THE BIG PICTURE BATTLE OF NORTH AFRICA WORLD WAR II ORAN TO EL ALAMEIN (PART 1) 81574

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website A 1960 black and white episode (#484) of the TV series “The Big Picture.” This, the first of two installments on the North African campaign of World War II, utilizes newsreel footage to illustrate the Western Desert campaign and the Battle of El Alamein (TRT 28:38). Title card: “Oran July 1940” over battleships at sea (0:21). French sailors in navy caps run across a dock. Battleships fire. Explosions in the water. A cannonade. Montage of naval combat (0:27). Frenchmen working on the smoky docks. Cannonfire and a tower of smoke over a destroyed Vichy battleship (0:42). Opening credits. A white streak of light orbits a spinning globe. Titles: “The Big Picture” (1:19). A large truck is unloaded from a ship. A tightly packed assembly of tanks (1:49). A canon is unloaded, followed by a tank (2:03). Continuous track tanks roll through the mud. Italian trucks in the deser