WINTER GRIPS WESTERN FRONT
1944 · National Archives and Records Administration (via FedFlix)
Finding Not asserted
Not asserted: the record does not name the creating body; its local identifier places it in NARA record group 208 (Office of War Information), a federal agency's records, which is evidence of federal origin but not proof of authorship, since agencies also filed acquired and captured footage (it belongs to the series 'Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels', which may hold captured or acquired footage as well as government productions).
The record does not name a federal creating body, or names one alongside a private producer, a state body or a government corporation. Such a film may well be a government work, but this registry only says so when the record does.
- Creating body, as recorded
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- National Archives Identifier
- 39154 (local identifier 208-UN-1036)
- Internet Archive item
- gov.archives.arc.39154 (uploader's licence mark: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Flags
- no-creator, record-group-federal
The record
The Internet Archive item's description, as transcribed by the uploader from the source archive's record. Check it against the National Archives catalog entry linked above.
National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39154, LI 208-UN-1036 - WINTER GRIPS WESTERN FRONT - DVD Copied by Ann Galloway. Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945. Part 1, military equipment slides on icy roads as units of the 7th Army advance. Tanks bombard a town held by German troops. Part 2 shows the funeral of Adm. Sir Bertram Ramsey. Shows Ramsey with Gen. Montgomery in Africa and with Gen. Eisenhower planning the invasion of Normandy. Part 3, victory salvos are fired in Moscow to celebrate the liberation of Poland. Shows Hitler and German troops in Poland in 1939 and the final surrender to Germany. Shows Stalin and Russian generals. Part 4, U.S. planes bomb Germany. Shows many German fighters being shot down by aerial gunners.