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Madrid fortifies and civilians evacuate during the Spanish Civil War
Scene opens showing the fly leaf of the book Don Quixote, De La Mancha. A hand flips to another illustrated page. Then camera focuses on statues of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza on the memorial to author, Cervantes, by sculptor Lorenzo Coullaut Valera, on the Plaza Espana, in Madrid. Next is shown a building partially destroyed by bomb shelling. Citizens of Madrid are seen working to place protective walls around important monuments and buildings in the city. Masons work on the reinforcing walls, while citizens are seen busily going about their affairs in background. Several soldiers march into a guarded fortified area. A truck drives on a street, past a woman and small children sitting on some rubble. A streetcar moves along a street along with a horse-drawn covered wagon, and pedestrians, making their way past a long masonry protective wall. Two armed Republican soldiers ride on the roof of a bus. A Red Cross flag hangs beneath a Metro sign, above steps leading down into the subway. A long line of people waiting to buy vegetables at a small store. Masking tape crisscrossing the window of a shop to help proctect it. Pedestrians filling the sidewalks of a street walled by tall apartment buildings and shops. Some rubble in the street from rebel Nationalist shelling. A policeman armed with a rifle, directing pedestrians to move along. The covered body of a civilian lying amidst rubble from shelling, on a sidewalk. A Municipal Services truck pulling up to the spot. The city workers place the body in a wooden coffin and put it into their truck. A large poster urges all civlians to evacuate Madrid. View from moving vehicle of huge crowds of civilians on the sidewalks. A horse-drawn wagon, loaded down with household goods, moves along the street. Women carry bedsprings past stone bunkers. People standing about, with bundles of personal belongings, apparently waiting for transport of some sort. Women and children, with their belongings, being helped aboard a truck. The truck driving away.
Farmers work on irrigation project in midst of the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War. Map of Madrid and road to Valencia, showing Aganda bridge across Jarama River, where Nationalists attack from their front lines. Republican troops being mustered in village square to proceed south and counterattack. Closeups of some of the soldiers. Scene shifts to farmers working on an irrigations project. They tamp down the ground and carry wooden sections of sluice that they connect together to carry irrigation water. View of a farmer walking along the newly erected sluice, with river in the background.
Government reinforcements of troops and tanks move to counterattack during the Spanish Civil War.
The Spanish Civil War. Republican (Government) soldiers marching through a village on their way to bolster defenses against Nationalist (Rebel) attacks near the Jarama river. A Renault FT light tank driving out of a Republican Army post. More views of Republican troops on the move through a village, on their way to the front. The troops arriving on the Valencia Road near the Jarama river. The troops climbing from their trucks and taking up positions. Seven Russian BT tanks gathered at edge of a cultivated field. They move forward toward the front lines. Closeup of a Russian T-26 tank, and troops marching along a road toward the front. A Russian BT tank followed by a T-26 tank. Two Russian BT tanks moving forward along with troops. The Republican infantry moving across fields in squads. Russian BT Tanks advancing across the fields and climbing a hill. Closeup of a T-26 tank and a soldier on a motorcycle. A T-26 tank charging across a field near a high hill.
Spanish Revolt. War damaged buildings. Soldiers move heavy artillery.
Early in Spanish Civil War. A sign board reads 'Somosierra, Altitude 1444ms'. Spanish soldiers move heavy camouflaged artillery on trucks along a road. Damaged fuselage of an airplane tied on a truck. Burned out vehicles. War damaged buildings with broken windows and walls. An officer looks through binoculars. Officers consult a map.
British steamship 'Galician' is stopped at sea by German cruiser off the Canary Islands, in World War I
Slate reads: "The Union Castle Steamship, 'Galician' from Capetown to Southhampton, was on August 15th, when off Teneriffe, signalled to stop by the German Cruiser, 'Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse.' Next slate reads: "The 'Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,' had been transformed from a liner, whilst at sea, six heavy guns and 24 machine guns being mounted." A brief view from the "Galician" of the German four-stacker auxiliary cruiser, "Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse." The next slate reads: "Bearing down on the 'Galician' at a speed of 24 knots, the cruiser signalled to the liner to 'Heave To.' The marconi operator sent out the 'S.O.S.' distress signal and the cruiser ordered 'Cease communication or we will sink you." Two officers photographed on deck of the "Galician." View of the Cruiser near the "Galician." Boat carrying German boarding party arrives at the ship and they climb the ladder to board. A German sailor seen aloft at the "Galician's" mast, disabling her marconi wireless antenna. A torn white ensign (missing a canton) flies from the mast. Captain and officers of the "Galician" pose for photographer (marconi operator). Slate lists British military personnel aboard, who were taken as prisoners of war. One of them is photographed. The German boarding party leaves the ship taking their prisoners with them. The German Cruiser seen departing. Civilian passengers and crew aboard the "Galician," pose celebrating their relative good fortune.
