Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: The Nuremberg Verdicts

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
905
Date Released
7 Oct 1946
Date submitted
4 Oct 1946
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Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 3
Section Title
Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Nuremberg - the Verdicts - (Nuremberg Trial). DESCRIPTION: A military cordon was thrown around the Court House in Nuremberg as the hour for the verdict approached. The first to be sentenced was Goering and later Hess’s verdict was delivered in Russian. SHOTLIST: KS American guard closes door. Exteriors of the courthouse. American guards and sentries etc. Around the Courthouse, troops in tanks, armoured car, troops with fixed bayonets. Patrol in jeep. All armed. Interior shots of the Courtroom. Defendants walk downstairs covering their faces. Goering and Ribbentrop. Goering enters dock. Hess enters dock. Court ordered to stand as the Tribunal and Judges enter court. Pan from prosecutors to Judge Lawrence. Lawrence speaks on the crimes. MS Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop. Hess begins to move about in pain (his stomach). CU Hess. MS defendants as their names are called out and the charges read to them. Biddle reads charges against Ribbentrop. Birckett speaks on Goering. Court adjourns. Defendants in dock eating sandwiches. GV Court. Birckett speaks on Streicher. Birckett speaking. Shots of defendants. MS Schacht. MS von Papen, during shots of various defendants the charges are being read. Hans Fritsche, Schacht and von Papen shake hands with other defendants who have been found ‘not guilty’. Fritsche, Schacht and Papen during press meeting, talk and drinking. Exterior shots of Court. Newspapers being sold. Flags of the four Allies flying outside Court. Lawrence passing sentences - referring Russian objections to sentences.
Keywords
Politics and government; Occupied territories; Crime
Footage sources
Paramount Rota
Card file number
47573
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
401
Story extras:
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'Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: The Nuremberg Verdicts', British Movietone News Issue No. 905, 7 Oct 1946. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/14086 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)