Victory In The West - Sieg Im Westen Reel-5

Shot List:

r5:00:34:19:23

German tank formations advance in regimental columns; cut to scenes of Allied tanks attacking. MCU, two Allied tanks seen through driver's slit. Shot of Allied tank advancing, firing, one getting hit and exploding. MS, three German Junker Ju 87 or Stuka dive bombers peel off in dive; bombs hit the ground. MS, Allied tank on fire. LS, Allied tank regiment in attack formation. CU, French passenger car on fire, pan to Allied heavy tank being inspected by German soldiers. CU, German tank passes camera, one wounded soldier on tank. CU, German wounded being placed into motorcycle sidecar. CU, wooden sign First Aid. CU, German wounded being tended.

r5:00:35:59:28

Individual CUs, several wrecked Allied tanks; German soldiers talk to French tank crew; face of wounded French tank driver. CU, wrecked French tanks. CU, fallen French tank crew. CU of shell hole in Allied tank. CUs, wrecked British tanks in village street. CU wrecked Allied tank with bodies of tank crew. German motorcycles with side cars passing camera. German Mercedes-Benz personnel carriers towing 88mm dual purpose gun, and another other towing an anti-tank gun.

r5:00:37:10:26

Animation map of the Maginot Line extension. Scenes of anti-tank defenses using angled steel piles as anti-tank fortification which the press christened Asparagus Beds.

Scenes of the French Maginot Line. Sand table animation. Scenes of the underground interior of the Maginot Line. MS, air conditioning, machinery of communication center of Maginot Line. MS Ext, French Maginot Line troops in company formation move out of barracks in double quick step, walk past giant pill box. Operation of underground small Gauge Railroad inside the Maginot Line; munitions transport and storage, kitchen and soldiers making merry. Montage with superimposed legend Nous Vaincrons Parce Que Nous Sommes Les Plus Forts - We shall gain Victory because we are the stronger ones.

r5:00:39:25:25

Animation portrays that more than six hundred million human beings are on the French side. Montage of French colored troops and posters. Animation, German Colonel General V. Rundstedt's idea of surprise attack west of Namur and Brussels. CU, German Colonel Rundstedt with aide in front of large map. Animation, position of German armies of General V. Kluge, General List and General Busch and their break-throughs between Maubeuge France and Sedan crossing the Meuse River; rapid advance to the channel coast to reach Abbeville, France. German engineer troops build bridges across Meuse River under fire. German infantry moves rubber assault boats towards Meuse River; rubber boats cross River; German Signal Corps men lay wire; all under fire. German cavalry and infantry cross Meuse River. German tank crosses bridge.