Stalingrad After World War II (1947) | British Pathé

This archive footage from 1947 depicts the aftermath of World War II in Stalingrad, Russia as German POWs assist in the rebuilding of the city, while Russian children dance amongst the rubble. #BritishPathé #History #War #Stalingrad #WWII Subscribe to the British Pathé YT Channel: (FILM ID:) Unused / unissued footage - dates and locations may be unknown or unclear. Stalingrad (Volgograd Oblast), Russia - April 1947. Stalingrad, scene of the wars greatest siege, begins to rebuild. M/S Statuary, depicting ring of children dancing, contrasts strangely with the devastation in the background. People walking along the streets amid rubble. M/Ss of families at the entrance to their cave homes. C/U of head of a small Russian boy wrapped in a shawl. M/Ss of war correspondents walking round the city. A camel draws a peasant and his heavily laden cart. German POWs walking along street and at work, busy repairing roads and clearing rubble. C/Us of POWs looking sullen. People and children amongst ruins. C/Us of Russian children. Russian children skipping amid flattened ruins. New workers flats just seen in background. War correspondent walks about a rebuilt tractor factory. Women seen at work in the factory. Several shots of a busy market scene, with Russian housewives buying from stalls. Several C/Us of people at the market, including a nice shot of an old man with a long white beard and Cossack hat. BRITISH PATHÉ’S STORY Before television, people came to movie theatres to watch the news. British Pathé was at the forefront of cinematic journalism, blending information with entertainment to popular effect. Over the course of a century, it documented everything from major armed conflicts and seismic political crises to the curious hobbies and eccentric lives of ordinary people. If it happened, British Pathé filmed it. Now considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world, British Pathé is a treasure trove of 85,000 films unrivalled in their historical and cultural significance. British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.