ACCESS FOOTAGE

Description:

March 1945
Footage of C-47 and P-47 Aircraft; Wrecked German Equipment and Aircraft; American Vehicles and Tanks; American and French Soldiers; German Soldiers Resting

1) A. Formation of C-47s in flight.
2) A. another angle of same - 6 C-47s.
3) A. Closer shot C-47s in flight - over exposed.
4) A. MS as parachutes drop from C-47 - large masses of parachutes.
5) A. LS vast number of paratroopers and supplies as they descend to earth - this is the Wesel drop over the Rhine.
6) A. LS C-47s in flight.
7) CS on wrecked German equipment.
8) MS dead horses on road.
9) CS on dead horse and cart.
10) Pan shot of wrecked equipment and bomb damage.
11) CS on wrecked German jeep.
12) CS on German mobile field kitchen.
13) Pan shot from wrecked wagon over German countryside
14) CS on wrecked wagon.
15) Same.
16) CS wrecked German vehicle.
17) CS wrecked German tank.
18) MS dead horses in field.
19) MS wrecked German gun.
20) Pan shot of wrecked German equipment.
21) CS on breech of German gun which had been wrecked by Germans.
22) Pan shot of dead Germans and wrecked equipment.
23) CS on wrecked gun as GI wearing Nazi cap operates it.
24) CS on strafed shovel.
25) MS blown railroad bridge.
26) Pan shot wrecked marshalling yards.
27) MS wrecked German equipment.
28) MS wrecked German equipment - one vehicle smoking.
29) A. MS gliders in flight on tow line - good cloud bg.
30) A. MS two C-47s in flight.
31) A. MS C-47 pulling two gliders.
32) A. pan of gliders and C-47s.
33) A. Longer shot of C-47s and gliders.
34) A. shot as C-47s and gliders fly away from camera - very large concentration of planes.
35) CS on shepherd and sheep walking thru street in town.
36) Another angle of same.
37) Pan shot of American equipment -
38) CS as GI sweeps snow off windshield.
39) MS as funeral procession and French soldiers pass camera.
40) A. MS of P-47 in flight - snow capped mountains below.
41) A. MS P-47 in flight - sunset in bg.
42) MS as armorers load P-47 wing guns.
43) MS as bomb is loaded or jacked up on wing of P-47.
NG footage - due to light fog
44) MS on surrender flag hanging from German stores.
45) MS as American vehicles cross bridge.
46) Pan shot of blown railroad track.
47) Same.
48) MS German vehicles in field - wrecked.
49) CS on GI as he examines rocket ammunition.
50) Pan shot of wrecked German vehicles.
51) MS as pilots walk past camera - they wear Mae Wests.
52) Another angle - wing of plane in fg - pilots duck under it and climb in C-47.
53) MLS as pilots walk toward camera - one group breaking away to C-47 - to CS as they climb aboard C-47.
54) MS as crew members climb into C-47.
55) Same.
56) CS on pilot in cockpit of C-47.
57) CS on pilot as he puts on identification bracelet.
58) Int. shot of pilot in cockpit of C-47 as he pins up memento.
59) CS on pilot leaning out of cockpit window of C-47 - he has baby boots in hand.
60) MS as P-47s bellys in for landing - panning with it to crash.
61) CS as men inspect damaged plane.
62) CS on pilot.
63) LS shooting up to sky of vapor trails.
64) MS as P-47s fly - condensation trails in sky.
65) LS from ground of bomber formation leaving condensation trails.
66) Another angle as they fly away from camera - pan to length of trail.
67) Another angle of same.
68) Pan shot of Rhine and old castle.
69) Pan shot of German military cemetery.
70) MS as men line up at mess tent - P-47 taxis past camera in bg.
71) CS on hands assembling weekly rations.
72) MS of diver about to descend from German barge.
73) Shooting to sky of formation of 8 P-47s.
74) CS as supply parachute is tied on bomb rack of P-47
75) CS rear wheels of 6x6 spinning in mud.
76) MS of truck bogged down in mud - GIs trying to push it out.
77) Same for keep in mud.
78) Shooting to air as P-47 drops two parachutes of supplies.
79) CS on control officer as he speaks into phone.
80) MS as wrecked plane motor is pulled up by derrick - bomb damage in bg - it is loaded into truck.
81) Pan shot of wrecked German JU-88 plane.
82) MS as pilot inspects tail assembly of wrecked German plane - panning to wreckage.
83) CS as he sits in wrecked tail gunner compartment.