Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Refugee Emigrants Reach Palestine

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

918

Date Released

6 Jan 1947

Date submitted

2 Jan 1947

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Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Section Title

Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Legal Immigrants to Palestine. DESCRIPTION: The first permitted pictures of Jewish refugees on their way from Cyprus to Palestine. SHOTLIST: KS GV Jew marching through camp. Various shots of Jews in barbed wire camp. CU types behind barbed wire. Immigrants in small landing craft being taken out to Ocean Vigour approaching ship. CU - SV of man looking out and pointing to sea. LS of Haifa, ship entering harbour, immigrants disembark. CU types, also sick being slung overboard in stretchers, and placed in ambulances. CU types. In camp, immigrants walk about guarded by Australian soldier. CU types against barbed wire. CU girl and of her arm with concentration camp number burned on her arm. GV immigrants.

Keywords

Displaced persons

Footage sources

Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer

Card file number

47965

Credits:

Camera: David Prosser
Commentator: Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

137

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