Learning on ScreenMovietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Burning of Belsen
Series
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Section Title
- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Burning of Belsen. DESCRIPTION: More pictures of the atrocity camp at Belsen where people are still dying at a rate of 40 a day. As the huts become vacant they are demolished and burnt to obliterate filth and pestilence. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Pan of camp before burning. German soldiers carry out dead in blankets under guard of British soldiers. At mass grave same placed in grave; sermon read by Jewish & Church of England chaplains. British soldiers stand in group by grave side bareheaded. German fill in grave. Huts being knocked down by bulldozers. Wasps flame-throwers directing flames at demolished huts, various shots of camp aflame. GV of fire with Union Jack on left. In Minden, crowds of German civilians lined up, having been compelled, to see the atrocity films, crowds entering & leaving cinema.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Mass media; Vehicles; Health and medicine; Death; Prisoners of war; Engineering; Military; Funerals; Religion and belief
- Footage sources
- British Paramount
Pathe
Royal Air Force Film Unit [RAFFU]
- Card file number
- 45804
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 143
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