Eva Braun-Reel 3A of 8

(This film is silent)
National Archives Identifier: 43461
Local Identifier: 242.2
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/43461

From: Series: Motion Picture Films Confiscated From Foreign Countries And Sources, 1940 - 1944
Record Group 242: National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized

Scope and content: Scope and content: These are the private motion pictures of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, which were seized by the US Army, in Germany, in 1945. They were subsequently assembled into 8 reels by the US Army, from 28 reels of original camera rolls. The National Archives received this film in 1947, and in 2012 began the digital restoration process, using existing negative copies. The original 28 reels of footage was not originally compiled by the US Army in chronological or thematic order, and these reels reflect that original assembly from 1945. All 9 reels of the film may be viewed in the National Archives Catalog (https://catalog.archives.gov/id/43461).
Shot list: Color, Exterior shots from inside of airplane. Woman with two young children. General Josef (Sepp) Dietrich, on terrace reading documents, talking with children. Braun with family and others, views of town. B/W, interior, people talking on train, including Otto Dietrich, Dr Theodor Morrell, others, Color and B/W, shots of dogs, interiors and exteriors of Berghof, Braun family and others. Hitler with officials; group of men and women on terrace, walking on hill. Color. Title: "Im Tiergarten von Berlin." Berchtesgaden, shots of men and women on terrace, including Albert Speer, Karl Bodenschatz, and Otto Dietrich; children playing in water. Color, exterior scenes taken from ship, ice floating in water. B/W, interior, Hitler talking to group of children; shots of people with dogs, bird. B/W, exterior, Sepp Dietrich and Otto Dietrich walk down steps to waiting car. Color, Eva Braun, Ilse Braun, Dr. Karl Brandt, Anni Brandt, and Otto Guensche ski down hill. B/W, interior scenes of wedding ceremony of Gretl Braun and Hermann Fegelein; includes shots of Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann, and Joseph Goebbels . Exterior scenes, Braun with Herta Schnieder and family by lake. Interior, Hitler with children. Exterior and interior scenes with Braun and Scheniders.

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