ActualitÉs FranÇaises, Les: No 6

Synopsis

This issue of the post-liberation newsreel released in February 1945 shows 1) students at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Paris donating blood for wounded soldiers; 2) Tollet, president of the Parisian Committee of Liberation, addressing students in the Place de l’Hotel de Ville; 3) discovery of frozen corpses of 34 Belgians murdered by the Germans at Bande; 4) Le Touquet, the most mined town in France, being cleared of teller mines and booby traps; 5) officers of the Normandie-Hieman Squadron pause in Algiers before attending a reception at the Inter-Allied Centre in Paris. Tillon and General Catroux are present; 6) Grumman Avengers and Hellcats take off from a USN aircraft carrier to bomb Manila; 7) Allied advance on the Western Front.

Language

English

Country

France

Medium

Film; Film. 16mm. sd. b&w. 13 min.

Technical information

Black-and-white / Sound

Year of production

1945

Availability

Special loan only

Subjects

History

Keywords

French newsreels; newsreel films; World War II

Distribution Formats

Type

Film

Format

16mm

Distributor

Name

Imperial War Museum

Phone

020 7416 5291

Fax

020 7416 5299

Address

Department of Film
Lambeth Road
London
SE1 6HZ

Notes

Address for video sales: Duxford, Cambridgeshire CB2 4QR