us-005578-irn1000829
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: irn1000829
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 anti-war propaganda film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information to educate US soldiers before going to France. Some scenes are staged. Reel 4: Shows French POWs in a German camp, the Free French fleet and air squadrons, scuttled French warships in Toulon, and advancing Allied troops. French troops are reviewed by de Gaulle and in Great Britain, and Russian and French underground fighters kill German sentries, blow up bridges, and ambush German motorcycle columns. Germans seize and execute French hostages.
title: American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France