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Filming was very difficult and dangerous for resistors, whose first task was to resist, and so little genuine footage was taken until the last stages of the war, when Allied aid to resistance group...s was highly organised. therefore there are one or two items where the action has been simulated in some way. Some clips in this category come from rene Clement's famous film on the resistance effort of the French railway workers 'La bataille du rail', including the sequence where a real german armaments train was crashed soon after the liberation to reenact an event which happened soon before. There are here, however, many clips of resistors actually at work - painting slogans on walls in Poland, for instance, or printing underground newspapers in German occupied Russia, or the parade of a maquis batallion in the foothills of the French Alps - and near the end of resistance fighting the Germans retreating from Paris.
Filming was very difficult and dangerous for resistors, whose first task was to resist, and so little genuine footage was taken until the last stages of the war, when Allied aid to resistance group...s was highly organised. therefore there are one or two items where the action has been simulated in some way. Some clips in this category come from rene Clement's famous film on the resistance effort of the French railway workers 'La bataille du rail', including the sequence where a real german armaments train was crashed soon after the liberation to reenact an event which happened soon before. There are here, however, many clips of resistors actually at work - painting slogans on walls in Poland, for instance, or printing underground newspapers in German occupied Russia, or the parade of a maquis batallion in the foothills of the French Alps - and near the end of resistance fighting the Germans retreating from Paris.
| Module code and title: | A301, War and society |
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| Item code: | A301; 12 |
| First transmission date: | 25-07-1973 |
| Published: | 1973 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:30 |
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| Producer: | Edward Hayward |
| Contributor: | M.R.D Foot |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Armed insurrection; Film; Military intelligence; Paris; Resistance; Warsaw; World War II |
| Footage description: | Prof. Foot discusses the scarcity of film of resistance activities. Film of German Army parade in Paris, followed by sequence showing children in Warsaw trying to smuggle carrots into the ghetto. Prof.Foot describes the principal activities of resistance workers. Film illustrating activities of the resistance is shown; the gathering of intelligence. Sequence shown is from "La bataille du rail". Intelligence gathering on the Eastern front; a sequence from the Russian film "The Partisans" is shown. Prof. Foot discusses further the gathering of intelligence and its transmission to the allies. Prof. Foot goes on to consider the organization of escapes as yet another activity of the resistance. A sequence from the "Bataille de rail" is shown, followed by film of street celebrations after liberation. Prof. Foot now considers another activity of resistance groups, the maintenance of morale by propaganda. Film clips showing propaganda activities by Frenchmen, Russians and Poles are screened, some of which sequences are simulated. Prof. Foot now turns his attention to sabotage by resistance groups. Sequence from the simulated film "La bataille du rail". Prof. Foot now considers the supply of aid to resistance workers by the allies. Film of packing containers for parachute drops and the dropitself is shown. The question of the secret army, its formation etc. is now considered. Prof.Foot describes their origin (i.e. the secret armies) and introduces film on the French and Yugoslav partisan forces; sequences are from "La liberation au jura francais" and "The nine hundred". Prof.Foot describes the final aim of resistance, armed insurrection. Film of the fighting in Paris and Belgrade is shown. Shots of de Gaulle.;This programme includes sequences from -- Bataille du Rail -- La liberation au jura francais -- The nine hundred. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/70818 |
| Production number: | 00521_3312 |
| Videofinder number: | 610 |
| Available to public: | no |
