Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: The Great Surrender

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
717
Date Released
1 Mar 1943
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  1. 1Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: The Great Surrender

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 1
Section Title
Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Great Surrender - Stalingrad. DESCRIPTION: Movietone’s dramatic newsreel story of German capitulation at Stalingrad, following the encirclement of the Sixth Army. SHOTLIST: Cut story - Country under snow. Lines of prisoners into camera. Map showing Stalingrad and surrounding countryside. GS plains with artillery firing. Heavy artillery and explosions. Long lines of artillery firing. Various shots of troops advancing over wreckage - dead bodies - graves etc., Lt General Batov greets General Rokossovsky and Marshal Voronov. They enter trench and light cigarettes. Artillery on outskirts of Stalingrad. Shots of ruined buildings. Soldiers crawling into position dragging machine gun on sleigh. Various shots of machine guns and artillery firing. Firing point blank at city. Several shots of POWs coming out of building carrying white flags. Lt General von Daniels with remains of his division surrenders. Walks into camera. Several shots of Lt General Sanne with some of his division surrendering. CU Sanne pan to prisoners. Romanian Brigadier General Romulus Dimitriu with his staff surrender. Various shots. Also in ground was Lt General Schlemmer and Major General von Drebber & Lt General Rinoldi. General Daniels approaches hut (slow motion) and entering. Field Marshal von Paulus out of car, with other officers and enters building. With him is Lt General Schmidt. Various interior shots. CU von Paulus and Russian General Tolbunin. CU Order of the day in Russian and English. CU Stalin. CU Prisoners coming in down winding road. VG. Wreckage. In the city Red Flag being placed on balcony. Elevated shots of German Prisoners marching through City.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Health and medicine; Weather; Environment; Weapons; Aviation; War damage; Prisoners of war; Military; Newsreels
Footage sources
Movietone
Card file number
43435
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
493
Story extras:
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