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Prisoner Exchange Speeds Up

Date released

17 Aug 1953

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2344

NoS ID

044543

Story no

1 / 7

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

United Nations troops, including a few British, arrive at exchange centre. Returning Reds tear prison camp clothing as final gesture.

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Back to Blighty

Date released

30 Oct 1944

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

44/87

NoS ID

100526

Story no

2 / 4

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

British soldiers of the 8th Army arrive back in this country aboard troopship, most of them having come from Switzerland after escaping from Italian prison camps. They board train after being given...

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A New Borstal

Date released

6 Nov 1958

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

58/89

NoS ID

108383

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

New prison is used as Borstal Institution in Yorkshire.

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Civil War in Athens

Date released

1 Jan 1945

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

45/1

NoS ID

100593

Story no

3 / 4

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Urgently needed supplies arrive in the port of Piraeus as promised by Mr Churchill. Meanwhile in the city itself, men of a British Airborne Unit fire down into the streets to prevent movement of ELAS forces....

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America: Riot in State Prison

Date released

30 Sep 1954

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

2164

NoS ID

071882

Story no

1 / 10

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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Four Hundred Come Home From Russia

Date released

5 Sep 1949

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

49/71

NoS ID

103083

Story no

2 / 5

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

A lost legion - a trainload of Austrian prisoners-of-war - comes home to Vienna from Soviet prison camps.

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Refugees from France Arrive at Casablanca

Date released

29 Nov 1943

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

43/95

NoS ID

100190

Story no

3 / 4

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Some 1700 refugees from France arrive in Casablanca. Latterly they have been kept in prison in Spain but are now free and are welcomed by General Cornet and given refreshments by French Red Cross.

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Axis Agents Leave Iran

Date released

6 Nov 1941

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

41/89

NoS ID

099116

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

In a prison camp at Basra are Axis agents who have been thrown out of Iran, and at a port on the Persian Gulf about 600 Germans and Italians are about to be shipped out of the country.

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The Mighty Fallen

Date released

25 Sep 1944

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

44/77

NoS ID

100489

Story no

1 / 3

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

The surrender of Major-General Elser and twenty thousand German troops near Orleans, to American soldiers. Major General Elser gives up his revolver and is permitted to shake hands with his men before they...

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Freedom Comes to Allied Prisoners

Date released

15 Sep 1941

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1100

NoS ID

037963

Story no

1 / 6

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

British troops return to Syria from prison in France. General Dentz’s release follows. Two hundred French soldiers who escaped from Germany reach London.

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