Results: Stories
4 results found for '"Catania"' in Location.
Sicily: Latest
- Date released
- 2 Aug 1943
- Series name
- Pathe Gazette
- Issue no
- 43/61
- NoS ID
- 100045
- Story no
- 3 / 3
- Extras
- 1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list
8th Army nearing Catania. On the outskirts of Enna some opposition from Italian snipers. Food is handed out to the civilian population of Floridia. Sherman tanks rumble through the old streets of...
Fall of Catania
- Date released
- 12 Aug 1943
- Series name
- Pathe Gazette
- Issue no
- 43/64
- NoS ID
- 100054
- Story no
- 3 / 5
- Extras
- 1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list
Troops advancing through Catania. Engineers with mine detectors clearing stretch of road before bren gun carrier moves through. Some Sicilian civilians start to loot buildings that the Germans have evacuated...
Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin (by courtesy of the BBC): A Fascist Cringes
- Date released
- 6 Sep 1943
- Series name
- British Movietone News
- Issue no
- 744
- NoS ID
- 012823
- Story no
- 1 / 4
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: A Fascist Cringes. DESCRIPTION: Desario Birancati [sic] made plenty of noise when he was arrested in Catania. SHOTLIST: Desario Barancati - Fascist - is seen coming out of prison...
A Fallen Tyrant
- Date released
- 6 Sep 1943
- Series name
- Pathe Gazette
- Issue no
- 43/71
- NoS ID
- 100090
- Story no
- 5 / 5
- Extras
- 1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list
Desario Birancati, one of the most hated Fascists in Sicily, arrives at a former Fascist HQ in Catania to face interrogation by a military tribunal. He pleads and begs for mercy before being led away.