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FRENCH WARTIME NEWSREELS 2 (2013) * with hard-encoded German and switchable English subtitles *

France has been defeated.  The period of hardship, humiliation --- and collaboration --- begins.  The newsreels on this DVD are all from Vichy and occupied France:


THE NEWS IN FRANCE FROM ACE (27 OCTOBER 1940):
  • An exhibition in the Petit Palais in Paris about Freemasonry
  • Cattle is rounded up to supplement rationing needs in Paris
  • Transportation by bus becomes popular in occupied Paris
  • Bus engines are modified to run on natural gas
  • Plain designs and Ersatz-materials are used for new Parisian fashions
  • The British re-open the Burma Road, in spite of Japanese pressure
  • Louisiana is flooded after heavy rains
  • Traditional swimming competition in Barcelona
  • The Wehrmacht gives a concert in Madrid's main arena
  • Tangier is occupied by Spanish troops
  • Dobruja is awarded to Bulgaria in the Treaty of Craiova
  • Italian forces push into Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
  • The Italians take Kassala
  • German bombers take off for England
 

Total Time: 15 Minutes. In French with hard-encoded, German subtitles and switchable English subtitles. Very good quality.

 
 
THE NEWS IN FRANCE FROM PATHE (27 OCTOBER 1940):
  • Severe flooding in Roussillon
  • Frenchmen, Germans and Italians attend the funeral of three officers -- one from each country -- who died in a plane crash together
  • General Weygand is named head of French forces in North Africa
  • The British bomb Dakar
  • Former POWs return to Vichy
 
Total Time: 5 Minutes. In French with hard-encoded, German subtitles and switchable English subtitles. Excellent quality; some pixellization
 

 
FRANCE ACTUALITES  (12 FEBRUARY 1941):
  • Bicycle taxis replace motorized ones in Paris
  • France puts out a new stamp with the image of Marshal Petain
  • 3,200 doctors and medics are released from POW camps by the Germans
  • 14 to 17 year old unemployed boys are sent to camps to learn a skill
  • Mountain troops in training
  • Admiral Darlan is appointed vice president of the Council of Ministers
  • Marshal Petain meets General Franco at Montpellier
 
Total Time: 13 Minutes. In French with German voice-over and switchable English subtitles. Very good quality with some pixellization.
 
 
THE NEWS IN FRANCE FROM ACE (02 JUNE 1942):
  • A million city children were able to go on vacation in the countryside
  • The Crusade for Clean Air begins
  • The 15th Imperial Games of French and colonial youth
  • Physical education final exam at the Parisian Academy
  • Opening of the German technical exhibition in Lisbon
  • Chandra Bose arrives at the Fuhrerhauptquartier
  • With the Wehrmacht at the Arctic Circle
  • The latest news about the Battle of Kerch
  • The conquest of Manila by the Japanese
 
Total Time: 15 Minutes. In French with hard-encoded, German subtitles and switchable English subtitles. Very good quality with some softness.  Audio inconsistencies.
 
 
FRANCE ACTUALITES  (04 JULY 1942):
  • Soccer tournament in Madrid
  • French swimming championship in Lyon
  • The Day of Youth in Valencia, Spain
  • The Rembrandt Prize for 1942 is given out in Holland
  • Dr. Goebbels opens the Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstelung in Munich
  • A Portuguese training ship for youth arrives in Casablanca
  • A riding competition in Budapest
  • 1942 - The Year of the Middle East
  • Defeat of all Soviet forces in the Don Bend
  • German troops advance towards Stalingrad
  • An overview of British-controlled India
 
Total Time: 14 Minutes. In French with hard-encoded, German subtitles and switchable English subtitles. Very good quality; some pixellization
 
 

THE NEWS IN FRANCE FROM ACE  (11 JULY 1942)
  • Governor General Chatel visits the Ben-Bedel dam in Algeria
  • A return to Mers El Kebir  (Oran)
  • The Day of the Navy in Rome
  • Bicycle race in Paris
  • Yearly feast of the Moorish Guard in Spain
  • German and Italian forces cross the ridge at Halfaya
  • Tobruk falls
  • Sevastopol is taken
  • A French commission inspects a camp for French fighters in the USSR
  • The Fuhrer receives Marshal Mannerheim
  • The Furher receives Lieutenant Marseille
  • The 2000th volunteer leaves to work in Germany
  • The harvest is worked by unemployed youth in France
 
Total Time: 19 Minutes. In French with German voice-over and switchable English subtitles. Very good quality with pixellization and softness.  Audio inconsistencies.
 
FRANCE ACTUALITES  (29 AUGUST 1942):
  • The Battle of Stalingrad begins
  • German troops cut the rail line between Moscow and Stalingrad
  • German troops try to put out oil well fires started by withdrawing Soviet troops in the Caucasus
  • Caucasian militia keep order in Pyatigorsk
  • German mountain troops climb Mt. Elbrus
  • Royal regatta competition on the Grand Canal in Venice
  • The Danish royal pair visit the "Day of Sports" events
  • Rouen is bombed by the Anglo-Americans
 
Total Time: 14 Minutes. In French with hard-encoded, German subtitles and switchable English subtitles. Very good quality with some softness. Pixellization.
 
 
FRANCE ACTUALITES (03 October1942):
  • Boxing match between Cerdan and Ferrer
  • Creating vaccines from snake venom
  • Loire castles are opened to house children, whose parents were killed in Allied air raids
  • An appeal to turn in old clothing for POWs in Germany
  • Large companies in France are called upon to open collective farms and share the food with their workers
  • Two more metro lines are opened up in Paris
  • The Winterhilfswerk campaign begins in Germany
  • A Japanese submarine arrives at a German naval base on the Atlantic
  • Italian freight cars and locomotives are shipped to Tobruk
  • German planes bomb Murmansk
  • German troops conquer the southern section of Stalingrad
  • The Luftwaffe carpet bombs Stalingrad
  • A Soviet tank division attacks the Germans at Rzhev
  • The Japanese take Sumatra
  • Danish Waffen-SS volunteers return home from the Eastern Front
  • Marshal Petain visits Avignon
 
Total Time: 25 Minutes. In French with hard-encoded, German subtitles and switchable English subtitles. Unsharp quality with some softness. Pixellization.
 
TOTAL DURATION OF DVD-R:  120 MINUTES
 
 

PLEASE NOTE THAT SWITCHABLE (SOFT) SUBTITLES WILL NOT SHOW UP WHEN VIEWING THE SAMPLE BELOW.  IF YOU SEE SUBTITLES, THEN THEY ARE HARD-ENCODED (meaning, they cannot be turned off when viewing the film):

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