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Generals Sikorski and Anders review marching troops in Iraq

Film | RG Number: RG-60.0174 | Film ID: 4317

Part of reel 1. A line of people wait for food distribution by the British Military Administration in the administrative division of Tripolitania. They receive canned and dried rations. They appear to be of a variety of ethnicities, identified by the Imperial War Museums catalog record as “Maltese, Indians, Greeks, Jews, and Sudanese.” Another scene shows children receiving bread. One of the distributors wears an armband with a cross on it.


Duration
00:02:08
Date
Production:  1943 March 06
Locale
Iraq
Language
Silent
Genre/Form
Unedited.
Credit
Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Imperial War Museums

About This Film

Contributor
Camera Operator: P A. Barnes
Producer: War Office Film Unit
B&W / Color
Black & White
Image Quality
Good
Film Format
  • Master
    • Master 4317 Digital: ProRes HD HQ 422 - HD
Special Collection
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
In process
Film Provenance
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased digital copies of films from the Imperial War Museums in London in July 2017.
Copied From
35MM
Film Source
Imperial War Museums
File Number
Source Archive Number: AYY 476/2

Rights and Restrictions

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.
 
Record last modified: 2021-06-03 12:47:06
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn594948