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

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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'Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Refugee Emigrants Reach Palestine', British Movietone News Issue No. 918, 6 Jan 1947. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/14233 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)