Visual History - 1939

vs. - LS - medium shots - early nazi Germany demonstrations, parades,
msc, cu, vs. - Adolph Hitler, interacting with people
ms, MCU, cu - vs., Neville Chamberlain, speaking
ms - Benito Mussolini, without a shirt (named by narrator as the 'Father of Modern Fascism'
ms - Hitler in car during parade
ms - Mussolini in military regalia w/ sword, then speaking (many of theses shots end in a freeze frame and hold for a second
ms- cu, vs. - Eduoard Delage'
LS - named by narrator as March 16th, 1939, large Nazi banner above nazi conference
ms - vs., Hitler speaking and crowd reactions
ms - (this like many others starts out in freeze frame) soldiers marching vs., intercut with MCU - Hitler saluting them
ms - planes flying overhead
ms - German mountains out a window
ms - various, Hitler and his cronies, narrator describes beginning of attack on Poland
ms - various nazi planes, taking off, vs., dropping bombs, bomb POV, bombs hitting in Poland (ostensibly)
ms - vs. - soldiers firing off cannons, different buildings getting hit, sequence repeats
cu- army guy with ear phones on
ms- tank
MCU- army guy with binoculars
vs., ms , cu - tanks rip through mud
ms - men jumping out of airplane vs., parachutes opening, vs.
ms - vs. men running through battle field
ms - men taking cover in ditch
vs. - bird's eye view of smoking land
MCU -cu , tilt up shot, Big Ben, ms King George VI, then Prime Minister Chamberlain arriving at #10 Downing Street, ms Winston Churchill w/ wife arrives, then Anthony Gieden
ms- #10, crowd around #10, King and Prime Minister exit
cu- radio
MCU- woman knitting
cu- radio
MCU - man smoking pipe, listening
cu -radio
LS - people digging ditches, trenches in parks of London, sandbags vs.,
ms - vs. - English children putting on gas masks, children crying
cu, vs. - children being evacuated to countryside, waving goodbye to mothers
MCU- searchlight, sound of air raid sirens , vs. people in/ living in tunnels
ms - Edward R. Murrow announces to America
LS - Big Ben and Parliament across Thames at daybreak
ms - lion statue, backlit
ms - French prime minister in trenches
vs. - Germany watch on Rhine, Sept- Dec - 1939
vs.- Blitzkrieg blasts
vs. - France falls in five weeks
ms - Hitler
June 22 1940, Adolph (named vegetarian) eating banquet
American radio broadcast over vs. Hitler shots in Paris
Nazi flag be put up around Paris, at Eiffel Tower
cafe's in Paris
American family listening to radio,
bird's eye view of Champs Elysse, LS - Arch de Triumph
vs. - nazis in Paris, French man crying

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