past on lorries. Semi view pan people on curb waving. Semi view pan people on curb waving..man pulls down Polish sign in b-g. Angle shot horses past. Semi view girls giving soldiers coffee as they march past. CU girl pours cup for soldier. Semi view two soldiers drinking. Semi view women giving soldiers sandwiches. Gen. view German soldier pulls down Polish Eagle sign pan as it falls to ground. Semi view groups of Poles saluting on curbside.

Military - Active; Propaganda; Film obtained from the enemy; Warsaw; Germany






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