Learning on ScreenMovietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Germany’s Russian Offensive 1943
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- British Movietone News
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Story
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- 3 / 3
- Section Title
- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Germany’s Russian Offensive, 1943. DESCRIPTION: Hitler’s attack in Russia came just when many commentators were saying there would be German offensive this summer. SHOTLIST: Cut story - Map of Russia shows Kursk, & Oral, & neighbouring districts. Elevated shots of German tanks, down road out of camera. German troops rush across fields, explosions of heavy artillery, German tanks into camera. Heavy artillery firing. Stukas taking off in formation, & in flight, MS of undercarriage shows bomb doors open & bombs leaving plane, masses of incendiaries, & numbers of small bombs falling, hits on targets registered. Soviet soldiers crawling along the ground, under barbed wire. CU Russian officer, artillery firing, Russian soldiers pass shells, various shots of heavy artillery firing, from various positions, wooded sections, field etc. Shots of wrecked tanks. Shots of Russian artillery hit, finishing on heavy artillery firing.
- Keywords
- Vehicles; Environment; Weapons; Aviation; War damage; Military
- Footage sources
- Library
- Card file number
- 43838
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 156
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