France has been defeated. The period of hardship, humiliation --- and collaboration --- begins. The newsreels on this DVD are all from Vichy and occupied France:
THE NEWS IN FRANCE FROM ACE (27 OCTOBER 1940):
- An exhibition in the Petit Palais in Paris about Freemasonry
- Cattle is rounded up to supplement rationing needs in Paris
- Transportation by bus becomes popular in occupied Paris
- Bus engines are modified to run on natural gas
- Plain designs and Ersatz-materials are used for new Parisian fashions
- The British re-open the Burma Road, in spite of Japanese pressure
- Louisiana is flooded after heavy rains
- Traditional swimming competition in Barcelona
- The Wehrmacht gives a concert in Madrid's main arena
- Tangier is occupied by Spanish troops
- Dobruja is awarded to Bulgaria in the Treaty of Craiova
- Italian forces push into Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
- The Italians take Kassala
- German bombers take off for England
Total Time: 15 Minutes. In French with hard-encoded, German subtitles and switchable English subtitles. Very good quality.
THE NEWS IN FRANCE FROM PATHE (27 OCTOBER 1940):
- Severe flooding in Roussillon
- Frenchmen, Germans and Italians attend the funeral of three officers -- one from each country -- who died in a plane crash together
- General Weygand is named head of French forces in North Africa
- The British bomb Dakar
- Former POWs return to Vichy
Total Time: 5 Minutes. In French with hard-encoded, German subtitles and switchable English subtitles. Excellent quality; some pixellization
FRANCE ACTUALITES (12 FEBRUARY 1941):
Total Time: 13 Minutes. In French with German voice-over and switchable English subtitles. Very good quality with some pixellization.
THE NEWS IN FRANCE FROM ACE (02 JUNE 1942):
- A million city children were able to go on vacation in the countryside
- The Crusade for Clean Air begins
- The 15th Imperial Games of French and colonial youth
- Physical education final exam at the Parisian Academy
- Opening of the German technical exhibition in Lisbon
- Chandra Bose arrives at the Fuhrerhauptquartier
- With the Wehrmacht at the Arctic Circle
- The latest news about the Battle of Kerch
- The conquest of Manila by the Japanese
Total Time: 15 Minutes. In French with hard-encoded, German subtitles and switchable English subtitles. Very good quality with some softness. Audio inconsistencies.
FRANCE ACTUALITES (04 JULY 1942):
- Soccer tournament in Madrid
- French swimming championship in Lyon
- The Day of Youth in Valencia, Spain
- The Rembrandt Prize for 1942 is given out in Holland
- Dr. Goebbels opens the Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstelung in Munich
- A Portuguese training ship for youth arrives in Casablanca
- A riding competition in Budapest
- 1942 - The Year of the Middle East
- Defeat of all Soviet forces in the Don Bend
- German troops advance towards Stalingrad
- An overview of British-controlled India
Total Time: 14 Minutes. In French with hard-encoded, German subtitles and switchable English subtitles. Very good quality; some pixellization
THE NEWS IN FRANCE FROM ACE (11 JULY 1942)
Total Time: 19 Minutes. In French with German voice-over and switchable English subtitles. Very good quality with pixellization and softness. Audio inconsistencies.
FRANCE ACTUALITES (29 AUGUST 1942):
Total Time: 14 Minutes. In French with hard-encoded, German subtitles and switchable English subtitles. Very good quality with some softness. Pixellization.
FRANCE ACTUALITES (03 October1942):
Total Time: 25 Minutes. In French with hard-encoded, German subtitles and switchable English subtitles. Unsharp quality with some softness. Pixellization.
TOTAL DURATION OF DVD-R: 120 MINUTES
PLEASE NOTE THAT SWITCHABLE (SOFT) SUBTITLES WILL NOT SHOW UP WHEN VIEWING THE SAMPLE BELOW. IF YOU SEE SUBTITLES, THEN THEY ARE HARD-ENCODED (meaning, they cannot be turned off when viewing the film):