us-005578-irn1004564
type: RecordSet
has beginning date: 1942-01-01
has end date: 1942-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had identifier: 2
has or had some members with language: Silent
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn1004564
scope and content: Views of Kharkiv, Ukraine city center. The buildings appear largely intact and the leaves are on the trees, indicating that it is summer, probably 1942. German soldiers travel the streets in vehicle and on foot and bicycle. View of a statue of Taras Shevchenko, which has been left standing. Nice street scenes. A German soldier walks past with a young local woman. 01:45:51 Bridge over a river, with German troops and vehicles heading in one direction and a couple of Russian peasant women heading the other. Troops in the field, which appears to be the southern steppe. German vehicles travel over a deeply rutted dirt/mud road. Tanks and other vehicles cross bridges. 01:48:40 Shot of a partially-derailed flat-bed train. More tanks and soldiers on foot move across the steppe. Soldiers operate communications equipment. German vehicle travel down a dusty road. Quick shot of a horse-drawn cart in a field by the side of the road. A Russian man stands beside the cart with his hands raised. 01:51:16 Nice CUs of soldiers' faces as they cross a river in a motorized raft. 01:52:34 CUs of Central Asian families out on the steppe. They are perhaps Tatars, Mongols, or Kalmyk. Their house appears to be made of clay. Women carry water in buckets on yokes, one cooks on an outdoor fire. A German soldier shows four men how to use a cigarette roller. Cut to a burning truck, and then to more soldiers marching across the steppe, escorting tanks. They move through a small village with a statue of Lenin. Smoke billows on the horizon. A soldier digs a foxhole. LS of soldiers moving across a field. Officers and other soldiers stand beside a tank. A group of Soviet civilians moves past the camera. Burning tanks and corpses. 01:57:12 German soldiers in an encampment. Quick shot of a group of them conferring. Shot of buildings rapidly consumed by flames and German soldiers marching Soviet POWs down a road. More scenes of another burning village. 01:56:31 Officers and other soldiers stand beside a t…
title: German advance into USSR; fighting at Stalingrad (?)