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Opposing forces engaged close to Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War
Animated map shows the front line of battle, between Republican and Nationalist forces, running West of Madrid from West Park through University City, during the Spanish Civil War. Camera pans across landscape, from a high vantage point, and then focuses on buildings of University City, where Nationalist forces have taken up positions in a palace with two pointed towers, and near a ruined clinical hospital. Republican troops are seen entering through a gate at the hospital, where the bearded Brigade Commander Jesús Martínez de Aragón is seen consulting with his staff. (Narrator notes that he died in the attack on the Casa del Campo soon after this scene was filmed.) Views of sandbagged buildings inside the hospital compound. The Brigade Commander is seen with some of his soldiers, while rebels are trying to move further into the clinic compound. His soldiers take up defensive positions inside clinic buildings, carrying heavy arms up the stairs. Republican defenders firing machine guns from inside the building, and moving through rubble to other positions. Views inside the clinic and sound of glass breaking. Continuous sound of machine gun fire. Two soldiers fire through a small hole in a concrete wall. View, from Republican defensive position, of a battle-scarred multistory building across the way. One of the soldiers writing a letter home (dated May 4, 1937). Another soldier rolls a cigarette.
The Spanish Earth. Views of drought-stricken areas of rural Spain
Documentary film titled 'The Spanish Earth' depicts drought conditions in rural Spain. Two Spanish farmers feeling the dry earth, breaking it in their hands. Men with mules moving in foreground, with miles of parched farmland and a city in background. Fields with what appears to be a line of clay chimney-like structures across the foothills, each rising about 10 feet from the ground. View of the village of Fuentiduena with two of these structures in the foreground. Smoke coming from one on a hillside. (Note: Narrator is Ernest Hemingway.)
Local people going about their routine lives in village of Fuentiduena, Spain
Documentary film depicts conditions during Spanish civil war among loyalist, Spain. Activities of people in Fuentiduena village. Men preparing bread for baking. War propaganda Posters on their wall. Women sweep a street. Man comes out of his house with a mule. Woman walks with a child. Women work outside their houses. Women lined up outside a house for having a bread. Men walk with mules and mule carts. Vehicle pass on the street. Trees along the sides of the street.
French, German and American ships off the coast of Alicante, Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
The Spanish Civil War. A French ship on guard off the coast of Alicante, Spain. The German battleship Wiesbaden and USS Kane off the coast of Alicante. USS Kane after being attacked by Spanish aircraft. United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull explains the American point of view about the attack.
Spanish people gathered during Buenaventura Durruti's funeral procession in Barcelona, Spain.
Spanish Anarchist leader Jose Buenaventura Durruti Dumange's funeral procession in Barcelona, Spain. Spanish people on the streets to accompany the cortège during its route to the Montjuïc Cemetery. Spanish soldiers carry Durruti's coffin. Women cry during the procession. It is estimated that some half a million mourners attended the funeral in Barcelona.
Farmers set up irrigation for fields in village of Fuentiduena , Spain, during civil war
Documentary film depicts conditions during Spanish civil war. Activities of people in Fuentiduena village. Farmers plow their fields using wooden plows and horses to pull them. A farmer sowing seed by hand. Farmers planning irrigation of dry fields. Men climb hill carrying picks and mattocks to cut irrigation ditches. They work cutting a ditch along a line laid out on the ground. A dog sits watching them. One farmer uses a wooden tool to tamp the base of the new irrigation channel. Men working at the river edge to connect the new irrigation ditch. Other farmers using picks to steer the water as it begins to flow into the fields. Artillery fire is heard in the background.
