Nuclear Vault | Advance Into Poland (1947) @nuclearvault | Uploaded September 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 minute ago.
Reel 1: German assault troops land on river edge and advance rapidly through city streets. LS, bombed buildings explode as soldiers move forward along streets. HS, harbor. MCU, CU, heavy artillery fire. Telescopic view of area which is being shelled. LS, battleship in harbor fires directly upon port city. MS, civilians of Poland exit from shelters. Travel shot, troops and mobilized equipment move through streets and over bridges. Adolph Hitler in car rides through streets and is saluted by German soldiers. German soldiers rush forward, surround car and greet Hitler and high command. Hitler and officials move into encampment area and are served from mobile kitchens. Goering looks over map at conference table. Hitler is seated near train window as Goering and other high officials hold conference. Animated map battle positions in Poland. Cavalry and infantry troops of conquered Polish army line up, turn in their rifles and equipment. CU, rifles, machine guns, helmets all neatly stacked. VS, damaged Polish equipment. AV, area where equipment was turned over to German army. Pan, area where thousands of Polish soldiers await orders from German high command. LS, Polish soldiers are marched along roadway. CU, legs of marching Polish soldiers. VS, advance of German army into Poland.
Reel 2: Animated map shows battle positions of German Army as it goes deeper into heart of Poland. Adolph Hitler stands at side of road as German soldiers march past in their advance into Poland. Hitler examines map of advance. Troops on horse-drawn wagons advance into city. Smoke from burning buildings lies heavy along street as infantrymen make their way forward. Pan, destroyed area as fires rage within dwellings. VS, German troops move forward on horse-drawn vehicles. Soldiers and horses rest along roadway and field. Men clean their equipment and perform personal chores before moving forward. VS, horse-drawn vehicles, tanks, andequipment advance through wooded area, town and country roads. German general congratulates troops upon their entry into Poland.
Reel 3: Pan, destroyed bridges over Wisla River. VS, reconstruction of bridges and crossing of bridges by German cavalry. Tanks and trucks ford river at lowest point. CU, propellers of HE-111 in motion, HE- 111s in flight on photographic mission of railroad station and military objects. CU, wheel of plane as it touches down on grass runway. Film is removed from plane, taken to mobile processing laboratory where prints are examined for bombing raids. Pan, airfield as men unload bombs from crates and rush them to fighter planes. Planes taxi and take-off. Planes in flight. (Excellent GSAP footage). View from tail gunner position as plane strafes ground. AV, destroyed railroad cars, armored train. VS, destroyed Polish airfield. CU, destroyed planes and hangars.
Reel 4: MS, GU, LS, German troops as they march through Poland. Polish civilians greet German troops along country roads, and in city streets of Sadgrodzki. CU, burning houses. German troops march through burned out area, past destroyed German tank and truck. Polish nationalist prisoners are taken by Germans. Prisoners are lined up against building wall, searched by soldiers. Man is marched before Polish Nationalists and asked to point out men who murdered his brother. CU, one of the nationalists. Ext and Int view, cathedral. German soldiers exit from cathedral doorway. Animated map pinpoints advance into Poland. AV, bombing of Polish Corridor. Battleship Holstein in harbor fires at city of Danzig. CU, hundreds of empty shells used in bombardment of city. Huge. columns of black smoke can be seen rising in background. NS, tracer bullets as they race from battleship to land.
Reel 1: German assault troops land on river edge and advance rapidly through city streets. LS, bombed buildings explode as soldiers move forward along streets. HS, harbor. MCU, CU, heavy artillery fire. Telescopic view of area which is being shelled. LS, battleship in harbor fires directly upon port city. MS, civilians of Poland exit from shelters. Travel shot, troops and mobilized equipment move through streets and over bridges. Adolph Hitler in car rides through streets and is saluted by German soldiers. German soldiers rush forward, surround car and greet Hitler and high command. Hitler and officials move into encampment area and are served from mobile kitchens. Goering looks over map at conference table. Hitler is seated near train window as Goering and other high officials hold conference. Animated map battle positions in Poland. Cavalry and infantry troops of conquered Polish army line up, turn in their rifles and equipment. CU, rifles, machine guns, helmets all neatly stacked. VS, damaged Polish equipment. AV, area where equipment was turned over to German army. Pan, area where thousands of Polish soldiers await orders from German high command. LS, Polish soldiers are marched along roadway. CU, legs of marching Polish soldiers. VS, advance of German army into Poland.
Reel 2: Animated map shows battle positions of German Army as it goes deeper into heart of Poland. Adolph Hitler stands at side of road as German soldiers march past in their advance into Poland. Hitler examines map of advance. Troops on horse-drawn wagons advance into city. Smoke from burning buildings lies heavy along street as infantrymen make their way forward. Pan, destroyed area as fires rage within dwellings. VS, German troops move forward on horse-drawn vehicles. Soldiers and horses rest along roadway and field. Men clean their equipment and perform personal chores before moving forward. VS, horse-drawn vehicles, tanks, andequipment advance through wooded area, town and country roads. German general congratulates troops upon their entry into Poland.
Reel 3: Pan, destroyed bridges over Wisla River. VS, reconstruction of bridges and crossing of bridges by German cavalry. Tanks and trucks ford river at lowest point. CU, propellers of HE-111 in motion, HE- 111s in flight on photographic mission of railroad station and military objects. CU, wheel of plane as it touches down on grass runway. Film is removed from plane, taken to mobile processing laboratory where prints are examined for bombing raids. Pan, airfield as men unload bombs from crates and rush them to fighter planes. Planes taxi and take-off. Planes in flight. (Excellent GSAP footage). View from tail gunner position as plane strafes ground. AV, destroyed railroad cars, armored train. VS, destroyed Polish airfield. CU, destroyed planes and hangars.
Reel 4: MS, GU, LS, German troops as they march through Poland. Polish civilians greet German troops along country roads, and in city streets of Sadgrodzki. CU, burning houses. German troops march through burned out area, past destroyed German tank and truck. Polish nationalist prisoners are taken by Germans. Prisoners are lined up against building wall, searched by soldiers. Man is marched before Polish Nationalists and asked to point out men who murdered his brother. CU, one of the nationalists. Ext and Int view, cathedral. German soldiers exit from cathedral doorway. Animated map pinpoints advance into Poland. AV, bombing of Polish Corridor. Battleship Holstein in harbor fires at city of Danzig. CU, hundreds of empty shells used in bombardment of city. Huge. columns of black smoke can be seen rising in background. NS, tracer bullets as they race from battleship to land.
