Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Axis Plans Go Wrong

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
711A
Date Released
21 Jan 1943
Date submitted
18 Jan 1943
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Section Title
Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Axis Plan Goes Wrong. DESCRIPTION: The RAF continues to bomb Berlin and other German cities. The Germans lost ten aircraft from the fifty sent to bomb London on Sunday 17th January, four of them to one single night-fighter. In the North African Campaign Field Marshal Rommel has been suffering set backs, captured German newsreel shows Rommel being decorated by Hitler. The following scenes from captured German newsreels convey the thoroughness and arrogance with which the Nazi soldier swept on his conquering way across Russia, but he reckoned without the courage and tenacity of our Soviet Allies who have sent him reeling back. SHOTLIST: Cut Story - Night shots of Manchester & Blenheims & Lancasters, bombs falling from same. Various shots of London Raid damage, these being in the vicinity of Peckham & Dulwich. Various angle shots of crashed German plane (Dornier) RAF personnel look over ruins of plane. Giraud in Germany getting out of plane salutes, climbs into car. Shots of various other prisoners. Rommel & Kesselring in desert. CU of both; Rommel at German HQ Berlin enters room with Goebbels, various shots of same. CU Rommel; Hitler presenting Rommel with award. Map. Monty gets out of car & walks to CU. Aerial scenes of Caucasian Mountains, aerial shot of German Alpine troops at base of mountain, on the march. Soldiers with pack horses climbing mountain. Small artillery on mountain firing. The mountains being snow covered. Jerries through forest carry raft cross river Kaban. Shots of soldiers marching, various explosions around. Raft crosses river amid machine gun fire. LS of artillery explosions. CU breech shells handed up, direct hits on two Russian tanks. Advance on infantry. CU tank, & others advancing. Ju88B in flight, MS of Heinkel dropping bombs & masses of incendiaries. Aerial shots of direct hits on roads, railways, etc. very good. Tracers coming up at planes, also very good. Several shots of fires, LS Stalingrad, as in GR issue 709. Finishes up with tanks advancing.
Keywords
Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Vehicles; Health and medicine; Children; Weather; Environment; Weapons; Aviation; Fires; Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Ceremonies; War damage; Propaganda; Prisoners of war; Animals; Military; Awards and honours; Newsreels
Footage sources
Ministry of Information
Card file number
43296
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
496
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