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Spanish Civil War
DATE CONTENTS
12/12/1933 NEW REVOLT PUTS SPAIN IN TURMOIL. Zamora government acts to crush Red uprising as many die in election riots. Sub. 1 - Troops clash with police in tragic aftermath of history making vote supporting present regime.
04/04/1934 WAR CLOUDS OVER NORTH AFRICA. Spain's Foreign Legion in Morocco is reinforced as new revolt threatens.
05/05/1934 SPANISH RIDERS PERFORM FOR ZAMORA. Cavalry stages breath-taking demonstration of horsemanship at Madrid in honor of Republic's Chief of State.
10/06/1934 SPANISH WORKERS REVOLT. Various scenes of troops marching and riding through streets, shots of soldiers searching people, driving buses and street cars.
03/18/1936 POPULAR FRONT MEETING IN MADRID.
06/02/1936 GERMAN SOLDIERS WHO WERE KILLED ON DEUTSCHLAND IN SPANISH WATERS ARRIVE BACK IN GERMANY. Hitler laying wreath.
08/04/1936 ALL SPAIN TAKES UP ARMS IN CIVIL WAR. Women join men as revolt turns land into battlefield. Americans rescued. Sub. 1 - U.S. Ambassador Claude G. Bowers, at San Sebastian, declares he will stand by until all Americans are safe. Vivid scenes of refugees at Gibraltar, the French border, and the saving of U.S. tourists by Yankee warships.
08/04/1936 SPANISH CIVIL WAR MATERIAL. TANGIER AND GIBRALTAR.
09/06/1936 SPAIN'S COMMUNIST JOAN OF ARC, SENORA DOLORES IBURRURI (La Pasionaria) speaks in France hoping to get munitions, airplanes, etc.
09/10/1936 CIVIL WAR SCENES. Nationalist Headquarters - Gen. Mola leaving -troops marching - departing.
09/21/1936 THE EPIC SIEGE OF THE ALCAZAR! Shelled for 8 weeks, 1,700 in historic Spanish fort, prefer death to surrender!
09/28/1936 ALCAZAR DYNAMITED IN WAR HORROR. Battle for historic fortress reaches terrible climax as garrison defies death.
11/25/1936 COL. LOPEZ TIENDA DIRECTS OPERATIONS NEAR SAN MARTIN DE VALDIGLESIA.
12/11/1936 CIVIL WAR. REDS BOMB SUBURB OF MADRID. Nationalists pray for success. Civilians hug wall.
12/12/1936 HUMORISTS EXHIBIT PICTURES IN A PALACE OF VALENCIA. (Franco, Hitler, Mussolini, etc.)
12/12/1936 CIVIL WAR MADRID. People stand with raised fists around pit. Buildings in ruins. Firefighters.
12/12/1936 BRITISH AUTHORITIES AT GIBRALTAR STRENGHTEN DEFENSES DURING SPANISH CIVIL WAR.
12/12/1936 ITALIAN BLACK ARROW LEGION IN SPANISH CIVIL WAR.
12/16/1936 RUSSIAN SHIPS DEFY BLOCKADE. Barcelona rejoices as Soviet craft elude(s) the Spanish Insurgent's warships.
12/16/1936 Cuts and Outs. RUSSIAN SHIPS DEFY BLOCKADE. Barcelona rejoices as Soviet craft elude(s) the Spanish Insurgent's warships.
12/23/1936 MADRID UNDER SIEGE - GRIM DRAMA OF WAR! Latest films from Spain's capital depict scenes of terror as populace flees Insurgent's bombs. A heart rending document of war at its most frightful, with sudden death stalking a great city day and night.
12/23/1936 Cuts and Outs. MADRID UNDER SIEGE - GRIM DRAMA OF WAR! Latest films from Spain's capital depict scenes of terror as populace flees Insurgent's bombs.
12/30/1936 NATIONALIST OUTDOOR MASS. Male and female Falangists - Archbishop - market scenes - peasants.
12/30/1936 CIVIL WAR SCENES. Madrid - man washing face in open trench near dead mule - Estacion del Norte damaged - woman searching through ruins - troops - staged shots - University City.
02/03/1937 GERMAN WOUNDED REMITTING FLAG TO NEW GERMAN COLUMN OF VOLUNTEERS LEAVING FOR FRONT, SPAIN.
