Overview
- Description
- CU, British soldier. Three young women with armbands walk through camp gate (guarded by British). Sign by gate "Dust Spreads Typhus 5 MPH." CU, two soldiers and two women: "One woman has travelled from Osnabruck to enquire after her husband who she believes has been interned in Belsen". MCU as captain uses DDT duster on companion outside "Dusting Room." In FG, two men sleeping by roadside. Ambulances pass. Rear shot of Sgt. Oakes of Army Film Unit talking to two Hungarian Jewish women, sitting by barbed wire and cooking lunch. Same survivors with soldier (now crouched down) with bowls of soup, intimate composition. Long row of women at communal taps, all scrubbing, cleaning clothes, filling buckets. Bucolic, springtime farming scene: cows, cottages, flowering trees, sunshine streaming through. House in Belsen village. MS of local hausfrau sitting with two children in garden, plays with her baby while young girl plays with a ball.
- Duration
- 00:03:35
- Date
-
Event:
1945 April 24
- Locale
-
Bergen-Belsen,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Imperial War Museums
- Contributor
-
Camera Operator:
Michael Lewis
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 17:06:22:00 to 17:09:57:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 10 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 10 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 10 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 10 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 10 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 10 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 10 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 10 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Imperial War Museums
- Conditions on Use
- For licensing enquiries and requests, contact Imperial War Museums (IWM) at filmcommercial@iwm.org.uk. IWM also offers limited services for non-commercial parties, such as for museums, armed forces, veterans and their immediate family, family history researchers, and students. For such purposes, contact film@iwm.org.uk.
- Copyright Holder
- Imperial War Museums
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- BARBED WIRE BERGEN-BELSEN CAMERAS CHILDREN CLOTHES CONCENTRATION CAMPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) COWS DISINFECTION EATING FARMERS/FARMING FLOWERS FOOD GATES GERMANS GERMANY INTERVIEWS JEWS LIBERATION MILITARY OFFICERS RED CROSS SIGNS/POSTERS SOLDIERS/MILITARY SOLDIERS/MILITARY (BRITISH) SOUP SURVIVORS SURVIVORS (JEWISH) TRUCKS TYPHUS UNIFORMS WOMEN
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection of film segments about the liberation of Belsen from the Imperial War Museum in London in March 1991.
- Copied From
- 35mm positive b/w
- Film Source
- Imperial War Museums
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 203
Source Archive Number: A700/311/1-2 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:59:35
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1000232
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