WHITTINGEHAME HOUSE AND JEWISH KINDERTRANSPORT REFUGEES AT WHITTINGEHAME FARM SCHOOL [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: WHITTINGEHAME HOUSE AND JEWISH KINDERTRANSPORT REFUGEES AT WHITTINGEHAME FARM SCHOOL [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 5135
  • Other titles: AMATEUR FILM [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: Amateur film with titles shot by schoolteacher (unidentified) records the flowers and trees in the grounds of Whittingehame House (the home of Lord Balfour/Viscount Traprain at Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland) from summer to winter, and includes brief views of several of the Kindertransport Jewish agricultural trainees (girls on foot, boys on skis) from Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia who, under the auspices of Youth-Aliya, attended the Whittingehame Farm School prior to intended emigration to Palestine and the Colonies.
  • Description:
  • Alternative Title: AMATEUR FILM [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: MGH 5135
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (MGH 5135)
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1939
  • Production Country: GB
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 251 ft; Running time: 10 mins (16 fps)
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    MGH 5135

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    ACQ1/FILM/ACT/023 (Tully-Jackson, J)
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