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Belsen Concentration Camp: survivors and burial

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1991.251.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0048 | Film ID: 7

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    Belsen Concentration Camp: survivors and burial

    Overview

    Description
    Low pile of naked corpses. In BG, survivors busy, smoke, trees. SS men march through the frame. More captured Germans enter gate. LS German soldiers unloading trucks (out of focus). From above, large crowd of female survivors, some smile at the camera for group portrait. MS of women sitting in compound, behind them is pile of boots and shoes, one woman takes some from the pile. VAR MLS of women hanging around, eating. More shots of corpses, mangled face, eye sockets; VCU, face of female, hollowed, glassy eyed. LS, wall, edge of pit, 10 feet down, shadows into pit. People looking down into it, bodies, limbs, ribs, male corpse. Soldiers and women at "canteen" / water truck, British soldiers smile into camera as they fill buckets brought by women prisoners. MCUs of men through barbed wire eating soup and bread. British soldier distributes food with former prisoners. Prisoner cuts of fragment of bread for companion. Young man sitting in hay, idly scratches neck. LS, one man picks his way through field of bodies/clothes. Nazis, including a man in a white coat, standing under guard, British frisk SS men. Female guards leaving building, boots, marching, stout. Lined up men march past camera, women follow. SS men pick up corpses from where they lie in a row on the ground. MCU as SS men load female corpses onto lorry. British troops stand in circle in background, holding rifles. CU, Nazis standing in truck with corpses, almost stonefaced, dropping bodies from edge of pit. Background of one shot shows Army photographer. Cut to line of British Army vehicles going down camp road. MCU as SS men push stalled lorry along, urged by British soldiers. SS unload more corpses. MS, women stand together watching the burial detail. MS as crowd shakes their fists at passing burial lorry.
    Duration
    00:10:02
    Date
    Event:  1945 April 17
    Locale
    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
    Mixed
    Time Code
    15:20:10:00 to 15:30:12:00
    Film Format
    • Master
      • Master 7 Video: One Inch - NTSC
      Master 7 Video: One Inch - NTSC
      Master 7 Video: One Inch - NTSC
      Master 7 Video: One Inch - NTSC
    • Preservation
      • Preservation 7 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 7 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
      Preservation 7 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
      Preservation 7 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 7 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
      Preservation 7 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
      Preservation 7 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 7 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
      Preservation 7 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
      Preservation 7 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 7 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
      Preservation 7 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small

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    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

    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.
    Note
    For some duplicate (although poorer quality) footage, see Stories 2644, 2646, 2648, and 2654 on Film ID 165.
    Copied From
    35mm positive b/w
    Film Source
    Imperial War Museums
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 192
    Source Archive Number: A700/304/3
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:56:56
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