Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Punching for the Dnieper

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
745A
Date Released
16 Sep 1943
Date submitted
10 Sep 1943
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 4
Section Title
Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Russian Front. DESCRIPTION: The Red Army is surging forward on a six hundred mile front, stretching from West of Orel down to the sea of Azov. The summer of 1943 has already seen the deepest penetrations yet made of the German 1941 line. SHOTLIST: Russian troops fighting in swamped meadows. Infantry race across country. Shot of barrage at night. Wrecked German equipment and abandoned. Firing artillery. Women of the medical corps across country and tending wounded. Troops forward through river. Infantry advance. Dead Nazis. Prisoners out of trench and marched through fields. Explosions. Fires. Elevating a searchlight. Russians with inflated rubber belts round them wade through river with rifles ‘at ready’.
Keywords
Health and medicine; Environment; Weapons; Fires; Death; Safety devices; War damage; Prisoners of war; Military
Footage sources
United States of America
Pathe
Card file number
43998
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
145
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Punching for the Dnieper', British Movietone News Issue No. 745A, 16 Sep 1943. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/12836 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)