Summary: Unedited film showing a British ambulance damaged by enemy action and sick children in Belsen.
Description: START 10:21:09 Shots filmed in Belsen No. 2 Camp (the panzer training school) showing an ambulance driver from 11th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), pointing out to a medical orderly dressed head to foot in decontamination overalls the two perforations in his Humber light ambulance (registration A 1219248) made by 3cm (?) cannon fire from a Luftwaffe fighter-bomber during an air raid on No. 2 Camp at dawn on 20th April 1945. There is one penetration on the Red Cross marking on the left hand side of the ambulance; the other is at the rear on the left hand door panel.
10:21:28 A sequence showing Hungarian soldiers wearing white armbands on the left sleeve of their tunics busy digging a mass grave with spades in the compound at the western end of Belsen Camp No. 1.
10:22:03 Out of focus interior shots in natural light of sick children - all typhus victims - lying in beds inside one of the huts in No. 1 Camp. Two boys stare silently at the camera. A comb is used on the hair of a young girl. A toddler being carried by a nurse holds his hand in his mouth and cries. Scissors are used to cut the hair of a child.
10:23:25 A boy has his left forearm bandaged by a nurse - the camera focus is set on the nurse, not the boy.
END 10:23:45
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Lewis, C M (Production individual)