03/03/1937 LIFE GOES ON IN WAR TORN SPAIN. Desperate conflict raging but behind the lines it's business as usual.
03/10/1937 SPANISH REBELS HAIL ITALIAN RECOGNITION! Generalissimo Franco greets Mussolini's newly arrived Ambassador at Salamanca, Insurgent headquarters. Sub. 1 - On many fronts the war goes grimly on - scenes of terror in sectors near Madrid as Government planes rain death on countryside.
05/12/1937 THE SPANISH WAR'S SADDEST DRAMA! An army of children flees burning Bilbao - Neutral ships take 5,000 to French haven as Insurgents batter at gates of Basque capital.
05/31/1937 SPAIN AND GERMANY CLASH IN EUROPE'S GRAVEST WAR CRISIS!
07/14/1937 THE SPANISH WAR'S TRAIL OF TRAGEDY! 600,000 starving refugees jam besieged Santander as Franco's army pounds at city's gates.
07/14/1937 Cuts and Outs. THE SPANISH WAR'S TRAIL OF TRAGEDY! 600,000 starving refugees jam besieged Santander as Franco's army pounds at city's gates.
04/01/1938 FIRST FILMS OF BOMBING OF BARCELONA! Horrifying scenes of destruction in streets of Spanish Loyalists' capital, victim of worst aerial attack by Franco's "eagles" since beginning of the war - the cost, 1,300 civilians killed, 2,000 mangled.
04/01/1938 Cuts and Outs. FIRST FILMS OF BOMBING OF BARCELONA!
04/13/1938 Complete Newsreel. FRANCO PRESSES GREATEST DRIVE TO END SPANISH WAR. Latest films of the struggle show capture of Fraga and Lerida by the insurgents, key cities to their goal - Barcelona. Over the border into France flee thousands of refugees, civilians and troops but the soldiers find no haven there. 4,000 Loyalist militiamen are sent back into Spain. LATEST NEWS SNAPSHOTS. Sub. 1 - SING SING'S GATES CLOSE ON RICHARD WHITNEY -- former Wall Street financier begins serving five to ten year sentence for grand larceny and becomes just No. 94,835. Sub. 2 - STORK SURPRISES BLUE BLOOD POODLE -- dog goes through all the anxieties of a waiting father, in New York canine maternity hospital, and is presented with sextuplets. Sub. 3 - THRILLING RESCUE DRAMA IN NORTH SEA -- Lifeboat crews from liner "Wilhelm Gustloff" battle through mountainous waves and save whole crew of British steamer "Pecaway." HOLY LAND STILL IN TERROR'S GRIP AS EASTER DAWNS -- British patrols are everywhere in Jerusalem, searching all Arabs at Jaffa Gate and even guarding the famous Wailing Wall. Trains are wrecked by desert outlaws, incendiary fires are commonplace as troops strive to stamp out terrorism. Tel-Aviv, typical of the Jewish cities built on sand, flourishes as the youth of an ancient faith march on to build a new nation. THE WOMAN'S PAGE. Conducted by Adelaide Hawley. Sub. 1 - THE FIRST LADY'S EASTER FASHION SELECTIONS MAKE WOMAN'S PAGE HEADLINE NEWS. Mrs. Roosevelt obliges a horde of cameramen to pose in her spring outfits in New York and looks very smart. THE SPORTING PAGE. OXFORD WINS ENGLAND'S ROWING CLASSIC -- Dark Blues repeat last year's victory over Cambridge in grueling rough water struggle in River Thames. BANGTAILS OPEN FIRST SPRING MEET IN EAST -- Race fans head for Bowie, Maryland, as thoroughbreds furnish thrills galore.
07/07/1938 WITH ITALIAN TROOPS IN SPAIN. First pictures from Barcelona front reveal Il Duce's followers fighting for Franco under own flag.
07/07/1938 Cuts and Outs. WITH ITALIAN TROOPS IN SPAIN.
12/13/1938 INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE RETURNS FROM SPAIN, LONDON.
03/29/1939 DAWN OF PEACE IN SPAIN! Thirty-two months of terror in Madrid is ended - and famished populace looks to former foes for bread instead of bullets.
05/24/1939 Cuts and Outs. SPAIN FEEDS STARVED WAR BABIES!


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