Overview
- Description
- Night-time shots of refugees with large packs boarding rubber boats. Crowded onto deck, rushing into hold and covering selves with tarpaulin when British airplane flies overhead. Airplane is an RAF : Lancaster. British warship (destroyer) sited, Brits jump from their decks to refugee ship. English and Hebrew sign "Haganah Ship Unafraid" and "Jewish" flag raised.
- Film Title
-
First Films Aboard an "Illegal Ship"
- Duration
- 00:01:57
- Date
-
Event:
1948 February
Production: 1948 February
- Locale
-
Haifa,
Palestine
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Fox Movietonews
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Newsreels.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 01:17:56:00 to 01:19:53:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 234 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 234 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 234 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 234 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 234 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
Preservation 234 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 234 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 234 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
Preservation 234 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 234 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 234 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
Preservation 234 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 234 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 234 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
Preservation 234 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 234 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- Fox News, Inc.
- Conditions on Use
- Contact Fox News (erica.lopez@fox.com) for permission.
- Copyright Holder
- Fox News, Inc.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from Fox News, Inc. (Fox-Movietone Newsreel) in New York in November 1991. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
- Note
- VHS time codes precede Beta SP time codes above. VHS runs from 01:17:56 to 01:19:53 Beta SP runs from 01:17:30 to 01:19:29
Outtakes of this newsreel are in Story 532, Film ID 234. - Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- Fox News, Inc.
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 906
Source Archive Number: 31/17 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:56:35
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