BRITISH MOVIETONE NEWS ISSUE 829 (22 APRIL 1945)

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: NMV 829).

Synopsis

I. "Italy. The Last Offensive." Mahratta troops from Central India move up before the 8th Army attack on the Senio River. Crocodile flame-throwers clear a path through an orchard.

II. "In the Wake of the Hun." Eisenhower visits the concentration camp at Ohrdruf and watches a survivor demonstrate a Nazi flogging bench. Other survivors from the German regime are some skeletal British and Allied POWs forced to trek 600 miles in two months from the East to Gttingen, a group of surviving participants from the 1942 Dieppe "reconnaissance raid" and some prisoners (Poles, Czech, French, Yugoslav and Irish) liberated by the Coldstream Guards from a convent.

III. "2,000,000 since D-Day." Aerial view of a vast POW cage at Wrms.

IV. "Second battle of Arnhem." Soldiers embark in landing craft prior to the attack on Arnhem which has already been bombarded by artillery. After crossing a tributary of the Rhine, troops enter the town and engage in mopping up operations. Blazing buildings collapse; German prisoners with their hands up run past the camera. Item concludes with view of a wooden cross marked "Unbekannter Englischer Soldat" allegedly from the first battle of Arnhem.

 

Titles

  • BRITISH MOVIETONE NEWS ISSUE 829 (22 APRIL 1945)
 

Technical Data

Year:
1945
Running Time:
7 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound:
Sound
Footage:
652 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB
commentary
Mitchell, Leslie
Production company
British Movietone News