Coverage in Germany (Special Film Project SFP 186-35) -Can 9230

(This film is silent)
National Archives Series Identifier: 5768
Local Identifier: 18 SFP 9230
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Series: Motion Picture Films from the "Special Film Project" Program Series, ca. 1945 - ca. 1945
Record Group 18: Records of the Army Air Forces
This item av documents the time period: July 1945
Summary: Berlin meeting-General George Marshall, Field Marshall Montgomery and Air Marshall of the Royal Air Force (RAF). Scenes of bomb damage. Aerials of P-47s on bombing runs.
Shot List:
1) MS as General Marshall gets in staff car at Gatow Airport.
2) CS on C-54 "Argonaut IV" which carried highest ranking Army personnel to Berlin.
3) CS on Field Marshall Montgomery and Air Marshall of of British Air Force.
4) Closer shot on Field Marshall Montgomery.
5) MS crowds at Gatow Airport.
6) MS MPs lined up awaiting arrival of dignitaries as C-47 pulls into scene.
7) Closer shot as ranking British officers disembark from C-47.
8) MS Berlin civilians in bus waiting line.
9) CS on Berlin children in doorway.
10) MS Berlin civilians moving furniture from bomb damaged bldg.
11) MCS on bomb damage of Berlin church.
12) Closer shot on cement revetment at entrance of church.
13) MS bomb damage in Berlin.
14) Same--civilians walk thru scene.
15) Pan shot of P-47s awaiting takeoff on Napalm job from Ilsheim Airport.
16) MCS as P-47s take off--napalm bombs under wings.
17) Same.
18) Aerial shot--high--on German town as P-47 dives in--strafing town--fires are seen.
19) Aerial high shot as P-47s strafe town,
20) Same.
21) Aerial shot of P-47s in formation--Napalm tanks are mounted.
22) Aerial LS Berlin bomb damage--showing Brandenburg Arch--also Reichstag Bldg.
23) Aerial lower shot of Berlin bomb damage and Spee River.
24) Aerial low shot of Rheinmetall-Borsig plant.
25) Aerial circling shot of RheRheinmetall-Borsig factory.
26) Aerial low shot of industrial l area--Daimler-Benz factory-mfg. aerial parts and vehicles.
27) Aerial circling shot of bomb damage of Berlin.
28) MCS as P-47s loaded with Napalm bombs takeoff.
29) Another angle of same.
30) Closer shot of same.
31) Aerial high shot on artillery flare near pillbox.
32) Aerial as Napalm hits pillbox on knoll.
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