us-005578-irn1001145
type: RecordSet
date: May 3-4, 1945, 1946 (used 10/46)
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
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has or had some members with language: Silent
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identifier: irn1001145
scope and content: "Revolt in Pragu" film (Czech government material). Several shots of Czech citizens in Prague tearing down German inscription and signs, May 3-4, 1945. Czechs hanging Allied flags from buildings. German military police setting up sub-machine guns in street, and German policeman walking in streets. Mob of Czech patriots dispersed by German police. MS Czech patriot on the air in seized radio station. Engineer at dials. Red Cross trucks in street. MS truckload of German police pass. Street fighting from barricaded building. Czechs armed with rifles. Wounded in street. Czech patriots using firehoses against Germans entrenched in cellars; also making barricades out of street paving blocks. Czechs armed with captured German stores. Other shots of street and rooftop fighting. Prague buildings on fire. Russian trucks/tanks entering Prague. Greeted wildly by populace. MS Edouard Benes arriving at Prague station, May 17, 1945. Welcoming committee. Benes deboarding train, greated by dignitaries. MS Czech soldiers at attention. Czech girls wave at Benes. Parade/triumphant processional in streets of Prague; Benes in car; populace/crowds wildly welcoming Benes. Car entering presidential palace (castle) between Guard of Honor and cheering people. Benes and wife waving from windows of castle to mobs of cheering Czechs.
title: March of Time -- outtakes --"Revolt in Pragu"; liberation; Benes returns (parade)