BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
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Scenes from Warsaw in 1939 showing bomb-damaged buildings and dead bodies together with 1943 Pictures of a Polish Armoured Division on manoeuvres in England.
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SLATE INFORMATION: WARSAW UNDER FIRE: PHOTOGRAPHED DURING THE SEIGE [SIC] OF WARSAW IN SEPTEMBER 1939.
POLAND: Warsaw:
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Caption: The Square Outside the Royal Castle
Square with monument and castle
Caption: One of the Main Streets:
Street with pedestrians and large building at end
Caption: A Street in the Centre of Warsaw
Bomb-damaged buildings and smoke
Caption: The Museum of Industry and Agriculture:
Bus and cars parked in street / Museum building
Caption: The Monument to Boguslawski - A pioneer of the Polish Theatre. In the background the National Theatre
Statue of Boguslawski / Various general views of museum exteriors and people along
Caption: A street leading to the theatre square
Street / Window in building / General views of large building (possibly theatre)
Caption: The Warsaw Town Hall
General views of Town Hall / Damage to Town Hall / Woman looking at dead body / Newly dug graves in graveyard / Gravediggers digging graves
Caption: The Polish Foreign Office / A Main Street in Warsaw
Man walking down street
Caption: The Hotel Angielski-Napoleon's Headquarters in 1812
GVs of Hotel Angielski with bomb damage / People along past rubble and debris in streets
Caption: Hotel Bristol
People waiting outside hotel including woman with suitcases and dog on top of luggage / Men (wearing suits and hats)
Caption: The Main Government Building: the Cabinet Office
Statue of lion (?) with missing head (damaged by bomb) / Government building with damaged roof / Damaged gate and entrance / Pedestrians along (seen through bars of gate)
Caption: A Fashionable Shopping Centre
People in street
Caption: The Polish Home Office
Polish Home Office building with statue outside / Rubble from bombings in street / Damaged building (block of flats)
Caption: A Warsaw Square
People gathered in square ** Poor quality film **
Caption: The USA Consulate and the Post Office Savings Bank Building
US Consulate showing bomb damage
Caption: The Lutheran Church
Church with severe bomb damage
Caption: The Chief Telegraph Office
GV building exterior with broken and missing windows / GVs damaged building and courtyard / Various GVs damaged buildings / Dead body being dug out of rubble / Men on mound of rubble PAN up to damaged building with missing walls / High angle shot of square / Building on fire /
ENGLAND:
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Various shots of Polish army lorries and tanks along country road / Tanks being camouflaged as Polish troops put tree branches across / GV country lane and camouflaged tanks / Camouflaged tank /
Background: Scenes from Warsaw in 1939 showing bomb-damaged buildings and dead bodies together with 1943 Pictures of a Polish Armoured Division on manoeuvres in England.
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Archive managed by: British Pathé
