Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Germany’s Industrial Ruins

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
828A
Date Released
19 Apr 1945
Date submitted
Apr 1945
Date submitted
12 Apr 1945
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Trailer: ‘Pandora’s Boxes’ - Salvage
  2. 2Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: In Memory of the President
  3. 3Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Second Subaltern Princess Elizabeth
  4. 4Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Germany’s Industrial Ruins
  5. 5Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Found in the Ruins

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 5
Section Title
Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Germany’s Industrial Ruins. DESCRIPTION: RAF films show the damage that Allied bombing has done to such places as Hanover, Duisburg etc. The Krupps armament factory at Essen now lies in ruins. SHOTLIST: Cut story - Aerial views: - Damage to Hanover, ruined factories, etc. Pans of same. In the Ruhr, Duisburg, on the Rhine, ruins of Thyssen Steelworks, shells of buildings. At Hamborn, synthetic oil plants wrecked, pans of ruins. Includes the Sterfrader Synthetic Oil Plant. Duisburg Dock area, shows tugs and barges high and dry, also many sunk, ruins, etc. Ems/Weser Canal, pan of huge craters, hundreds of them. At Essen, Krupps factories in ruins. On the ground, Americans inspect ruins, various shots of same. GV of Alfred Krupps plinth, with statue knocked off & lying on ground. Yanks stands on same. (This section only 67046A: 04041 UP Dupe & B&W Comb.) Very good aerial material please note.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Vehicles; Weapons; Aviation; Business and commerce; Fires; Industry and manufacture; War damage; Prisoners of war; Crime; Fashion and costume; Military
Footage sources
APS
Gaumont
Royal Air Force Film Unit [RAFFU]
United States Army Air Force [USAAF]
Card file number
45670
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
240
Story extras:
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