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A relative abundance of footage from Belgium in the early months of the war led Topical Budget (and its rival newsreels) to produce a supplementary series of longer newsfilms, of which this record of the German occupation of Louvain is the most striking. The film is most likely to have been taken by an American cameraman and sold on to Topical.
The film employs some sly juxtaposition of images (note in particular the train with waving soldiers passing by to reveal the destruction they have left behind), and gives a palpable sense of the shock of invasion.
Luke McKernan
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Complete Film (9:07)
