Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Atrocities - The Evidence
Series
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- British Movietone News
Issue
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- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 4
- Section Title
- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Atrocities - the Evidence. DESCRIPTION: A British delegation of ten members of Parliament, including Mrs Mavis Tate, saw the indescribable horrors of Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Clare Booth Luce, American Congresswoman, describes what she has seen in the Camps. Typhus and starvation killed over sixty thousand in Belsen and the bodies are piled high awaiting burial. SHOTLIST: Buchenwald Concentration Camp - Car enters. SCU Mrs Mavis Tate and another MP seated in car. Various shots of ten MP’s walking around the camp. Inside hospital talking to the Liberated POWs. Pan of prisoners. Outside trailer loaded with dead bodies. MP’s look at same. Mrs Tate sniffs smelling salts. CU heavy club with which prisoners were beaten to death. Mrs Tate walking with US Officers. Inside shots of furnace where bodies were burned. SCU and CU of parts of bodies inside furnaces. Clare Booth Luce (American Congresswoman) CU talking about Buchenwald, and the atrocities - very impressive interview (At Claridges). Stalag Tekla near Leipzig - Burned bodies and electrocuted bodies lie about camp, many lie under barbed wire. Many charred bodies. Gardelegan - German labour camp - Germans march through streets to camp where Americans put them to work to disinter bodies and give them a decent burial. Various shots of them digging up dead bodies. Belsen Camp - POWs walking amongst the dead. Many of them mere skeletons. Shots of SS men and women who were in charge of the camp. CU of Kramer - Commandant of the camp. Piles of dead bodies lie about the camp. People who are just alive sitting amongst the dead, unconscious of what is going on, one appears to sit down to die. Prisoner - just a skeleton sits down handling garment to end.
- Keywords
- Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Health and medicine; Children; Weapons; Death; War damage; Riots; Prisoners of war; Crime; Military; Funerals
- Footage sources
- APS
- Card file number
- 45699
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Paul Wyand
- Length of story (in feet)
- 313
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