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  • Short Summary

    Allied troops taking prisoners and shelling German town.

  • Description

    Germany.

    Several shots of the German prisoners walking along the road with their hands up, several American soldiers walking behind them. More shots of the prisoners.

    Various long shots of the shelled countryside, smoke spreading across fields. Various air shots of the snowbound countryside - fields, tanks moving, town, woods etc.

    Various shots of German town of Schonau being shelled - shot from the hill - several houses bursting, smoke rising over houses.

    Dates found in paperwork - 31/12/1944 and 01/01/1945.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1995.15
    Media URN:
    62197
    Group:
    Unissued unused
    Archive:
    British Pathe
    Issue Date:
    Sound:
    Mute
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:04:35:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:53:39:00 / 01:58:14:00
    Canister:
    UN 962 B

Comments (1)

  1. jamied says

    A slate at 03:33 tells us that the footage following it was filmed at Schonau in Germany, on 3 December 1944, by Morris J. Ratick of the 163rd Signal Photo Company.

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