World in Film. Issues 20, 79, 43
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Date: 2010-01-10

WORLD IN FILM. ISSUE NO 20, 1940 - 1949. ARC Identifier 23862 / Local Identifier 111-ADC-10100. Summary: LAST FIGHT PICTURES FROM THE PACIFIC.  British Naval and air units at sea.  HS, US convoy under way.  Admiral Rawlings, British officer being transported from his ship at sea via breech buoy to an American ship alongside. GSAP pictures of Japanese land installation being strafed.  MS, Admiral William F Halsey aboard ship speaking to group of men in fire control room.  L & HMASs, American battleship's guns firing at shore in the battle of the Honshu Sea. Scenes aboard US battleship of ammunition being sent to upper deck.  SOLDIERS BECOME FARM HANDS.  Pan of large group of German soldiers assembled in barracks yard in the British zone.  The German soldiers are fingerprinted and insignia removed from uniforms.  A German farmer addressing the group and several short scenes of the soldiers, who are now farmers, pitching hay, etc. SECURING OF WORLD PEACE, WESTMINSTER CHURCHHOUSE, LONDON.  Scene of conference with was held to ratify the San Francisco charter in securing world peace.  At the conference are Mr Vyacheslav Molotov and Wellington Koo.  VIDKUN QUISLING IS SENTENCED TO DEATH.: Oslo, Norway.  Quisling arriving at the courthouse.  Inside the courthouse during sentencing. Exterior, Quisling leaving the court and entering patrol wagon.  MARSHAL BERNARD MONTGOMERY IN OSENBERG, GERMANY.: Osenberg Germany.  Scene of the Marshal's wrecked plane from which he escaped unhurt. Scenes of the Marshal reviewing Canadians of the Third Div.  Cu, officer reading commendations.  Several sots of Montgomery awarding medals.  RIVER TRAVEL, CHINA.: China.  HSs, Chinese boats in river which runs between high mountains. Various scenes of natives on shore pulling boats up stream.  Cut -ins of laborers straining to pull craft.(very good scenes). WORLD IN FILM. Issue no. 79, "BEGINNING OF TRIALS AGAINST GERMAN DOCTORS, NUREMBERG", 1947 ARC Identifier 23843 / Local Identifier 111-ADC-10081. Summary: Courtroom personnel stand as the tribunal files in and take their places.  An American officer calls out the names of the chief defendants.  Pan, defendants in dock including Siegfried Handloser, Herta Oberheuser, Rudolf Brandt.  Brig Gen Telford Taylor addressing court.  HS, tribunal.  All plead not guilty to the indictment.  "TIERGARTEN PLOWED UP, BERLIN"(Issue No 52).: Berlin, Germany.  Pan of Tiergarten.  British tractors and bulldozers help cultivate the soil.  Women help to dislodge tree roots.  Pan of the Victory Column in the area.  Men and women till soil and sow seeds; covering rows of potatoes planted in soil.  "MAUTHAUSEN TRIALS - DACHAU"(Issue No 52).: Dachua, Germany.  The American Military Court pronounces death sentence on those responsible for the crimes committed at Mauthausen.  Defendants: Eigruber, Klimowitsch, Spatzenegger, and Zoller.  WORLD IN FILM. Issue no. 43, "NUREMBERG AND MAUTHAUSEN", 1948. ARC Identifier 23851 / Local Identifier 111-ADC-10089. Summary: LS, Chief US Prosecutor Robert H Jackson speaking. Pan, prisoners box showing Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, at first trial.  MCUs, Gruber, Grand, Green, SS men standing trial.  Pan of Mauthausen criminals.  "POLICE RAID BLACK MARKET, BERLIN AND VIENNA(Issue No 27).: Vienna Austria, and Berlin Germany. VS, soldiers and police round up black market operators.  MSs, soldiers search suspects.  VS, trucks take prisoners away.  "BELSEN AND NUREMBERG"(Issue No 26). Germany.  VS, war criminals (concentration camp guards, etc) men and women enter court building in Belsen.  VS, prisoners in dock.  VS, dead at Belsen concentration camp.  LS, court building in Nuremberg.  VS, German prisoners working in courtroom.  MS, US Justice Robert Jackson leaving building after inspection tour.  LS, prisoners walking in prison yard.  VS, cell block.  VS, MP looks into peep-holes of cells marked "Goering", "Von Ribbentrop", "Seyss-Inquart", "Doenitz", "Von Papen", and "Streicher".  "AUSCHWITZ TRIAL, CRAKOW, POLAND"(ISSUE NO 137).: Crakow, Poland.  LS, Building in which the trial was held.  Ints, courtroom as judges file in. Cut-ins around courtroom and showing several of the prisoners.  The trial was conducted by a Polish Tribunal and resulted in the sentencing of the people guilty for the death of 300,000 prisoners. Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964) Made possible by a donation from John and Paige Curran.