WRECKED TOWNS
Full length video
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Title: WRECKED TOWNS
Reference number: 8326
Date: 1946c
Director: [filmed by Richard H.S. Irvine]
Sound: silent
Original format: std. 8mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: Non-Fiction
Running time: 4.19 mins
Description:
Amateur footage of a bomb-damaged city in Germany at the end of World War II.
Shotlist:
[shot-listed from VHS - manual control track]
gvs of bomb-damaged town in Germany, houses reduced to rubble, wooden cart abandoned - gvs of building ruins, piles of rubble - shot of older man and woman pushing cart with salvaged materials - gvs of ruined church with scaffolding erected - gvs ruined buildings, army jeep in foreground, facade of ornate building with wall frieze - int and ext shots of damaged buildings, local people walking around amongst rubble, past blocked railway / tram track - gvs of ruined churches, shops, cathedral? - shots of people pushing carts around streets (2.49) blank (3.19) gvs of ruined buildings in town centre, woman reading notice-board outside building - gvs of ruined ints and exts of buildings including churches (4.19)