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Kriegsfliger Am Der Westfront : Aufnahmen Aus Dem Weltkrieg = Pilots On the Western Front : Scenes from the World War

Item number (ISN):

168449

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1940

Item number (ISN):

168449

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

FRANKS, Robert J.

Accession:

1973-0246

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1940

Release date:

1940

Production company:

RWU : Reichsanstalt Fur Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht

Description:

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Compilation film of German fliers and planes on the Western Front, 1916-1918. Line of Aviatik CIIs taking off. The pilot and observer of an Aviatik CV (DFW?), with a prominent skull-and-crossbones design on its side, prepare for a sortie and take off. The plane is shown "in flight". The observer takes photographs, uses his machinegun and drops a bomb by hand on the enemy below. The plane in flight resembles a LVG CII. On the ground a Gotha GII is bombed up and takes off. It flies a bombing mission, hitting oil tanks on the ground which burst into flames. The plane in flight is an Italian Caproni CIII. A portrait shot of Max Immelmann. Oswald Boelcke with pilots of Jagdstaffel 2. Baron Manfred von Richthofen with the pilots of Jagdgeschwader 1, with his Great Dane Moritz, and joking with his father, Major Albrecht von Richthofen. Von Richthofen prepares for a sortie in his Fokker Drl, putting on his flying clothes while his mechanics check the engine. He briefs his pilots with a map and then takes off with them. Von Richthofen inspects the wreck of one of the aircraft he has shot down. He talks with an uninjured British pilot he has shot down. At a troop review near Courtai in August 1917, von Richthofen (his head bandaged after a head wound) shakes hands with Kaiser Wilhelm and General von Hoeppner, commander of the German Army Air Service. Hermann Goering, who replace von Richthofen as commander of the Jagdgeschwader, is shown by himself, with his pilots, and with his close friend Bruno Loerzer, commander of Jagdstaffel 11. A lorry-mounted German 77mm anti-aircraft gun fires at the British. A line of Fokker DVIIs takes off. An observer bales out of an observation balloon by parachute as the balloon is shot down in flames. A French Nieuport burns on the ground as a Fokker DVII taxis past it. Goering, in his plane's cockpit, removes his flying helmet after a sortie. <17mn>

Language:

Silent with German intertitles

Notes:

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1. Description from the Imperial War Museum Catalogue Volume 1, IWM 1004.~2. Parallel title is the literal translation.~3. The original copyright owner, RWU, is probably the East German state.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

114470

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8308-0064

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

159556

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-3803

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

159557

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7611-0509

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

7301-3803

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

159558

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7611-0510

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

7611-0509

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

159559

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7808-0246

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

7611-0509

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

159560

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8006-0068

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

7611-0509

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8308-0064

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Original copyright owner: RWU.~Copyright owner: Reichsanstalt Fur Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions

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