Title:ALLIED MILITARY GOVERNMENT FOR OCCUPIED TERRITORIES [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 204
Other titles:REFUGEES AND RELIEF SUPPLIES IN SOUTHERN ITALY AFTER LIBERATION [Alternative Title]
Summary: Unedited scenes filmed in Southern Italy in cold weather (January 1944 ?) by British Army Film Unit (AFU) cameramen for "Production 60" cover collaborators clearing up under Allied supervision in a small port area and refugees returning to their (unidentified) bombed locality.
Description: Reel 1: Well dressed civilians in warm coats (presumed to be collaborators) stand on the quayside of a small port in the Mediterranean, watched or guarded by a Royal Navy officer and his US counterpart. After lining up they pick up brooms and buckets to wash down streets and gather up ashes from a pile of burnt rubbish. [ Editor's red Chinagraph - AMGOT Schooner] [Slate Scene 4 Take 2] Supplies loaded into sacks for transport by boat (relief supplies?) 203 ft
Reel 2: US Army soldier stands with Italian priest beside a shelled building. [Prod 60 Slate - Scene 16 take 1] US soldiers walk through ruins (for the camera) of severely damaged buildings. British soldier holds up a camera slate. US jeep marked AMG (Allied Military Government) climbs steep twisting road. [Slate - Army Film Unit Prod No 60 Scene 24 Take 3] Italian women waiting outside; one nurses a baby, others wash clothes in a river. British Army Royal Engineer holds slate for cameraman: Job 60 A645 Can 13: damaged machinery inside a bombed factory. Scenes 12, 13 and 14. Soldier wih AFU shoulder flash. Italian refugees pass through bomb damage. [Editor's Chinagraph - Refugees returning] Refugees carrying their belongings pass by. Scene 33 - British Army officer holds slate. Electricity power station and pylons (presumably denoting future return to normality).
Alternative Title:REFUGEES AND RELIEF SUPPLIES IN SOUTHERN ITALY AFTER LIBERATION [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:MGH 204
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1944-01
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
