Motion Picture MP2016-5
Administrative Information
News film compilation of World War II footage ranging from about 1936 to 1941, depicting battles of the Allies against Axis forces in Ethiopia, Egypt, Albania, Greece, Sudan, Kenya, Libya, and India.
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Shot List
Intertitles are as follows:
-Pride and pomp when Rome-Berlin Axis pact is signed! [Benito Mussolini]
-Ethiopia invaded! Addis Ababa falls to Fascist might!
-Albania, across Adriatic Sea, is next goal of expanding Italian Dictator
-When France weakens…Italy declares war!
-Italian warships feel the force of British gunnery in Mediterranean!
-Anti-aircraft guns down a Fascist flier!
-Even in the water, his hands are raised in surrender!
-Il Duce pushes east into ancient Greece…
-Athenians cheer the news of victories!
-Greeks amaze world as they drive Italians back to Albania!
-Untold quantities of supplies and thousands of Fascist prisoners are captured!
-British General [Archibald] Wavell maps campaign to rout Mussolini’s troops from Sidi Baranni!(sic) [Sidi Barrani]
-Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Suez…Egypt…the Sudan and Kenya!
-In Ethiopia, Haile Selassie returns to rally his people to rebel against Fascist rule!
-South Africans join the coming offensive…Spahis, Sikhs, Poles, Czechs and Free French!
-General Wavell strikes!
-Italian equipment, supplies, planes and tanks are abandoned in frantic retreat!
-Many thousand more Italians surrender as Sollum and Capuzzo fall!
-At Bardia…Britain’s navy blasts the supply port…
-…as Wavell’s mixed forces storm through desert sands!
-Italy’s African empire crumbles!
-Britain sweeps west to Tobruk, Derna, Cyrene and Benghazi!
-Fascist planes that will never attack Suez!
-Armies that once proudly paraded before Il Duce’s eyes…
-...now wearily bow to their captors!
-In India, Fascist troops, repulsed by little Greece and British power, march to concentration camps!
-Prisoners in a mystic land…and a war-torn world…await the verdict of the future!
This News Parade newsreel was produced by Castle Films and edited by Eugene W. Castle.