Visual History - 1939

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1939

Complete Record: 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 intertitle "Distributed by Media - Division" em Hale, eu Claire, Wisconsin