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1944 DEFENCE / RUSSIA: World War 2: Leningrad siege ended
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3:05Now PlayingDate: 11th May 1944
Location: LENINGRAD, RUSSIA
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
RUSSIA: LENINGRAD (St Petersburg):
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GV Leningrad from sea.
LV pan large buildings in Leningrad.
GV ships in Neva Harbour.
LV naval guns on Russian battleship.
GV Neva Harbour and bridge - guns of battleship in f-d.
Six scenes Russian battleships firing guns in Neva Harbour.
SV long range gun firing.
GV long range guns firing.
SCU BV A.A. gun firing.
GV Neva Harbour and bridge - Naval guns of battleship firing in f-d.
LV naval guns firing on battleship.
GV guns firing in town.
SCU naval guns firing over town.
LV explosion.
GV guns firing in factory area.
TV guns firing in factory area.
SV naval guns firing.
SV explosion.
GV seven Russian fighters in formation.
LTV guns firing from armoured train.
SV gun firing from train.
SV large explosion.
LV long range gun firing.
SV explosion.
GV rockets firing.
GV pan anti-aircraft guns firing.
SV anti-aircraft guns firing.
GV Russian troops advancing with tanks across snow.
SV Russian mortar crew in trench loading gun with shell.
CU pulling rip cord.
SBV mortar gun firing.
GV explosion from mortar gun.
GV Russian infantry advancing across snow with tanks.
GV rocket guns firing.
GV burning village.
LV Russian tank entering burning village.
SBV Russian soldier firing A.A. gun in street.
GV German tank burning along road.
CU Russian soldier firing sub machine gun from window.
CU German corpse lying beside machinegun.
LV pan Russians running from building.
STV Russian firing small machinegun on wheels in street.
SCU dead German.
CU BV Russian soldier running from camera thru ruins.
SCU dead German.
SV German fortifications.
LTV pan dead Germans in trenches.
SV dead German lying beside shell cases.
LV wrecked German tanks.
CU wrecked German tanks.
LV Russian soldiers examining captured German gun.
SCU writing on gun "PROPERTY OF SOVIET GOVT". (Russian)
SV captured German tank intact.
CU German sign pan name on front of tank.
LV Russian soldier in snow clad woods.
SCU Lt. Gen. Batov and Gen. Rokossovsky and other officer looking at maps.
CU Lt. Gen. Batov and Gen. Rokossovsky.
GV battery of g uns firing from woods.
SBV gun firing.
Side view gun firing.
SCU away from camera infantry with machineguns in snow covered trenches.
LV infantry laying flat in snow two explosions in b-d.
CU Russian camouflaged in white material firing machinegun.
SCU soldier in trench being covered with snow from explosion.
LV battery of guns firing.
LV explosions soldiers laying flat in f-d in snow.
CU Russian with sub machinegun.
LV explosion.
GV Russian tanks advancing along side of woods.
LV tanks at speed thru woods past camera.
SV pan Russian tank at speed thru woods.
LV infantry advancing thru woods explosion in b-d.
CUBV soldier firing rifle in woods.
SCU side view another Russian soldier firing.
CU pan Russian tanks past camera.
GV Russian tanks advancing and firing.
LV infantry attacking thru woods.
GV infantry attacking thru woods.
LV soldiers running thru thick snow between ruined buildings.
LSV soldier in ruins firing machine gun.
SCU SV soldier firing rifle from ruins.
LV pan troops running forward thru town.
CU German tank burning.
CU dead German with helmet.
GV German prisoners being rounded up in snow.
Travel shot German prisoners marching towards and Russian soldiers march past in opposite direction.
STV Russian soldiers marching in columns towards singing song of Triumph as German prisoners march past in opposite direction.
Military - Active; Soviet Union; St Petersburg; World War II (Second World War; WWII)
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