https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/f062f50d-f9ef-47ed-ae7c-5a619267cd79 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Part 1: https://youtu.be/EFY4aiC3joc "The Spanish Earth" is a 1937 anti-fascist film created to detail the struggle of the Republic against the rebellious ultra-right wing Francisco Franco. This is part two. The film begins with a small black police car (:08). A body lay under a sheet on the side of the road (:15). Cops check his belongings (:20) and cart the body off for the morgue (:25). Civilians are ordered to evacuate from Madrid (:32). Faces clog the sidewalks (:36). Refugees cart out bedframes (1:00). Nearly a million refugees remained in the wake of war. Civilians wait in line for foods supplies (1:13). Posters of the Junta de Defensa encourage evacuation (1:35). Youth sit atop a stone wall (2:21). New recruits run across snowy grounds (2:31). Civilians appear hardened, lining the roads in front of the Madrid's national train line station (2:37). Crowds applaud in Valencia (2:56) as the president (3:04) Manuel Azana holds assembly.  Forces discuss defenses and crop production of Madrid (3:42). A typist records (3:49). Harvested crops are drug in on a wagon (4:12). The Spanish continue to rebuild walls (4:30). Roofers rethatch a farm roof (4:52). An irrigation channel is cut into dirt (5:16). A soldier known as Julian leaps from the back of an empty truck (5:52). His letter, written from the war front appears (5:58). Faces of the locals pass before the screen (7:36). Julian leads the village boys in a drill (7:46). Freshly armed and black jacketed troops march with rifle butts (8:38). 'Shock battalion' (9:08) is mentioned, often these ill equipped forces with little training experienced intense punishment upon capture by the highly trained fascist forces. Lovers part (9:26) as trucks haul off troops for battle. Walls appear riddled with cannon holes (10:11). Civilians run through streets (10:18), sirens ring out as ambulances arrive to collect the dead (10:20). Combat erupts and glass cracks (10:37). Ambulances scream in (10:47). Civilians sprint across open ground (10:54). Youth sort through the rubble (11:18) for shell fragments. Black smoke runs from a building hit (11:23). Two boys lay flat on the ground struck by a shell (11:30). German artillery is mentioned as the Nazi controlled country supported Franco’s war even authorizing the deployment German submarines (11:34). The boys lay face down (11:41), glass from shattered windows sprinkled about. Fighter planes buzz, hunting for targets (12:01). A woman slips from her home (13:05), her children peer through the window. Wounded and mangled dead lay on their backs (13:28). Survivors look over the bodies (13:36). Building walls are riddled with holes (14:06). A Junkers pursuit plane is hit and runs to the ground (14:24). German writing appears on decimated plane parts (14:33). German tags are photographed (14:40). Foreign bodies appear in a heap (14:56). A map notes an attack by rebel forces on the Madrid Valencia Road (15:21). Rebels crossed the Jarama (15:26). Villagers continue to work to build the irrigation canal (16:09). Drums beat and a horn blows (17:18) as the Spanish Republic army marches. Forces land at Valencia road (18:13). Troops unload (18:59) from open trucks with supplies. Gunners hang from T-26 tank hatches (19:32). These were the most widely used tanks for this war; both sides drove the metal beasts. Infantry men and assault forces (20:22) drive forward. Shells scream (21:20). Small groups cross open lands (21:49). Wounded are carted on litter next to the convoy (22:15). Medics tend to them (22:39). A wounded soldier smiles from his back (23:16). The counter attack is noted to have been successful as the roadway opens and the bridge is captured (24:29). Water pushes through the dirt canal (25:05). Militia men are shown to be hardened soldiers from the battle (25:50). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. 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