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Liberation of Paris

Item number (ISN):

196143

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

196143

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

COLWELL, Wayne

Accession:

1973-0039

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1945

Production credit:

writer/editing, Pierre Schaeffer; narrator, Orson Welles; Emlen Etting

Sponsor:

Franco-American Cultural Exchange Inc.

Description:

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Recorded documentary narrated by Orson Welles and Emlen Etting.~This documentary includes: a poem read in French by Paul Eluard, poet; the song "Complainte des Partisans" sung in French by Anne Marly, March 1944; the poem "La Marsellaise" read in French by Pierre Schaeffer; an interview in French by Georges Bidault, Foreign Minister of the Provisional French government, 23 August 1944; a telephone conservation in French between Paul Eluard, poet, and Pierre Schaeffer, Acting Chief of the Paris Underground Radio station, 24 August 1944; extract of the first Free French broadcast interrupted by an announcement in German, 24 August 1944; a speech in French by Georges Bidault, Foreign Minister of the Provisional French government, 25 August 1944; a speech in French by General Charles de Gaulle, Head of the Provisional French government, 25 August 1944; interviews in French of unidentified Parisiens by Emlen Etting, BBC reporter, 25 August 1944; a speech in French by Maurice Shumann, reporter, 25 August 1944; reports by unidentified radio reporters, 26 August 1944; a talk in French by General Charles de Gaulle, Head of the Provisional French government, September 1944; and a speech by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces, 4 September 1944. <28mn>

Language:

English / Français

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1. Pressed by ASCH Records.

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Vault ISN:

436115

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C00185

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

47:00

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

162203

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C08535

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

C00185
1981-0111/080
1989-0169/0036
1989-0169/0037

Status:

MASTER
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