You Can't Kill A City
You Can't Kill A City
You Can't Kill A City - From the Canadian Army Film Unit production team comes this testament concerning the rebuilding of the devastated village of Caen, France. Focus on allied forces are generally Canadian.
You Can't Kill A City
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You Can't Kill A City
WWII battle montage: MS/LS Allied soldiers firing a high-recoil howitzer. Low angle looking up at planes flying in formation. Air-to-air plane in flight. Aerial bombs hitting ground w/ explosions. Air-to-air plane dropping bombs. POV bombs dropping from plane. Aerial smoke & explosions as bombs hit targets. LS ground explosion. GV/MS soldiers arming & firing mortar. MSs tanks rolling into Cannes. GV tank firing. GVs destroyed buildings & fires still burning.
You Can't Kill A City
Caen villagers bedding down in safe-house / shelter: GV/MS elderly folks sleeping sitting up in room w/decorative columns. MS man in religious robes talking to elderly woman laying on the floor. MCU elderly woman laying on floor. MS elderly woman placing blanket over two sleeping boys before she lies down herself.
You Can't Kill A City
War-torn Caen in ruins (aftermath, destruction, good establishing shots void of people): TLSs of the destroyed buildings showing massive amounts of rubble & crushed foundations. GV church interior with unwanted skylights. MS pan religious stain glass window w/ missing panels. TLS church w/significant damage. TLS city in ruins, rubble everywhere.
You Can't Kill A City
War-torn Caen in ruins (aftermath, destruction, good establishing shots): TLS looking down corridor as woman sifts through the rubble. TLS destroyed city as a few villagers stand in the street to view the damage. GV two men in religious robes viewing the damage done to their church, much of the roof is now rubble on the ground. TLS people of Caen walking road between destroyed buildings.
You Can't Kill A City
Plan of Action & Relief Aid: Elevated view as Free France flag w/ Cross of Lorraine is raised on flag pole. Elevated view of Allied soldiers & civilians gathered in the street. CU profile elderly man. Low angle MS of Free France flag w/ Cross of Lorraine blowing in wind. MS sign hanging on outside of building reading "A.E.F. Civil Affairs Office" written in both in English & French (Allied Expeditionary Forces). Inside the A.E.F. Civil Affairs Office: MS/CU men working on plan to rebuild the city. Elevated view of military truck w/ mounted speakers in the street as civilians approach. Street level GV civilians gathered around military speaker truck, receiving printed leaflets on important emergency information. MS inside truck as man hands printed literature out window to anxious civilians. MCU elderly woman reading leaflet. MS/TLS man wearing a beret nailing and unrolling public announcement for locals to read.
You Can't Kill A City
Relief Food Distribution: CU French writing on chalkboard. GV school classroom converted into a temporary food distribution center, men & women behind table weigh & distribute food to locals. MCU French school marm writing on papers while sitting at a desk. MS/GV activity inside the temporary food distribution center. Exterior GV/MS/MCU locals w/ jugs & buckets lined up in front of street cleaning truck to receive fresh water. Exterior MS civilians receiving soup from communal pot. MS refugees sitting outside while eating from small bowls. MS man eating while seated on the ground.
You Can't Kill A City
Medical Aid, ID Check: GV building with huge whole in roof. Excellent MS, done in half silhouette, of two nurses carrying a stretcher from outside, through double doors and into a building. MS/ TLS nurses administering shots and taking blood from adult patients in a hospital. MS stream of civilian men & women filing into building. Interior MS/CU civilians having their identification papers reviewed. CU hand using rubber stamp on identification cards. MSs young adult men receiving rifles & supplies, appears to be part of the French Resistance movement.
You Can't Kill A City
Clean-up, Rebuild, Reconstruction, Canadian & British Engineers: GVs allied engineers using military issued earthmovers / bulldozers to clear massive amounts of rubble. Several TLS/MS allied military engineers working together to rebuild docks, railroads & bridges.
You Can't Kill A City
Rebuild, Reconstruction, Canadian & British Engineers: MS allied engineer repairing unit in power station. MS allied engineer cleaning telephone switchboard. MSs allied troops talking on telephone receivers. MCU hands of allied engineers connecting line on telephone switchboard. TLS/MS allied engineers working to seal open sewage trench. GV/MS male French civilians using pickaxes & shovels to dig out & repair water mains. TLS allied engineers working to repair city's water mains as French civilians walk by. Clean Water Relief: MS/CU civilian women filling glass bottles w/water at military sponsored water stations.
You Can't Kill A City
Rebuild, Reconstruction, French Civilians: GV/TLS/MS French civilian men salvaging building materials and working to repair buildings.
You Can't Kill A City
Relief Food Distribution: MS male Red Cross worker unloading bag of food supplies from back of truck. MCU man loading large food bag on back to carry. MS pan long line of civilian men & women standing outside waiting for store to open. TLS line of civilian men & women waiting for shop to open. MS male butcher sliding slabs of hooked meat in a meat locker. MS/MCU civilian men, women & children waiting in line outside butcher shop.
You Can't Kill A City
Street Activity, Liberated City, Civilians & Allied Military: LS city square bustling w/market activity as the local folks of Caen begin to return to some sense of normalcy. GV street scene as two civilian women walk past allied military police officer in FG, man in BG drives a horse drawn cart. MS vegetables for sale. GV female vender making a sales transaction w/woman. MS market activity w/ venders & shoppers. MCU elderly woman. TLS activity at market square, twenty-something folks in FG socialize. Nice TLS city intersection w/all sorts of activity, mothers in FG push babies in stroller as allied military vehicle passes behind them, midground more military vehicles roll by, BG pedestrians. GV two women standing outside shop talking as young child w/them looks into store window, allied military men walk & ride bicycles past camera in FG. TLS street activity w/ military vehicles & pedestrian military troops.
You Can't Kill A City
Liberated City: MS printing press in operation. MCU French newspaper coming off the line. MCU/MS press operator. Low angle MS hanging sign reading "Cafe du Palais". MS three men sitting in cafe drinking coffee. MS woman behind counter serving men drinks. MCU man drinking wine. MCU man drinking coffee. MS three men sitting in cafe drinking beverages.
You Can't Kill A City
Liberated City: LS men & boys fishing off of bridge, warn-torn buildings seen in BG. Rear MS men & boys leaning over bridge railing as they fish. MS hooked fish on line being reeled in. MCU profile boy reeling in fish. LS band performing in city square. MS/MCU men, women & children listening to band concert. MCU band member playing the flute. CU middle aged man is a short cigarette stogie in his mouth. MCU elderly man wearing a cap. MCU cute girl w/ blond curls looking up at camera w/a slight smile. LS band performing in city square.
You Can't Kill A City
Remembrance, Reflection, Prayer: GV pan up facade of cathedral. MS pan rows of simple crucifix grave markers, woman in black is seen paying respect. MS man placing flowers next to military memorial. MCU pan of items placed at the allied memorial. GV men & women entering church. MCU man & woman. Silhouetted MCU statue of the Virgin Mary. MCU young boy in Sunday's best. MCU young man w/hands clasped in prayer. Tilted low angle MS looking up at steeples of cathedral.
You Can't Kill A City
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