Signal Corps cameramen; DPs in street

Identifier
irn1003057
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.541.1
  • RG-60.3581
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
  • Byars (Camera Operator)
  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)

Scope and Content

(LIB 6865) Signal Corps Cameramen, Germany, March/April 1945. LSs, camera team jeeps assembled in year with cameramen repairing tires and tuning motors. MLS, two cameramen discuss their Speed Graphic cameras. Cameramen check map in front of HQ. MS, cameraman with Eyemo shooting infantry coming across field. MLSs, CU, still cameraman with Speed Graphic kneels behind smoking enemy armored vehicle to take pictures. MLS, still cameraman taking pictures of displaced persons in street. MSs, CUs, Sgt loads his Speed Graphic, writes captions as he kneels in rubble at Heilbronn. MSs, Lt switches lenses on Eyemo and shoots from rubble. SEQ: Combat camera team returns after day's shooting and unpacks film before turning it in.

Subjects

  • JEEPS
  • GERMANY
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
  • MILITARY VEHICLES
  • DISPLACED PERSONS (DP)
  • CAMERA OPERATORS
  • CAMERAS
  • RUINS
  • STREETS
  • SMOKE

Places

  • , Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Unedited.
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