us-005578-irn1000828
type: RecordSet
has beginning date: 1945-01-01
has end date: 1945-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had subject: 986
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn1000828
note: More film contributors/credits: Writers: Philip Dunne; Jean Renoir; Burgess Meredith Editors: Marcel Cohen; Maria Reyto; Jean Oser Music: Kurt Weill
scope and content: An American propaganda film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information to educate US soldiers before going to France. Some scenes are staged. Reel 3: French peasants hide their parachutes and a French priest (actor) hides the fliers and tells them of the French defeat. The fliers are secreted back across the English Channel. French soldiers retreat as the Germans advance. Gen. Petain calls for collaboration with Germany. General de Gaulle broadcasts a call for continued French resistance and speaks to French officers on a warship. Petain visits Hitler. Germans execute French hostages and send Frenchmen to Germany as slave laborers.
title: American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France