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13170_5048_mussolini_boarding
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1940s
B&W

Newsreel detailing Mussolini’s return to Italy and death at end of WWII.Medium shot of Hitler walking out a door. Cut to medium shot of Mussolini walking down a hallways with others around him. Close up of Nazi flags on Mercedes being driven. Cut to long shot of car driving across and then away from screen. Cut to long shot of car driving towards camera on some sort of dock. The door opens, a soldier then Mussolini step out of the car. Mussolini waves to a bystander and shakes hands with a soldier. Cut to medium shot of Hitler and Mussolini shaking hands and saluting. Camera follows Mussolini as he steps up onto the plane. Medium shot of a soldier from behind saluting the plane. Narrator details Mussolini and Hitler’s deaths. Cut to large crowd in a public square in Milan panning to a pile of corpses on which Mussolini’s dead body is displayed. The narrator notes how members of crowd were spitting on and cursing his dead body. Medium and then close up shots of his cadaver in the square on top of other bodies. Cut to shot of the crowd taking up the entire frame. Then a long shot of a dead body being hung up by the feet next to another. Cut to a medium-close up shot of a couple people in the crowd looking at the display before them. Closing of newsreel contains long, exterior shot of an edifice and cuts to the interior where a man works at a control panel.