Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:
Description:Panning shot from a drawing of a tank on the wall, signed and dated 1944, to a young woman lying in a hospital bed. A hand chalks FULL on a blackboard. Soldiers carry a person on a stretcher out of an ambulance and into the hospital block. More stretchers are carried out of an ambulance. A sign reading CONTAMINATED. Close up of a British Red Cross badge on the arm of the ambulance driver, Miss Russell Smith, of the British Red Cross & Civilian Relief team. Miss Smith gets into the ambulance and drives off. Soldiers and medical staff unload people on stretchers from an ambulance, including a smiling woman, near a sign warning Typhus. People on stretchers are loaded into an ambulance and the doors are closed. The ambulance drives off.
Men carrying suitcases and bags board trucks to be evacuated from the camp. The men are French, Polish, Russian and other nationalities One man waves a flag. Men wave from the back of a truck as it drives off. A soldier shakes hands with a man waiting in a group. The truck passes a sign for Evacuation. Two men (identified in the dope sheet as BLA drivers) dance in front of a crowd as a trumpeter and an accordionist play impromptu on a truck. View of the accordion player and trumpeter playing on the truck. The two men dancing as an appreciative crowd stand and watch. View of men watching. A man wearing a beret sings beside a flag. Men watch and applaud.
General views of the camp on the tenth day of British occupation. Long shot of people outside huts and washing drying on fences. Various long shots showing the camp and people walking through it, many in striped uniforms. Shot of a woman lying on the grass near a pile of discarded camp uniforms. Shot from above of people gathered by a fence. Further general scenes of people in the camp. Women walking through trees, some arm-in arm. A group of people sitting on the ground and cooking over a fire. Further scenes of people win the camp walking past buildings, tents and fences and past piles of rubbish. People cooking an evening meal. Two women sort through a swill bin of potato peelings from the cookhouse, looking for scraps. Further shots of women looking through the scraps. People trying to reach scraps through a fence as two soldiers move the scraps with their feet to move them closer. Close up of hands picking through food scraps and putting them in a jug.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:A70 311/4-5
Sound:
Access Conditions:IWM
Film: IWM (A70 311/4-5)
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1945-04-25-1945-04-26
Production Country:
Production Details:War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Lawrie, William Fairlie (Production individual)
