Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY ALARIC ROWNTREE [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur film with titles shot by Alaric Rowntree, while serving as Director of the Food Division in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation (UNRRA) Mission to Greece, records landscape, ancient monuments, ancient agricultural traditions of country and evidence (limited) of UNRRA assistance, including re-opening of Halkis to Athens Railway on 10 February 1946 (destroyed by retreating Germans), underfed children and displaced persons in DP camp. End shows Rowntree's return to UK via Cairo (sites of Egypt in colour), Jerusalem to Cairo train held up by terrorists (Jewish) in Palestine, Port Said and Rome.
Description:
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY ALARIC ROWNTREE [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W (part Colour [Kodachrome])
Digitised:No
Object_Number:MGH 5095
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1945
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Rowntree, Alaric W (Production individual)
