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Madrid-Barcelona Express train derailed killing 30 and injuring 60.
View of train wreck site where Express train derailed and plunged down steep embankment in Catalonia, Spain. The event occurred on the Barcelona-Valencia railway line between Mora La Nueva and Els Guiamets. Reportedly, 40 persons were killed and 60 injured in the tragedy. Views of the fallen train and cars. Workmen repair track high above on the railroad bed. Communist sabotage is blamed
Damaged buildings and wrecked cars in Madrid after aerial bombings during the Spanish Civil War.
The Spanish Civil War. Loyalist troops parade in Madrid. Men and women gathered on the streets. Women march in streets. Aftermath of aerial bombing on Madrid. Damaged buildings. Damaged cars. Rubble spread on ground.
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.
Various crops in fields in Spanish countryside
Gates of a agricultural training center in Spain. A church in Spain. Crops like wheat, corn, capsicum and sunflowers in fields and farms in Spanish countryside. Women pick cotton flowers in a field.
Scenes of Spanish Civil War in 1937
Scenes of Spanish civil war. Map depicts road from Madrid to village of Fuenteduena (aka Fuentiduena), and surrounding area. Towns of Aranjuez and Arganda, as well as the Tagus River are shown.Arrow points to spot on Jarama River, 25 miles from Fuenteduena. Republican soldiers climb a hill. They organize supplies and ammunition at a defensive position in the hillside. Several walk silhouetted against the sky as sound of machine gun fire is heard in background. Repubican troops hunkered down in grass, discussing the situation. Closeup of two in conversation. Change of scene show soldier using field radio to communicate. Glimpse of farmland at village of Fuenteduena. Soldiers using periscopic binoculars to view battlefield. Others carrying ammunition and a gun crew firing a field artillery piece. Spanish Republican officer conversing with others on a hill overlooking orchard below and battlefield beyond. More firing of artillery piece.
Views of Republican Army forces at the front lines during the Spanish Civil War.
Animated map shows the front line of battle, between Republican and Nationalist forces, curving North from Aranjuez, towards Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War. View from hilltop of shells exploding in distance. Closeup of Republican trenches and soldiers taking doors from a town, to reinforce them. The troops installing the doors in the sides of the trenches. Troops carrying supplies and gathering together for a meal behind a protecting hill. Soldiers eating and reading posted information and sharing newspapers inside their fortified positions. A soldier climbs steps into a truck equipped as a traveling barber shop, where he gets a shave and haircut. The mobile barbershop moves on to another location. A camouflaged military vehicle tows a huge loudspeaker out the gates of of a Republican army post. It drives to the front lines, where it broadcasts music for the Republican army troops. View inside the control trailer where the operator places a vinyl record album on a phonograph player. Sound of the broadcast transmitted in the area. Troops in trenches listening as they man their positions and maintain their weapons. An instructor reviews information about their weapons with a group of soldiers, who had little prior experience with firearms. These new recruits are being taught how to disassemble and reassemble a rifle.
