Hitler moves war to northern end of the Western Front, invading Belgium and the Netherlands during World War II

Title cards: "Total War?", "With An Analysis by George Fielding Eliot" / squadrons of German warplanes fly over in formation / plane engine viewed from cockpit / tail gunner in glass tail shooting / aerial of ground / view from plane of another bomber dropping bombs / ground level explosion / biplane drops bomb / explosion on ground // Holland: farm land flooded from open dikes, pan to freight train / 2 Dutch soldiers stand in trench near flooded field / barbed wire fence in flooded field // Adolf Hitler and two generals look at map spread on table / German planes fly over / tank on road / German warships enter harbor / Queen Wilhelmina reviews troops / bicycle corps rolls past / windmill in countryside, soldier in trench nearby / soldier with machine gun guards river / barrel of camouflage artillery gun, it fires / German planes in formation / planes strafing // Belgium: troops marching with bayonets / King Leopold III reviews troops from horseback / soldier blows bugle / troops run out of fort / VS raise & fire artillery guns / German planes fly in formation // England: R.A.F. pilots run to planes / pilot into cockpit / VS planes take off three wing to wing // France: bicycle troops ride across bridge into village / officers review troops as they march / English Army troops wearing rain ponchos march along road // Major George Fielding Eliot, wearing business suit, sits at desk / Note: film has nitrate deterioration
Title cards: "Total War?", "With An Analysis by George Fielding Eliot" / squadrons of German warplanes fly over in formation / plane engine viewed from cockpit / tail gunner in glass tail shooting / aerial of ground / view from plane of another bomber dropping bombs / ground level explosion / biplane drops bomb / explosion on ground // Holland: farm land flooded from open dikes, pan to freight train / 2 Dutch soldiers stand in trench near flooded field / barbed wire fence in flooded field // Adolf Hitler and two generals look at map spread on table / German planes fly over / tank on road / German warships enter harbor / Queen Wilhelmina reviews troops / bicycle corps rolls past / windmill in countryside, soldier in trench nearby / soldier with machine gun guards river / barrel of camouflage artillery gun, it fires / German planes in formation / planes strafing // Belgium: troops marching with bayonets / King Leopold III reviews troops from horseback / soldier blows bugle / troops run out of fort / VS raise & fire artillery guns / German planes fly in formation // England: R.A.F. pilots run to planes / pilot into cockpit / VS planes take off three wing to wing // France: bicycle troops ride across bridge into village / officers review troops as they march / English Army troops wearing rain ponchos march along road // Major George Fielding Eliot, wearing business suit, sits at desk / Note: film has nitrate deterioration
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Editorial #:
619545710
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
May 10, 1940
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released. More information
Clip length:
00:02:21:01
Location:
The Hague, Netherlands
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr002096_01_01.mov