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Map of Germany w/ surrounding countries, animation of Siegfried Line aka Westwall & nearby city names added.
01:00:23 Int. CU two German military officers talking, MS looking at map (one has swastika on left arm).
01:00:31 Ext. Two military officer in field, surveying (?). Army officers & civilians look at map in field. CU one viewing thru limiter (similar to slit in pillbox). Others at maps. Three surveying w/ transit. Pound stake & mark corner on hillside.
01:01:17 Int. of engineers office w/ drafting boards.
01:01:23 Workmen leaving building; large group up street, arrive at many buses & boarding. CU two men look out of bus window. Buses w/ Nazi symbol on side leaving w/ signs in windows.
01:01:43 Many workers filling road walking, past barbed wire fence & past Dragon’s Teeth. Large group w/ shovels, others without. Young soldiers (?) w/ shovels marching out of village, up country road & arrive at construction area w/ concrete mixers pulling heavy mixers w/ two ropes.
01:03:09 CU Pile driver pounding steel forms / supports into ground; cutting top even. Men passing reinforcing bars. View of entrance to tunnel & dirt passageway; pan to show concrete reinforcing in place.
01:03:52 Temporary timbers in place & men in distance working.
01:04:04 Ext. Men moving carts of cement on rails from mixers & dumping as men tamp. LS carts up incline & dumped. MCU mixers turning, pouring & filing carts; dumping.
01:04:50 Hosing concrete Dragon’s Teeth, men pouring behind. Men digging / planting trees & brush.
01:05:22 Men bring supplies into underground kitchen & ladling soup (?).
01:05:38 Men washing up, shaving, toilet room. Thru steel door.
01:06:23 Man operating telephone switchboard; another on phone. Interior of underground power plant; CU large engine operating w/ overhead camshaft moving valve lifters. Man operating. Pan long line of small field artillery w/ & w/o barrels.
01:08:06 Stacks of stored barrels & shells. CU tracking past lines of large artillery barrels (?) w/ camouflage paint.
01:08:57 CU sign painted on concrete wall w/ arrows to what is stored where.
01:09:01 Men w/ chain hoists lifting large barrel; men pushing cart w/ shells onto elevator. Barrel seen into place looking out of pillbox; crew inside, barrel pivots in opening and another smaller barrel raises.
01:10:01 German troops w/ rifles marching past pillbox. LS along row of Dragon’s Teeth. Men march into tunnel entrance.

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