| DORTAN: BADLY DAMAGED TOWN Item showing rebuilding of Dortan, town which was destroyed by Germans in 1944. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7823 |
| Catalog #: | 20029 | |
| Clip Number: | 20029-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 1371 D | |
| Timecode: | 01:07:30 - 01:09:05 | |
| Location: | Dortan, France | |
| Year Shot: | 1946 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | AGE GROUP/CHILDREN: School-age child AGE GROUP/CHILDREN: Studing / Learning DEMOLITION: Buildings EDUCATION & SCHOOLS: Classrooms EDUCATION & SCHOOLS: Elementary (Primary School) LOCATIONS/EUROPE: France OCCUPATIONS: Teacher / Professor RECREATION: Games, Chess WORLD WAR TWO, GENERAL: Afterword (Epilogue) WORLD WAR TWO, GENERAL: War Damage | |
| Description: | DORTAN: BADLY DAMAGED TOWN Item showing rebuilding of Dortan, town which was destroyed by Germans in 1944. Dortan, France. Various shots shells of buildings with rubble everywhere. MSs as unsafe walls are demolished by explosives, they collapse. GVs of crew clearing debris using axes, carts and wheelbarrows. Elevated LS pan of destroyed city and generic temporary housing compound. MS sign for "Dortan". Elevated GV of children walking in front door of wooden school house. Interior of schoolhouse were children sit at desks and the teacher walk among the rows. GV classroom with students at desk, boy at chalkboard writing and teacher standing at the front of the room. MS interior of woodworking shop were wood is being manipulated by a circular saw. MS man using grinding tool. MS young woman using electric sander. MS man carving with electric tool, shaving from the wood streams out. Nice shot of two men seated in the French countryside playing chess. CU of the chess board where moved are made. | |
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